🐀 Rat Race

Special level · 3,600 m · difficulty ★★★

🚆 Luxembourg → Nancy 🇫🇷: the Commuter level

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

A cross-border commuter leaves Kirchberg after work and runs all the way to Nancy. In the game the trip is 3,600 m for 120 km on the road: the ★★★ version of Rat Race’s Commuter level, the longest and hardest one.

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 Nancy, and the time goes into the share text.

Play the Commuter level All cities

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. Place Stanislas
  8. Porte de la Craffe
  9. Arc Héré
  10. 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 Nancy 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, ★) · 🇫🇷 Metz (2,400 m, ★★)