Errand Driver Game
A shopping list shows for ten seconds, then hides. Drive round a small town at night, dodge the traffic, and pull into the shop that sells each item. The town is full of shops you do not need, a wrong stop costs time, and the game only counts how many items you have, never which ones. So the list has to stay in your head while your hands are busy driving.
Learn a shopping list in ten seconds, then drive round a town at night and pull into the shop that sells each item.
How to play
- The shopping list shows for ten seconds over the town. Learn it, or press GO when you have.
- The list hides and the clock starts. Hold an arrow to drive that way. The car turns at the next corner in that direction, the arrow behind the car turns it round, and letting go stops it.
- Beside a shop's lot, press PULL IN. Each item is sold by one shop, and a shop that sells something on your list counts it as found.
- A shop with nothing on your list, or nothing more you need, costs 10 seconds. Bumping another car costs 5. The traffic waits at junctions while a car is crossing, so watch for it before you drive into one.
- Find every item before the clock runs out to finish the town. The next town has a longer list and busier roads.
The first town's list has 3 items and its clock 62 seconds. Each town adds one item, up to 7, and each item adds 14 seconds to the clock.
On a keyboard, hold the arrow keys or W, A, S and D to drive, and press Enter for GO and PULL IN. On a phone, hold the arrows under the town with one thumb, sliding between them to turn, and press PULL IN with the other. Escape or Space pauses, and pausing hides the list, so it cannot buy time to learn it.
Scoring
- Each item found scores 100 points.
- Each whole second left on the clock when a town is done scores 10.
Your five best games are saved in this browser, with the town each one reached. In practice, the clock stops at 0:00 instead of ending the game, so you can finish the town. Practice games are not saved.
Remembering the list
Ten seconds is enough for three items read once, but not for seven. Link the items into one story, or place each one along a route you know, and the whole list comes back as you drive. Our guide on how to memorize shopping lists shows how to do it with a memory palace. The story method links the items into one scene, and peg lists give each item a numbered place, so you also know when one is missing.
Try our other free memory games.
