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Gold RunnerArcade, Puzzle

Gold Runner

Take the gold, trap the goblins and climb out.

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Gold Runner

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About Gold Runner

Collect every heap of gold in a guarded treasury, then climb the exit ladder. Dig temporary holes to trap goblin thieves and use ladders and ropes to get past them.

How to play

Goal
Take every heap of gold in the vault, then climb the golden ladder to the top.
How it ends
You clear the vault when you reach the top row with all the gold; the run is lost if a goblin catches you, a hole knits shut around you, or the vault's time runs out.
Record
For every vault, the ten best scores and the ten fastest clears, each proved by replaying the run.
  1. Move with the arrow keys, WASD, the pad or a held drag: climb ladders, hang from ropes, fall off edges.
  2. Dig down-left with Z and down-right with X (or the Dig buttons): a goblin that runs into the hole is trapped — walk over its head.
  3. Take every heap of gold, then climb the golden ladder to the top row before the time runs out.
Worked example for Gold Runner
Worked example. See how the rules apply to a real position.

Controls

InputAction
Arrows · WASDMove and climb (hold to keep going)
Z · XDig down-left · down-right
Drag · pad · Dig buttonsMove and dig on a touch screen
MSee the whole vault
P · EscapePause (the run then counts as practice)
R · |◀Start the vault over

Good to know

Goblins slow down as their number increases. Your best results save in this browser; ranked runs are checked by replaying your moves.

Watch how to play

The rules, then The first vault played start to finish. Played by an automated player at a person's pace; the narration is a synthetic voice. English captions.

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