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Strategy & Management
A top-down crossroads with traffic lights and queues of colourful cars

Tap a junction to switch its lights

Traffic Control. Keyboard: Click a junction to switch its lights. Or press the junction’s number (Space with a single junction). P or Escape to pause. Touch: Tap a junction to switch its lights. Press P or Escape to pause.

Traffic Control hands you the town’s traffic lights. Cars and trucks pour in along the main road and the side streets, and each junction lets only one road through at a time. Tap a junction to switch its lights: they go amber, wait for the junction to clear and then turn green the other way, so there are never any crashes — but a driver left at a red light for too long gives up in a huff. Get enough cars through before the clock runs out. Six towns grow from a quiet crossroads to a three-junction town centre with busier roads and slow trucks.

How to play Traffic Control

Goal: Get the target number of cars through before time runs out, without too many angry drivers.

Keyboard & mouse

  • Click a junction to switch its lights
  • Or press the junction’s number (Space with a single junction)
  • P or Escape to pause

Phone & tablet

  • Tap a junction to switch its lights

Rules

  • Each junction gives green to either the main road or its side street.
  • Switching takes a moment: the lights turn amber and wait until the junction is clear.
  • A bubble above a waiting car fills up; when it is full the driver gives up angrily.
  • Too many angry drivers, or running out of time, ends the level.

Tips and strategy

  • Switch when a queue builds up, not every second — each switch costs a little time.
  • The main road is usually busier; give it longer greens.
  • With several junctions, keep the main road green at all of them together.
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