FAQ

To complete all the Travel Goals by solving word puzzles which help you travel across the counry (virtually).

A three letter clue that shows up on a license plate., e.g., the "PRY" in the license plate "PRY 153".

By finding a word that contains all the puzzle's letters. They must appear in the exact same order, but they do not have to occur next to each other. e.g., "party" is a valid answer to the puzzle "PRY".

Most dictionary words with 4 or more characters (excluding proper nouns and hyphenated words). If the puzzle is already a word, you must add at least one letter to form a valid answer.

A travel goal is collecting certain types of interesting locations as you travel across the country. e.g., Visiting 10 ghost towns.

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The Travel game is for a single player and does not impose any time limits. The Race game is a two-player game and you only have a fixed amount of time to find an answer to each puzzle. The goal of the Race game is to travel further than your opponent by having better puzzle answers.

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Each puzzle has many possible answers and each is assigned a "strength". The higher the strength of your answer, the more miles you earn. The minimum is 1 mile and the maximum is 6 miles.

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Longer words are preferred over shorter words. Root words are preferred over inflected word forms such as plurals, past tenses, etc. For example, the word "root" is preferred over the words "roots", "rooted" or "rooting". Finally, if all else is equal, less frequently occurring words are preferred over more commonly occurring words. The answer strength is calculated by ranking all possible answers for the puzzle and ordering them. The best one is assigned a strength of 1.0, the least one is assigned 0.0 and with the others spread in between those values.

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Each puzzle is ranked by its difficulty and we show a mix of easier and harder puzzles. Usuually, the easier puzzles are selected, but occasionally you will see the harder ones.

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Your current (game) location. The state you are (virtually) in is the most likely to appear, though as you get nearer to other states, you will begin to see plates from those states more frequently too. Every once in a while, you may see a random plate from other states, roughly in proportion to that state's population.

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