🕹️ Play Route Digger Game: Free Online Sand Digging Path Making Video Game for Kids & Adults

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Game Play Instructions

How to Play

Play Route Digger online for free. Route Digger is a 30-stage digging puzzle game where you must bring down a colored ball to its corresponding pipe. Make sure that gravity keeps the ball moving while avoiding level ground and moving spikes. This game is rendered in mobile-friendly HTML5, so it offers cross-device gameplay. You can play it on mobile devices like Apple iPhones, Google Android powered cell phones from manufactures like Samsung, tablets like the iPad or Kindle Fire, laptops, and Windows-powered desktop computers. All game files are stored locally in your web browser cache. This game works in Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and other modern web browsers.

Starting the Game

On the welcome screen, select the brown play button to begin.
Your web browser automatically saves your game progress.
Game Controls
- Desktop
  - With your mouse, left click and drag to dig a path through the sand.
  - Touchscreen devices
    - Tap on the screen with your fingers to dig through the sand.
    - Game Play
      - Levels
        Levels are unlocked in sequence. Only the first level is playable at the start of the game.
        To unlock a level, select Next Level after completing the previous one.
        You can replay all the levels you’ve already unlocked.
        You get an unlimited number of continues, but if any ball hits spikes or does not make it to the pipe you have to play the level again.
        
        Basic rules
        
        Bring the ball to the pipe beneath the sand.
        
        The ball can only go down.
        
        To descend, the ball must go straight down or on an incline.
        
        If a ball lands on a flat surface, it will stop.
        
        Each ball must go to the pipe of its color.
        
        Dig a path that lets gravity do much of the work.
        
        Avoid obstacles like planks and hazards like rotating spikes.
        
        If you’re ever stuck, select the reset button on the top right corner of the screen.
        
        You will fail the level if:
        
        The ball can’t roll. The game simply stops.
        
        The ball is destroyed by spikes. This triggers a loss screen.
        
        Tips
        
        Work backward
        
        This game is all about taking advantage of gravity to get past obstacles & to keep rolling on more flat portions of your path. Thus it can help build your path from the destination and work backward so that when you release the ball it has a lot of momentum.
        
        The exception to the work backward tip is on levels with narrow walls and steep vertical falls where you want to limit the ball’s momentum while it is falling so it does not fall off platform.
        
        Route width
        
        Balls can get stuck or bounce off of the edges of narrow paths. If you want the ball to move fast make the path at least 1.5 to 2 balls wide so you have clearance space.
        
        Grade / angle
        
        Keep in mind the sand provides a lot of friction to slow down the balls, so try to have at 25% or 30% or greater angle whenever possible.
        
        If you have to redig out a stuck ball at a low grade you impact the remainder of the path & may have a slow moving ball which then gets stuck again on another flat part of the course.
        
        In later levels, it pays to work slowly.
        
        Make sure that you plot a course for the ball that will keep it going down.
        
        This is especially important if more than 1 ball will be going down the same shaft.
        
        When bringing down multiple balls using the same shaft, it pays to plan ahead.
        
        If they’re sharing the same tunnel for part of the way, make sure the first of the balls to pass through gets to its destination.
        
        Dig the new route for the second ball only after the first ball has passed through.
        
        If both balls are moving downward you typically want to service the ball with the higher destination first.
        
        If both destinations are at the same height you often want to work the ball with the lower slope or the longer path first.
        
        Feel free to stop the ball & break longer paths into 2 component smaller paths.
        
        This is very important if you want to dodge moving objects like rotating spikes.
        
        You can even build a path that stops just before the path of spikes so that when you remove just a bit of sand you quickly fall past the spikes without hitting them.
        
        Gotchas
        
        There is a gotcha on level 17 where the green pipe at the bottom can be moved. If you lose the level and replay it that pipe may not appear, but if you put the ball where the pipe was you can still beat that level.
        
        If you roll a ball into a pipe hard enough it can bounce out and then bounce back in, counting as 2 balls landed in pipes. 🙂
        
        Target Audience
        
        The game is suited for players who like challenging digging games.
        
        The tight clearances, moving obstacles & the way sand slows down the ball roll makes this game far more difficult than most other digging games.
        
        Players who enjoy this game will also likely enjoy the sequels Route Digger 2 & Route Digger 3.
        
        The game has no adult themed content.

Mobile Friendly Cross Browser Support

This game is rendered in mobile-friendly HTML5, so it offers cross-device gameplay. You can play it on mobile devices like Apple iPhones, Google Android powered cell phones from manufactures like Samsung, tablets like the iPad or Kindle Fire, laptops, and Windows-powered desktop computers. All game files are stored locally in your web browser cache. This game works in Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and other modern web browsers.

Route Digger is not available here.

If you want to play Route Digger, Click here to Play

Game Play Instructions

How to Play

Mobile Friendly Cross Browser Support

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