Trailblazer

Trailblazer is an endless runner, and the oldest kind there is: one figure, one trail, and things in the way. Your runner never stops and never steers. All you ever decide is whether to leave the ground or get down flat — jump what stands up out of the trail, duck what hangs across it — and the trail keeps coming faster than you would like.

It starts at a walk and builds to a sprint over the first twelve hundred metres. Past that the speed only creeps, but the trail itself gets meaner: less room between obstacles, more of the wide and awkward ones, more things to duck. Every gap it gives you is measured to leave a real moment on the ground before the next jump — when a run ends, it was a read you missed, not a trail with no answer.

Two countries

Pick one on the way in. The Desert is a skeleton running the flat — graves, bones and saguaro to jump, the gallows to duck under, a tumbleweed that rolls at you faster than the ground moves, and light that moves on from morning to noon to dusk to a night you can barely see in. The Forest is a bear on a mountain path — stumps, logs, a pond and a gap in the trail to clear, and an eagle that swoops in at head height. Same legs, same jump, same trail underneath; each keeps its own best.

Thirty seconds to start

• Space or ↑ jumps; ↓ ducks for as long as you hold it.
• On a phone, tap the right half to jump and hold the left half to duck.
• Distance is the score, in metres. There is nothing to collect and nothing to buy.

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