Train Tracks (PuzzleMadness)

About Train Tracks (PuzzleMadness)

Train Tracks gives you a grid with two track pieces pointing off its edge, the entrance and the exit, and a few other pieces already laid. You lay one continuous railway between them so that the number beside each row and above each column matches how many squares in that line hold track. The track runs straight or turns corners, never branches or crosses.

The daily page opens today's puzzle on its own, and its title carries the date (on 3 October 2026 it read "Daily Medium Train Tracks Puzzle for Saturday 3rd October 2026"). There is a separate dated puzzle for each size: Small, Medium, Large and Mixed. Past days stay in the archive, so a missed puzzle can be played later, and there is a print version and an image download of the grid. PuzzleMadness does not publish solutions: the site tells you when you have finished a grid correctly or made a mistake. Each completed puzzle adds to your total on the Train Tracks monthly and all-time leaderboards, where only your best score on any one puzzle counts.

Rows and columns that already have their full count can be crossed out first. Then mark the squares that given pieces lead into, since a track piece must connect to something. Low clues near the edge and high clues that nearly fill a line do the rest.

PuzzleMadness is a British puzzle site with dozens of daily puzzle types in the browser, from many sudoku variants to logic grids such as Nurikabe, Hashi and Slitherlink. It is free to play and carries ads. A free account keeps track of the puzzles you have finished and puts your name on the leaderboards, and the badges next to usernames mark how many puzzles a player has completed.

How to play Train Tracks (PuzzleMadness)

1. Open the day's Train Tracks page and choose Small, Medium, Large or Mixed.
2. Cross out squares in any row or column that already has its full count.
3. Extend given pieces into the squares they point to.
4. Join entrance to exit with one track that matches every clue; the site marks it complete.

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Tips

• A clue of 0 clears its whole line.
• Every given piece forces at least one neighbour to hold track.
• The track cannot loop back on itself, so avoid closing off a dead end.

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