Light Train

Tap left, middle or right to choose a track; your train moves one track toward it per beat, so crossing from one side to the other takes two beats. Ride over light beads to add cars and drive through a station to turn them into points. Dark blocks empty your train and put out a lamp; reach the last station before all your lamps go out.

Yes, Light Train is free and plays right in your browser with nothing to download or install. There are no purchases and no account to create; new lines and train colors open by playing, never by paying.

Yes — Light Train is made for phones held upright, and you play with one thumb by tapping the track you want. Phone landscape works too. On a computer the same phone-shaped screen plays with a mouse or the keyboard: ← → or A D move one track, 1 2 3 pick a track, Esc or P pauses.

Your tap came just after that beat had already been settled, so the game moved you on the following beat instead. The tap isn't lost — it's just one beat later. Tap a little before the beat when you need to dodge; any tap before the beat is on time.

No — any tap before the beat moves your train in time, so you can dodge as early as you like. Tapping right on the beat, when the rings on the tracks pulse, only matters as you move onto a light bead: then that bead adds 2 cars instead of 1.

Nothing is lost when you miss a station: your cars stay on the train and you can deliver them at the next station. The last station of every line covers all three tracks, so any cars you still carry there are always delivered — as long as you don't crash on the way.

Take a gold bead when your train is short and leave it when your train is long. Gold gives 150 points at once and a later crash doesn't take them back, but it sits in a pocket whose way out is shut about one time in three, and a crash there empties your train. The two tracks beside the gold bead are always clear.

Only a regular 3-lamp Local or Express ride that reaches the last station adds stars to your total. Arriving earns ★, and reaching the line's two score marks earns ★★ and ★★★. A derail earns no stars or best score. The Daily Line gives no stars, and a 4-lamp arrival shows ★ without adding stars or setting a best score.

Deliver long trains instead of many short ones, because each car is worth more as the train grows: 20 cars deliver 600 points, while four deliveries of 5 cars give 300. Add on-beat catches for extra cars, take gold only while your train is short, and check the result screen — it tells you how many points you need for the next star.

Reach the last station of a line once to open the next one. Reaching it on a regular 3-lamp ride also opens that line's Express mode, the same line 20% faster with its own stars and best score. The Daily Line opens once you reach the end of Lantern Line, the second line.

Yes — after three derails in a row on the same line, the result screen offers to start that line with 4 lamps instead of 3. Arriving that way still opens the next line, but it doesn't add stars to your total or set a best score. You can turn this offer off in Settings.

Your progress is saved automatically on this device, in this browser, and no account is needed. Lines, stars, best scores, train colors and settings are kept there; another browser, a private window or clearing the site's data starts fresh.