Crate Lift

A one-minute puzzle platformer with ten difficulty steps: hold and everything in the room falls up except your robot. Grab the key, climb three floors, dodge the cannons.

Controls

Left thumb runs, right thumb holds on a phone; A and D (or the arrows) and Space on a keyboard

Time limit

60 seconds

Score

Clear time, lower is better

Type

Puzzle

How to play Crate Lift

1. On a phone, hold it sideways. Run your robot left and right: slide your left thumb on a phone, or use A and D or the arrow keys. The robot never jumps or climbs a step.
2. Hold your right thumb anywhere (or Space) and every crate, boulder, balloon and coin falls up until you let go. Balloons go the other way: they sink while you hold.
3. A crate in your way is a wall: hold to lift it and run under, and let go once you are past. A crate set into the floor is floor while you let go and an elevator while you hold.
4. The door is locked until you have the key, which sits under a grate on the first floor. A long hold brings the boulder under it up too.
5. Cannons fire along their floor on a fixed beat, glowing first. Crates and boulders stop their shots; holding lifts your cover with everything else.
6. You start on difficulty 3 of 10. Clear a difficulty to unlock the next: the cannons fire more often (every 3 seconds on difficulty 5, every 2.1 on 10) and glow for less time first. 60 seconds.

Tips

• A short tap lifts things about half a cell and lets them drop back. That is all the key needs.
• Hold right after a shot, not during the glow: you have until the next one to get under and let go.
• A crate you just ran under drops back behind you when you let go, and it covers you from the cannon behind.
• On the bridges of balloons, keep holding: they are only floor while you do.
• The room is the same every time, so each try teaches you the next part.