Chakdo Passenger Rush 3D

Chakdo Passenger Rush 3D — how to play and tips

Chakdo Passenger Rush 3D is a parking-jam puzzle with a pickup stand, played in 3D in your browser on a phone, tablet or computer. A packed parking lot is full of chakdos, autos and tempos in bright colours, boxed in by cars, bikes, ST buses and trucks. Passengers are waiting at the stand. Get the right rickshaws out of the jam, let them fill up with passengers of the same colour and pick up everyone before the clock runs out. There is nothing to download and no sign-up.

How to play

Tap a vehicle to drive it forwards, or swipe the other way to reverse. A vehicle rolls until it leaves the lot or bumps into something. Once a rickshaw is out it drives along the road to the pickup stand and parks in the first free slot. The passenger at the front of the queue climbs into the leftmost parked rickshaw of their own colour, then the next one, one by one. A chakdo seats three, an auto two and a tempo five. Cars, bikes, buses, trucks and tractors carry nobody: take them out only when they are in the way.

When a rickshaw is full it honks and drives away, its slot opens up and you get two extra seconds. Fill rickshaws one after another within three seconds for a combo. The stand has four slots, plus a locked fifth one. If every slot is taken by rickshaws that nobody at the front of the queue wants, the stand is jammed and the round ends, so look at the queue before you send a rickshaw out.

Stars, timer and boosters

The clock starts with your first move, so you can study the board first. Finish with half the time left and no boosters for three stars, a quarter of the time for two, and any finish for one. Boosters help on a hard board: a chai break adds fifteen seconds and is free once a day, Shuffle moves the passengers who fit a parked rickshaw to the front, an Extra Slot opens the fifth bay, the Magnet pulls everyone of one colour into a parked rickshaw, and a Hint lights up a good next vehicle. Undo takes back a slide inside the lot, but never the clock or a rickshaw that has already left. If you run out of time or jam the stand, you can continue once with coins.

Five chapters across Gujarat

The 220 levels grow fast, from a six by six tutorial to a ten by twelve lot with forty vehicles and more than seventy passengers. Gaam teaches colours, slots and the timer. Rajkot brings Hurry Kaka, who has his own countdown, five-seat tempos and a VIP sheth who only rides a gold chakdo. Ahmedabad adds families who must share one rickshaw and mystery passengers whose colour shows only at the front of the queue. In Surat a cow wanders across the road, some rickshaws are locked until others have left and frozen ones need a second tap to start. Navratri Mela ends with garba groups of five, night boards where only rickshaws with a clear way out show their colour, and rush-hour waves of extra passengers.

Daily rush, garage and more

The Daily Chakdo Rush is one shared level a day with a board of the fastest finishes. Playing every day builds a streak with a small gift each day and a gold chakdo for a day on day seven. Coins buy chakdo paint jobs and stand decorations such as a toran, diya lights and flower pots. The passenger album collects every kind of rider you meet, and festival events bring extra levels for Diwali, Uttarayan and Navratri. Text can be shown in English, ગુજરાતી or हिन्दी, with settings for numbered vehicles and passengers, a relaxed mode without a timer, reduced motion, music, voice lines and vibration.

The 3D models are used under the CC BY 4.0 licence: the "Auto Rickshaw" by rSquare, the passengers by Pixel_Monster and the bhelpuri cart by AJ_AY, all on Sketchfab. They were made lighter for phones. The game is built with three.js.