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Draw Parking Path is a free online drawing and parking puzzle that runs in the browser with no download and no sign-up. You never drive anything. You drag a route across the grid from each car to the bay in its colour, and when you press Drive every car sets off on the same tick and moves one square at a time. That is where the puzzle lives: a route can be perfectly legal on its own and still crash, because another car is in that square at that moment. Eight car parks add cars, walls and tighter fuel budgets.
How to play Draw Parking Path
- Each car has a bay outlined in the same colour. Drag from the car across neighbouring squares until the line reaches its bay.
- Tap a coloured chip under the grid to switch to another car, or just start dragging from that car directly.
- Dragging back over the square you just came from rubs that step out, and tapping a square already on the route trims the line back to it.
- Hatched squares are walls. Routes cannot cross them, cannot cross themselves, and cannot pass through another car’s bay.
- The moves counter shows how much fuel that car has left. A longer detour is allowed, up to the budget shown.
- Drive only lights up once every car has a complete route. Press it and all the cars move off together, one square per tick.
- Two cars in the same square at the same tick is a bump, and so is two cars swapping places. Get everybody parked to open the next car park.
Tips
- Think in ticks, not in distance. The question is never "do these lines cross" but "are both cars in that square on the same beat".
- A crossing is fine as long as one car gets there first. Adding a single detour square to one route shifts it by one whole tick, which is usually all a crossing needs.
- Park your short-route cars deliberately early or deliberately late. Once a car reaches its bay it stays there and blocks that square for good.
- When two cars must use the same corridor, send them the same way rather than head-on — cars swapping places is a bump even though they never share a square.
- Walls are your friend as much as your obstacle: a corridor with one entrance forces an order on the cars, which is often the cleanest way to break a deadlock.
- Three stars want the total route length to match the tightest solution the level was built from, so shaving one detour square is worth more than it looks.
- Replay gives you the same car park to try a tidier set of routes. New Car Park generates a different arrangement at the same size.
FAQ
Is Draw Parking Path free to play?
Yes. It runs in your browser with no download, no account and nothing to buy. All eight car parks are here and unlock as you clear them.
My routes do not cross, so why did the cars crash?
Because they crossed in time rather than in space. Every car sets off on the same tick and moves one square per tick, so two routes that meet at the same square on the same beat are a bump even though the lines look fine drawn out.
Why is swapping places a crash?
Two cars trading squares never occupy the same square, but they drive straight through each other doing it. The game checks for that separately, which is why sending both cars round the same way is usually safer than head-on.
Can I route through a bay that is not mine?
No. A parked car stays in its bay for the rest of the round, so the game blocks that square from the start instead of letting it become a timing accident.
Is every car park solvable?
Yes. Each one is built from a set of routes that already work — the game lays those down first and turns leftover squares into walls — so a clean solution always exists.
How is this different from the sliding car puzzles here?
Parking Unblock and Hua Rong Dao are about shoving blockers out of one car’s way, one move at a time. Here nothing blocks anything while you plan; the whole difficulty is that all the cars move simultaneously once you press Drive.
Does Draw Parking Path work on a phone?
Yes. Drawing a route is a single drag, the grid scales to the portrait frame, and the car chips are full-size touch targets.