About Home Rush

Home Rush is a drawing puzzle where the line you draw is a route rather than a barrier. A child is crying somewhere, a parent is somewhere else, and your job is to connect them with a path that avoids walls, dogs, cars and thieves. You are not blocking anything — you are finding a way through, which is a different problem from the one it superficially resembles.

That distinction matters because this site has another draw-to-solve puzzle, Save The Pets: Draw to Save, and the two work in opposite directions. There you draw a barrier to stop something reaching a target, and physics tests whether your object holds. Here you draw the route itself, and the test is whether the path you chose touches anything it should not. One is defensive construction, the other is navigation.

The practical consequence is that hazards here are constraints on your line rather than forces acting on it. A dog does not knock your drawing over; it simply occupies space your route cannot cross. That makes the game closer to maze-solving than to physics puzzling, and it means the right approach is to plan the whole path before touching the screen rather than drawing and adjusting.

It carries Puzzle, Kids and Casual. Kids is earned — the premise is reuniting children with families, nothing can be lost permanently, and a single drag covers the entire game. The later levels have real routing problems in them, so it works for an adult too, but the tone stays gentle throughout.

Tips for Home Rush

• Plan the whole route before you start drawing. This is navigation, not construction — a path decided halfway through usually meets something.
• Look at the hazards first, then the gap between them. The route is defined by where you cannot go more than by where you want to end up.
• Take the long way round. There is no reward for the shortest path, and wide detours avoid far more than tight lines squeezing past danger.
• Draw slowly through narrow gaps. Speed is where an accurate plan becomes an inaccurate line.
• If a level looks impossible, look for a route above or below rather than through. The obvious direct line is rarely the intended one.
• For the opposite kind of drawing puzzle, Save The Pets on this site has you draw barriers instead of routes.

Did you know?

• The line you draw is a path to travel rather than a physical barrier, which makes this a navigation puzzle rather than a physics one.
• Hazards — walls, dogs, cars and thieves — constrain where your route can go rather than acting on your drawing.
• It is the counterpart to Save The Pets: Draw to Save in this catalogue, where the line you draw is a defensive object instead.
• There is no reward for a short route, so wide detours around hazards are strictly better than tight lines past them.