Benzin

How to play

• ← → Steer
• ↑ Accelerate
• ↓ Brake

Click or tap the game to enable sound, then choose JOUER. The menus are in French, as in the original: INSTRUCTIONS shows the controls, HISCORES takes you to the leaderboard on this page, and after a round REJOUER plays again and ENREGISTRE TON SCORE saves your score. The loudspeaker at the bottom left of the game cycles its sound between full, half and off.

You drive a fire engine seen from above across a farm, and you have 1:30 to cause as much damage as you can. There is no way to lose and no damage to take — the clock simply runs out. Keep holding ↓ once the truck has stopped and it reverses. On touch devices the on-screen buttons appear automatically; you can switch them on or off above.

The truck steers faster the quicker it is going, and at a standstill it cannot turn at all, so drive through herds in a straight line rather than circling inside them. Mud — the dirt track, the railway, the pond around the building and the dark edge of the map — slows you down and makes turning worse. Everything scores simply by being driven into.

What things are worth

The train is far and away the best target: one hit is worth 22 animals, and a fresh train arrives at the top of the map about 21 seconds later, so you can catch it around four times in a round. Learn where it crosses your route and wait a few seconds for it if you have to. Animals and pylons come back after roughly 11 seconds, so a driving loop that takes at least that long collects them again every lap; the line of nine pylons makes a good straight to finish a lap on. Take the building and the nearest house early — those two only count once.

Use the volume slider above to adjust all sound, or set it to 0 to mute. Restart game returns to the main menu at any time.

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