Trainyard app for iPhone and iPad


4.1 ( 9871 ratings )
Games Education Board Puzzle
Developer: Matt Rix
0.99 USD
Current version: 1.66, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 10 Jun 2010
App size: 7.72 Mb

New iOS 11 update coming soon! :)

Trainyard has the best user review scores on the entire App Store!

+ Innovative and challenging puzzle mechanic
+ Smooth difficulty curve
+ 100 main puzzles and over 50 bonus puzzles
+ Hundreds of ways to solve each puzzle
+ Puzzle editor: create your own puzzles
+ Retina display support
+ Easily share your unique solutions on Trainyard.ca
+ Looks GREAT on the iPad
+ Engineered for low battery usage
+ Colour-blind mode
+ Game Center support
+ A year in the making
+ Developed in my spare time (support indie games!)

[NOTE: there is a bug in iOS 8 where the game will freeze after a puzzle. To fix it, press Credits -> Rate It. You do not need to actually rate the game, just pressing that button will fix it. Sorry! ]

Stuck on a puzzle? Visit http://trainyard.ca/solutions where there are over *1.5 million* player-submitted solutions.

Trainyard is a puzzle solving game unlike any that youve ever played. Its easy to learn but very tough to master. Your job is simple: get each train to a goal station. Red trains go to red stations, blue trains go to blue stations, etc. You control the trains by drawing track for them to follow. There isnt a time limit or even a score; the only thing you need to do is figure out a solution for each puzzle.

The first few puzzles are almost too easy, but as the difficulty increases youll be thankful that you were able to practice the fundamentals of drawing track. As the game progresses, youll have to use colour theory to combine trains of different colours, use timing to merge and split trains, and use every inch of your brain in your quest to beat the game.

Find out more at http://www.trainyard.ca

Developed by Matt Rix (matt@trainyard.ca)

Proudly made in Canada.

Think you beat the whole game? Try to solve all the bonus puzzles! Done that? Try to match the track counts on http://trainyard.ca/solutions

Trainyard makes use of these excellent libraries:

+ Cocos2D-iPhone by Ricardo Quesada
+ XAuthTwitterEngine by Aral Balkan
+ Twitter+OAuth code by Ben Gottlieb
+ MGTwitterEngine by Matt Gemmell
+ ASIHTTPRequest by All-Seeing Interactive
+ SFHFKeychainUtils by Buzz Andersen
+ TouchXML by Jonathan Wight
+ FMDB by Flying Meat Inc.

Pros and cons of Trainyard app for iPhone and iPad

Trainyard app good for

More than a game. Maybe a clever puzzle at the same place of a chess, cause of neurons interactions, of choices for the solutions...and for its addiction. Sure it brings reflexions and a good source for training the brain. Also a good choice in management of companies !
This game burned my brained and this why its so good ! Just one thing ... Why so much options to each screen ! I just want to play more and more :)
I wish more game apps were this good, this well put together and executed, and this much fun!
Really good game, 4 stars because the game crash when you finish a level. If the developer can fix that :)
Very chalenging! Endless fun, considering the tons of user made puzzles...
Excellent logic puzzle. Best yet. Gets quite hard and makes you think.

Some bad moments

Dont get me wrong, its a great game! But unfortunately there is no support for the bigger screens of the iPhone 6 :( Besides that I still like it!
Having a problem on IPhone 6 when I complete a tutorial correctly it will not allow me to press next challenge button or any button at that, I am stuck on the screen and have to close the app and re-open then skip to the next challenge. Please address this issue. The challenges that I have played are quite enjoyable but having to close the app after every level is rather annoying.
Im so sorry I paid for this program... Always freezes. Same thing with the "Express" version
You have had lots of good reviews and I have not seen a negative one. I tried the free game first and it kept freezing on me after I had gone quite a way on it, so I wrote a negative review about it. I really like the game though so thought I would try the 99c one. It worked well at first, but froze again after several games. So I removed it and downloaded it again later and tried again. I got a little further along this time and I was really enjoying it, now it has frozen again. I dont know how else to communicate with you, so am trying this, and hope you will try to fix this problem. I am using and iPad 2 with IOS 9.6 Thanks.
Once you solve a puzzle the buttons to move to next puzzle doesnt work. You need to restart the app in order for it to work. I even purchased the app because it was such a good game. Too bad it didnt work.
After the Iqaluit Inverse track the game will not allow you to continue or hit next. The game must be closed and re opened to choose the next track. I have tried this on 3 devices. iPhone 4S, iPhone 5SE and iPad Air. The free version seems to work better than the paid.

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