Route Digger 2

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This is a 30-stage physics puzzle game that builds on the concepts laid out by Route Digger 1. Like the previous game, you must dig a shaft to bring down a colored ball to its respective pipe underground. However, you must also push the balls down the path on some levels by releasing other balls or wheels that provide the initial energy to overcome starting friction.

• Dig around metal objects or use them to push the balls in the right direction.
• Don’t let the balls roll offscreen.

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Route Digger 2 Game for Kids Video Game Play Instructions

How to Play

Dig a path for the colored balls to go to their respective underground pipes. Avoid other objects or use them to direct the balls where they need to go.

• Starting the Game
  • On the welcome screen, select the purple 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.
  • 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.
      • Some obstacles can fall down. Dig around them to move them out of the way.
    • If you’re ever stuck, select the redo option on the hamburger button at the top right corner of the screen.
    • If any of the balls roll offscreen or fall into the wrong pipes, you fail the level.
  • Weights
    • Unlike in the previous game, this game has some balls that start off in a location where you can’t dig beneath them.
    • To ensure that they fall down, use a weight located somewhere above the balls to fall onto them.
    • You can also use other balls to push stationary balls, but this is a lot trickier to accomplish.
    • When you must use another ball to move a second ball, be sure the destination paths are completed or mostly complete so you do not need to do a lot of digging while multiple balls are in motion at once.
  • 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.
    • 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.
      • Generally it is best to do the ball with the flattest grade angle to the destination first then the balls with a steeper or more direct fall angle.
    • Feel free to stop the ball.
      • This is very important if you want groups of balls to fall in the correct order.
      • You can stop balls just before they are in the path of obstacles so you only have to time digging a small portion of your path.
    • If you must use a ball to push other balls, plan each shaft you dig with care. The only way for the balls to go to their respective places is for them to fall at the correct angles.
• Target Audience
  • The game is suited for players who like difficult digging games.
    • This game is far more difficult than the typically digging game.
      • The need to reuse the same shafts for multiple balls provides some challenge.
      • On some levels you must not only have a common path but then make ramps to have them fly off into the air and land into the correct pipe.
      • Some levels also have narrow passages and obstacles you must move out of the way.
    • People who like this game will also likely enjoy Route Digger 1 and the follow up Route Digger 3.
  • The game has no adult themed content.

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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.

Plays.org published this Digging on March 16, 2022 / One Comment