Test Your Subway Know-How With Subwaydle

NEW YORK CITY — Pop quiz, hotshot: You have just two transfers and three trains to get from Ozone Park to NYU, what do you do?

What do you do?

That's the question posed by Subwaydle, the Wordle-for-New York City puzzle that quizzes straphangers about how to hop from train to train and get from place to place.

And, thanks to the generosity of coder and transit aficionado Sunny Ng, it's the question posed by Patch in our first ever Sunday puzzle.

So here's what you do: After you've made the coffee and before you dig into the week's top stories, sit back and enjoy a "Subwaydle."

The rules:

1. You have six guesses to identify the correct route.
2. When a correct guess is in the right spot, it will turn green.
3. When a correct guess is not in the right spot, it will turn gold.
4. Each guess must be a valid subway trip with three trains and two transfers.
5. Transfers are allowed to and from Staten Island's St. George station via Whitehall Street–South Ferry or Bowling Green stations.
6. No stations can be traveled through more than once in each trip.
7. You can switch from a local line to an express line then back to the same local line, but you can't switch from an express line to a local line back to the same express line.
8. Routing for each train line is based on midday schedule. Weekend puzzles are based on regularly-scheduled weekend routings.

To use your keyboard:

1. Use corresponding numbers and letters for specific routes
2. Use I for the Staten Island Railroad
3. Use S for the S42
4. Use K for the Franklin Avenue Shuttle
5. Use H for the Rockaway Park Shuttle

Patch publishes Subwaydle with permission from creator Sunny Ng, a New York City-based software engineer with an interest in public transit. Ng is also the creator of The Weekendest and goodservice.io. Read more about Ng here.