Lane Rush

Lane Rush is a three-lane snowboarding endless runner in full 3D. Your rider in a red jacket, beanie and goggles carves down a sunny mountain slope that never ends, past snowy pines, rocks and the odd snowman, while trees, fallen logs, race banners, kickers and snow groomers come out of the haze below. Swipe left and right to carve between the lanes, swipe up or tap to jump, and swipe down to duck: the same swipe controls you know from the most popular phone runners, in a game you can play for free in your browser with no download.

The jump is yours to shape. A quick tap is a small hop that clears every log on the mountain, so nothing ever demands perfect timing. Hold Space, or keep your finger down after swiping up, and the rider climbs higher, up to a big grab that floats over the gold coin hanging high above each log, scores a BIG AIR bonus and can land you right on top of a box. Ride a kicker up onto a long fun-box to slide above the trees and collect the coins along the top, and keep an eye on the groomers: they wait in your lane with their beacon flashing, then sound their horn and drive straight up the slope at you.

Every run starts gently. The first stretch shows one thing at a time, with a small hint at the bottom of the screen: a line of coins, a single tree, a log to jump, a banner to duck under. Then the mountain gets busier. Double rows of pines leave only one lane open, logs and banners stretch across the whole slope, mixed rows ask for a different move in every lane, and the speed keeps climbing for the first four minutes before it holds at a breakneck pace. The light turns from midday to golden hour as you descend.

There are two ways to ride. Endless has no timer: the run goes on until you wipe out, and the leaderboard is about how far down the mountain you got. Timed is the same slope on a 90-second clock, for a quick round: survive to the finish and score as much as you can before time runs out. Each mode has its own leaderboards.

Mistakes are forgiven once. Your first hit is only a stumble: you wobble, the obstacle smashes, and a giant snowball comes rolling at your heels. Hit something else in the next four seconds and you wipe out. That makes Lane Rush easy to start, since a newcomer's first runs last a minute or two, while the best riders chase long clean runs. Power-ups help: the shield takes one hit, the magnet pulls in every coin nearby, and 2× doubles your points for ten seconds.

Scoring is about how far you get. Every metre you ride earns points, coins and big airs add a little more, and a clean-run multiplier grows by one every 15 seconds without a stumble, up to ×4, so staying clean matters as much as surviving. The distance is shown large at the top of the screen, and coins are laid along the safe line, beside a tree, through the open lane, in an arc over a log and low under a banner, so following them teaches you the slope.

Lane Rush plays well on every device. On a computer it fills a wide screen: use the arrow keys or WASD, hold Space to jump higher, and press P to pause. On a phone, swipe in any direction and hold after swiping up. It sits with our other endless runner games, reaction games and action games, and its Timed mode is one of our quick games for a short break, on mobile or PC.

Free play is unlimited. When you want a run to count, press Ranked attempt: your score goes on the all-time and weekly leaderboards once it has been verified by replaying your inputs on our servers.