How do you play Parking Escape?
The 6x6 lot is jammed with cars. Slide them back and forth to clear a lane, then drive the red car out the exit on the right to win. Cars cannot turn or be lifted out. They only move in the direction they face.
There are 183 levels across four difficulties: Easy, Medium, Hard and Expert. Every level shows the fewest moves it can be solved in.
How do the cars move?
| Horizontal cars | Slide left and right only. |
|---|---|
| Vertical cars | Slide up and down only. |
| Cars and trucks | Cars take two spaces, trucks take three. Long trucks are what make a lot hard. |
| One move | Sliding one vehicle any number of free spaces counts as one move. Pushing the same car again right away still counts as one. |
| Escape | The level is cleared when the red car reaches the exit in the right wall. |
How do you earn three stars?
Match the fewest possible moves for three stars, stay within one and a half times that number for two, and any escape earns one. The minimum was found by a breadth first search over every position, so nobody can beat it.
- Easy: 5 to 9 moves, few cars, good for learning.
- Medium: 10 to 16 moves, you have to move one car to free another.
- Hard: 17 to 25 moves, trucks block the way in layers.
- Expert: 26 to 42 moves, the lane opens only after a long detour.
Tips
- Start with the red car's row. Find out exactly which vehicles stand between it and the exit.
- Work backwards. Ask where a blocker needs to go, then what is blocking that spot, and so on.
- Park trucks at the ends. A vertical truck is three spaces long, so it often has to go all the way to the top or bottom to free the middle row.
- Use undo and hints. Undo is unlimited, and a hint shows the next move on the fastest way out from where you are.
Clearing a level unlocks the next one, and the first three of every difficulty are open from the start. Your best move count and stars for each level are saved in this browser.