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Tractor Field

Plough a whole field with a tractor on a tank of fuel that is only just enough. Lower the plough, drive in lanes, and plan your turns, because ploughing ground twice wastes fuel and the tractor needs room to turn round. Six fields from a plain rectangle to odd shapes.

Tractor Field

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How to play

  1. Drive the tractor with the arrow keys or the on-screen buttons. Press Space (or the spanner button) to lower the plough, shown as a dashed box behind the tractor, and drive along the field. Ploughed ground turns dark brown.
  2. At the end of a lane, lift the plough, turn round beyond the edge of the field and come back along another lane. A tractor turns in a wide circle, so you may need to skip a lane or two and come back for them.
  3. Plough at least 95 per cent of the field before the fuel or the time runs out. Ground ploughed twice counts as wasted work and lowers your efficiency score.

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

Tips and strategy

  • Count the lanes first. The plough is wider than the tractor, so the field is only a handful of lanes across, and the order you take them in decides how many tight turns you make.
  • The turning circle in the science panel tells you how many lanes to skip: if it is wider than two plough widths, take every second lane and come back along the others.
  • Leave a little overlap between neighbouring lanes so no strip is missed, but not so much that you plough the same ground twice.

FAQ

Why can't I just plough lane after lane next to each other?
A tractor needs a circle of its own turning radius, twice over, to turn round. If the next lane is closer than that, it cannot turn into it in one go. Skipping lanes gives it the room, and that is why real farmers plough in patterns.
How is efficiency measured?
As the share of all the ploughing you did that was needed. Every time the plough moves onto ground that is already finished, it counts as a repeat and lowers the share.

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