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Circle Car: your first five minutes

A one-button timing game. Cars already circle a small roundabout, your cars wait in a queue on the entry road, and each click sends the next one in.

Made by

Not credited in the game

You play with

One click or tap

One go lasts

One queue of cars, no clock

How far we got

Levels 3 and 4

Play Circle Car free on Mava Games

What you actually control

You never steer, brake or accelerate.

Minute by minute

Minute 1. Do nothing. Watch the loop go round once. The traffic was moving before you arrived and your queue is standing still.

Minute 2. Drag the screen until you can see the stretch of road just before the entrance. That is where gaps come from.

Minute 3. Send a car as the tail of a bunch passes the entrance. On level 3 the six red cars travelled in two groups of three with long empty stretches between them.

Minutes 4 and 5. Keep going until the queue is empty. The number painted in the middle of the roundabout is the level, and it goes up when you clear one.

The mistake that ends first runs

Forgetting that your own cars stay on the loop. Every car you send keeps circling with the others, so each gap is a little shorter than the last. By the end of level 4 we counted nine cars going round at once.

Good to know

• Your queue has its own colour: green on level 3, blue on level 4. Count your colour on the loop to see how far you have got.
• The three circles at the top fill with yellow as the level goes on. The game does not label them.
• We saw no timer, so there is no reason to rush the first send.

Skip it if

You hoped to drive laps. The real rule behind the game, give way to traffic on the roundabout, is all there is. For a slower puzzle about cars leaving instead of joining, see Bus Parking Out.

That is the short version. The long one, with every screen we saw and the questions people ask about it, is in our Circle Car page.