Turtle Tracks

Someone slipped one buggy card into the turtle's program — find it, fix it, and steer the turtle to the jewel.

How to play

The turtle follows a program made of instruction cards, but one card is wrong and sends it off course. Trace the intended path, click the card you think is buggy, and replace it with the correct instruction from the palette. Run the program to watch the turtle and confirm it now reaches the jewel.

• Read the program and trace where the turtle goes wrong
• Click the card you suspect is the bug
• Choose the correct instruction — forward, left, right or a repeat change
• Run it to watch the turtle reach the jewel

Controls

• Desktop: click a card to select it, click a palette instruction to fix it, click Run
• Phone & tablet: tap cards, palette instructions and the Run button

Tips & strategy

• Walk the path one card at a time in your head — the bug is the first step that veers off route
• A wrong turn early throws off everything after it, so check direction cards first
• Easy, Medium and Hard make the programs longer and the bug harder to spot

What you'll learn

Turtle Tracks teaches sequencing and reading code by hunting a single bad instruction, an approachable intro to debugging.

• Skills: debugging, sequencing, reading code, attention to detail
• Best for: roughly grades 3–8 (ages 8–14)
• For parents & teachers: reading and debugging code, made approachable.

About Turtle Tracks

Turtle Tracks is an original debugging puzzle that teaches sequencing and reading code by hunting a single bad instruction. Play free in your browser with daily and practice puzzles across three difficulties.

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