Gaugeyard is a calm shunting puzzle for anyone who likes to plan before they move. You are the dispatcher of a railway depot drawn as an engineer's blueprint: every order hands you a sheet of roads, switches and wagons, and your job is to set each wagon out on its assigned road in as few moves as the reference — without a single breach of the rules.

Each work order opens on a track grid inked on toned drafting paper. Trace the Sh-2 shunter's route with your finger cell by cell, throw switches, couple and uncouple cuts, place brake shoes and turn the turntable. Nothing moves until you press Run: then the consist plays your plan move by move and the result sheet counts your moves against the reference, the fuel you drew and anything written up. Stay at or under par for three stars and a clean sheet, then come back to redraw older orders on a cleaner sheet.

KEY FEATURES
✓ 60 hand-checked work orders across six depots — every one has a proven reference solution
✓ Sheets grow from a 5×4 stub to a 9×7 junction with up to 11 units of rolling stock
✓ A new handling rule in every depot: gradients that roll loose cars, a hump that only takes pushed cars, a 12-position turntable, tank cars that need an escort and a brake shoe, timed track windows and consist length limits
✓ 14 types of rolling stock drawn as technical elevations, each with its own mass, length and restrictions
✓ Six dispatcher's instruments with three tiers each — eraser, tracing paper for draft runs, T-square, gradient meter, coupling tag and par stamp
✓ 30 blueprint forms to collect for clean sheets, breach-free orders and eraser-free runs
✓ Daily shift orders with token bonuses and six dispatcher classes from Yard Trainee to Depot Master
✓ A 20-article handbook with drawn track schemes, and a Free Yard that draws a new solvable sheet from any number

HOW IT WORKS
1. Read the order form: which wagon goes to which road, the clauses in force, the move and fuel budget.
2. Draw the plan on the sheet — drag from the shunter, tap switches, tap a wagon to uncouple it.
3. Press Run the order and watch the consist work your plan.
4. Collect stars, tokens and blueprint forms; open the next depot and issue better instruments.

WHY GAUGEYARD
There is no timer anywhere. Every order is a quiet logic puzzle about switches, headshunts and the order of cars, and mistakes are written up as a breach of a clause rather than a game over. The whole world — wagons, switch stands, buffer stops, the turntable — is drawn in one consistent ink-and-hatching blueprint style, with a synthesised sound kit and light haptics you can switch off.

PRIVACY
Works fully offline. No account, no ads, no tracking, no purchases — your progress stays on your device.

Pick up the first order at Little Dead-End and see how clean a sheet you can file.