🐀 Rat Race

Special level · 2,400 m · difficulty ★★

🚆 Luxembourg → Metz 🇫🇷: the Commuter level

Rat Race Commuter level in pixel art: leaving Luxembourg for Metz, under the Red Bridge
The start of the Commuter level to Metz: the Red Bridge in the rain, before the border.

A cross-border commuter leaves Kirchberg after work and runs all the way to Metz. In the game the trip is 2,400 m for 60 km on the road: the ★★ version of Rat Race’s Commuter level, harder than Thionville, Arlon and Trier.

The rules differ from the cities: broken-down cars and stalled trains are platforms, you jump onto them and run along the roof where the coins are lined up; touching their side ends the run. Traffic-jam monsters walk towards you, customs drones bob up and down (duck), Moselle seagulls fly at head height. It rains, of course.

At the finish, your home and your time: every € picked up on the way takes 0.25 s off, so running along the train roofs pays. Each difficulty keeps its own record to Metz, and the time goes into the share text.

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The scenery along the way, in order

  1. Red Bridge
  2. Gëlle Fra
  3. EU Court of Justice
  4. Border · France
  5. Thionville Belfry
  6. Metz Cathedral
  7. Centre Pompidou-Metz
  8. Germans' Gate
  9. Home 🏠

The first three sights (Red Bridge, Gëlle Fra, EU Court of Justice) are those of Luxembourg, level 1 of the game.

How to play the Commuter level

From the start screen, the “Commuter” button, then the Metz card. Space or tap to jump, down arrow or swipe down to duck. Monsters and drones show up from the first segment, and the speed rises every 250 m.

The other destinations

🇧🇪 Arlon (1,200 m, ★) · 🇫🇷 Thionville (1,400 m, ★) · 🇩🇪 Trier (1,800 m, ★) · 🇫🇷 Nancy (3,600 m, ★★★)