Crossing the road game: practise road safety
Swivelhead is a free crossing the road game you play in your browser. You stand at the kerb and you turn your head to look — swipe the screen on a phone, or move the mouse. Look right. Look left. Look right again. Judge the gap. Cross.
It’s a road safety game for anyone learning to cross on their own, or anyone who wants to practise somewhere a mistake costs nothing.
What makes it different
Most crossing games reward you for getting across. Swivelhead marks the decision instead. Step out into a gap that was never big enough and you lose marks even if nothing hit you — because that’s the habit that matters, and getting away with it once is exactly how you learn the wrong lesson.
- Swipe, or move the mouse, to turn your head and really look
- Wait for a gap that’s genuinely long enough
- Cross when it’s safe, not when it’s nearly safe
Afterwards you’re told what you got right: did you look both ways, did you look again, and did you pick a real gap.
Left-hand and right-hand traffic
Roads work differently depending on where you live, and a game that teaches the wrong side is worse than no game at all. Swivelhead covers UK, US and Australian roads — including which way to look first, which changes the answer completely.
Plays anywhere
No account, no chat, nothing to buy and nothing to install, so it works on a school laptop or a tablet at the kitchen table. Progress saves in the browser, and no one can message you while you play.
It’s good practice, but it isn’t a substitute for learning on a real road.
When you’re ready for the driver’s seat
Wheelabout puts you behind the wheel on the same roads: roundabouts, traffic lights and the turn across oncoming traffic, marked the way a driving test marks you.