Games Like Connect Tracks: The Same Puzzle, Plus Alternatives You Can Play Free

Connect Tracks is Train Tracks

Connect Tracks, an iOS app from Oakever Games, describes itself as a logic puzzle built around the classic train tracks puzzle. That's the same puzzle this site is about: lay a single connected railway across a grid so that the number beside each row and column matches the count of track squares in it. The track can't fork, cross itself or leave a loose end.

Because it's the same puzzle, everything you've learned carries over. The solving method, from crossing out zeros to using the border rule and dead ends, works identically. The step-by-step guide and the full rules apply to Connect Tracks boards as they do here.

Play the same puzzle free in your browser

You can play Train Tracks free online, with no download and no account. There are three sizes: Easy 5×5, Medium 7×7 and Hard 9×9. It runs on phones, tablets and computers.

It also adds something an offline app can't: a Daily puzzle. Everyone gets the same board each day, resetting at midnight UTC, with a leaderboard of fastest times and a spoiler-free result you can share with friends.

Stuck on a Connect Tracks board?

Use the Train Tracks solver, which also works as a Connect Tracks solver. Enter the grid size, the row and column numbers, the start and end points and any pieces already placed, and it finds the track. It handles grids from 4×4 to 9×9, so it won't cover the largest boards in an app that goes up to 12×12.

If you'd rather learn than look up the answer, the strategy guide covers the seven techniques that unblock harder boards, and the common mistakes guide explains where lives are usually lost.

How Connect Tracks and this site differ

The puzzle is the same, but the way you play it differs.

• Platform: Connect Tracks is a free app for Apple devices that can be played offline. This is a website that works in any browser.
• Size: Connect Tracks lists boards from 4×4 up to 12×12. Here the boards are 5×5, 7×7 and 9×9.
• Pressure: Connect Tracks lists three allowed mistakes and no timers. Here lives depend on size (five, four or three), and the Daily is ranked on time.
• Social: Here there's a Daily leaderboard and shareable results with a challenge link, so a friend can try your exact board.

Other games like Connect Tracks

If you want more of the same, these are the closest options. Details are from their store listings and can change.

• Train Tracks Puzzle by Aliaksandr Uvarau: a free iOS app with thousands of levels, undo and hints, based on connecting point A to point B with no loops or crossings.
• Train Track Puzzle: Rail Maze by Craox Technologies: a free iOS app with in-app purchases, with colourful 3D rail mazes.
• Tracks in Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection: a free, open-source version with several sizes and difficulty levels, on many platforms.
• Logic Puzzles: our sister app, with Train Tracks and 16 other logic puzzles on iPhone and iPad.

If you like Train Tracks, try these puzzles

Train Tracks sits in the family of path and edge-clue logic puzzles. If you enjoy it, Nonograms use edge counts to reveal a picture, and Sudoku is the classic number-placement puzzle. The comparison guide explains how each differs and who they suit.

Frequently asked questions

References

1. Connect Tracks: Logic Puzzle (App Store): The app's own description: a logic puzzle built around the classic train tracks puzzle.
2. Train Tracks Puzzle (App Store): Another Train Tracks app, with levels, undo and hints.
3. Train Track Puzzle: Rail Maze (App Store): A rail puzzle app with 3D rail mazes.
4. Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection: Tracks: The open-source Tracks puzzle and its rules.