Dino Run

Tap anywhere to jump. Hold a little longer to jump higher.
Swipe down and keep your finger down to duck under the fliers, or to drop out of a jump fast.
The desert cycles through day, sunset, night and dawn the further you get.

📱 Tap to jump, swipe down to duck⌨️ Space ↑ ↓

🎯 Objective

Run as far as you can. Cacti have to be jumped, low fliers have to be ducked, and one touch of anything ends the run. Your score is the distance in metres.

📊 How you score

You score one metre at a time, faster as the run speeds up: about 9 metres a second at the start and 20 a second once the dino hits top speed around the two minute mark. Nothing else adds to the score, so distance is the only thing that matters. Bronze lands at 350 m, silver at 800 m, and gold at 1500 m.

💡 Tips

Tap briefly for small cacti and hold for the big ones. A full-height jump takes half a second to land, which is a long time when something else is coming.
High fliers pass right over a running dino. Jumping into one is the most common avoidable death in the game.
Swiping down mid-jump drops you like a stone. It is the only way out of a jump you started too early.
Line the apex of your jump up with the middle of an obstacle, not its front edge. The dino drops faster than it rises, so clearing the far side of a triple cactus is the part that catches people out.

How do I play Dino Run?

Tap anywhere to jump, and hold the tap a fraction longer to jump higher. To duck, swipe down and keep your finger on the screen. On a keyboard, Space or the up arrow jumps and the down arrow ducks. The dino runs by itself and speeds up the whole time, so your only job is choosing jump, duck, or neither.

Does the scenery change as I run?

Yes. The desert runs through a full day cycle: a long opening day, then sunset, a starry night, dawn, and round again, each one crossfading into the next. It is pure decoration. Obstacle positions, gaps, speed and hitboxes are produced by the same code whatever the sky is doing, so the time of day never makes a run easier or harder.

Does Dino Run get harder the further I go?

Constantly. The dino speeds up the whole run, from about 9 metres a second to 20 at top speed, and the gap between obstacles tightens in time as well as distance. Large cacti join in at 120 m and pterodactyls at 450 m, so the mix of questions grows as your reaction window shrinks.

Do the pterodactyls always need ducking?

No, and reading them is the real skill. Low fliers must be jumped. Mid fliers can be ducked or cleared with a full-height jump. High fliers pass straight over a running dino, so the correct move is to do nothing, and jumping into one ends the run.

Dino Run

🎯 Objective

📊 How you score

💡 Tips

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