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📦 Crates and Pits

Two crates, two holes and a step. One of the holes you were always meant to jump.

2–8 playersJoystick and buttonFreeNo app

How it plays

A room with holes in the floor, a step too tall to climb and the way out on top of it -- and fewer crates than there are things to fix. One crate has to become a ladder against the step, the other has to go into the wide hole upstairs, and the narrow hole on the ground is there to take a crate from a room that does not look at it first: that one you can jump.
A crate only moves when at least two of you lean on it, and it moves at the speed of however many hands are on it, so a room that splits itself badly pays for it in seconds. The one button reads JUMP out on the floor and PUSH when you are up against a crate, and the push goes whichever way you are standing. The room is through when every one of you is out the door.

How it runs. Count the crates against the jobs before anybody pushes anything. There are two crates, one wide hole upstairs and one step with no way up it -- which is exactly two jobs, and nothing spare.
Scoring. The narrow hole on the ground floor is a jump, not a job. A crate dropped into it is a crate the room does not get back.
Winning. Nothing moves with one pair of hands on it. Say out loud who is on which crate, because two half-crews push half as fast as one full one.

Stick to walk, one button that changes

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