Metro Maneuver
Draw metro lines, pick up riders, beat the optimal score
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Metro Maneuver is a free daily puzzle about transit maps. Each day you get one small city with stations, hubs, rivers and parks, plus a few metro lines with tight track budgets. Draw every line and pick up as many riders as you can. Every map has a proven optimal score, so there’s always a perfect answer to chase. Difficulty ramps up through the week, Sunday adds tunnels and ferries, and you can build and share your own maps. No account, no download, no ads.
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PH · launched Oct 29, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Web App
- Maps
- Games
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Partial The daily puzzle UI, map rendering, and scoring are straightforward to vibe-code. The stated 'proven optimal score' for each map requires an exact solver for a hard constrained optimization problem, which is the difficult part.
What it would actually take: Build the game in a web front end with map generation and a scoring engine. Each daily map needs an optimal solution computed offline, probably with integer programming, branch-and-bound, or custom search over the track and rider constraints. The hard part is proving optimality on maps that are hard to solve exactly, which requires operations research or combinatorial optimization expertise and significant compute.
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Attention rank: #75 of 151 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 262 days after the earliest competitor.
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