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Car Carrier Deck

Load a car transporter with its cars in the right order. Each deck fills from the front and empties from the rear, so the last car on is the first off, and every car is going to a different stop. Tall cars can only go on the lower deck, the upper deck has a weight limit, and the whole load has to balance. Six loads that get bigger and trickier.

Car Carrier Deck

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How to play

  1. Cars wait in a queue at the bottom of the screen, each marked with the number of its stop and its weight. Drive the next car onto the lower deck or the upper deck with the buttons (keys 1 and 2). It parks behind the cars already there.
  2. At each stop, the cars for that stop must leave from the rear. A car for stop 1 stuck under a car for stop 3 has to have that car shunted out and back, which costs points, so put the cars for the later stops in first.
  3. Tall cars fit only on the lower deck, the upper deck can carry only the weight shown, and the load must be balanced before you can depart. You can leave a car behind or take the last car off again, but both cost you something.

Controls: mouse, touch or keyboard. Made by CalcoTools.

Tips and strategy

  • Look at the whole queue before you drive the first car on. The order the cars come in decides which deck each one can go to without a shunt.
  • Put cars for the last stop at the front of a deck, and keep the heavy ones low and near the middle for balance.
  • If the load is unbalanced you cannot depart. Taking off the last car and loading it on the other deck is usually the quickest fix.

FAQ

Why is the last car on the first off?
Cars drive on and off through the one ramp at the rear, so each deck works like a stack: you can only reach the car nearest the ramp. Planners on real car carriers solve exactly this puzzle before every voyage.
Why does balance matter?
A transporter carries its load over its axles. If too much of the weight is at the rear or the front, an axle is overloaded and the steering or braking suffers, so the load has to be centred.

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