🚕 Rush Hour Guide
Rush Hour is Mintford's reflex district: evening traffic pours down four lanes and you are one little blue cab weaving through it. Every second survived is fare money. Runs are short, deaths are your own fault, and the leaderboard is unforgiving.
| Cab Driver rank | Best score |
|---|---|
| 🚖 Rookie Driver | 100 |
| 🚖 Gold Driver | 500 |
| 🚖 King of the Road | 1,500 |
How the game works
Cars spawn above the screen and fall down the lanes at increasing speed. Move your cab with your pointer or finger; touching any car ends the run. The longer you survive, the faster and denser traffic becomes — and the faster your fare meter climbs, because score accrues with both time and speed.
Controls
Desktop: move the mouse — the cab follows your pointer with a little smoothing. Mobile: drag your thumb; the cab follows below your finger so it's never hidden. After a crash, tap to start again.
Scoring and the Cab Driver career
Fares accrue continuously, so your score is essentially survival time with a speed multiplier. The career tiers are 100 (Rookie Driver), 500 (Gold Driver) and 1,500 (King of the Road). Because difficulty ramps forever, every King-of-the-Road run eventually ends — the rank just means yours ended later than almost everyone else's.
Beginner mistakes
- Watching your own cab. Watch the traffic above you; your cab knows where it is. Your eyes should live two rows up.
- Hugging the screen edge. Edges feel safe but get pinched from one side with no escape room.
- Overcorrecting. The cab moves smoothly — small pointer nudges beat full-screen flicks.
- Playing tense. Past 300 fares, deaths come from stiff hands, not from traffic.
Advanced strategy
- Ride the seams. The boundaries between lanes usually give you diagonal escape routes that lane centres don't.
- Move before you must. Great runs look lazy: small, early slides that are always between cars rather than dodging them.
- Read spawn rhythm. Spawns come in steady beats; count them and glide between waves instead of reacting car by car.
- Accept the crash. At King-of-the-Road speeds you will eventually get clipped. Staying loose after near-misses is what stretches the inevitable end by another 200 fares.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does the cab follow my finger exactly?
There's deliberate smoothing on both mouse and touch — the cab eases toward your pointer. Flick, then let it settle; don't drag continuously at high speed.
How is score calculated?
Fares accrue over time with a multiplier that grows as traffic speeds up, so late-game seconds are worth much more than early ones.
What's a respectable first score?
100 fares earns Rookie Driver in your first sitting. 500 means you've genuinely learned to read traffic; 1,500 is leaderboard-material.
Is the spawn pattern random?
Spawn positions are random but timing is rhythmic, which is why experienced drivers seem to 'dance' — they're moving with the beat, not the cars.