Pencil Patrol

Collect numbered tokens and reach the door — but only an exact sum unlocks it.

How to play

Walk your avatar around the grid scooping up numbered tokens. The exit door, marked by a green ring, stays shut until your collected tokens add up to exactly the quota. Overshoot and you can drop a chip from your tray to get back to the right total.

• Plan a path that gathers tokens summing precisely to the quota.
• Grab too much and drop a chip from the tray to recover.
• Clear levels using fewer moves to score better.
• Difficulty rises across a run of levels.

Controls

• Desktop: move with Arrow keys or WASD, or click an adjacent cell to step there; click a tray chip to drop a token.
• Phone & tablet: tap an adjacent cell to move and tap a tray chip to drop a token.

Game modes

• Daily seeded run or endless Practice; you can restart the current level or start a fresh run any time.

Tips & strategy

• Add the quota up backwards — decide which tokens you need before you start walking.
• Leave a flexible small token uncollected as a buffer in case you overshoot.
• Shorter routes score higher, so avoid doubling back for tokens you do not need.

What you'll learn

Pencil Patrol turns a grid-maze chase into mental-arithmetic practice, where reaching exact target sums is how you clear each level.

• Skills: mental arithmetic, exact sums, addition fluency, planning
• Best for: roughly grades 2–6 (ages 7–12)
• For parents & teachers: arithmetic fluency hidden inside a maze game.

About Pencil Patrol

Pencil Patrol is an original free browser game from PlayPendium that turns a token-collecting grid maze into mental-arithmetic practice on exact sums. Play free in your browser, no download.

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