Short Cuts
Short Cuts is a node-and-track route puzzle: move the blue marble along numbered tracks to the starred node while red blocker marbles sit in the way. Every move by any marble adds that track’s number to your distance, and each puzzle awards up to three stars for finishing close to the optimal route. A real candidate session recording and Revelian’s own 2016 assessment brief both confirm 7 puzzles under a single 4-minute clock.
How to Play
Click a marble, then an adjacent node, to move it one track.
Every move adds the track number to your distance — blockers count too.
Get the blue marble to the star; fewer track-units means more stars.
Seven puzzles under one 4-minute clock; Skip, Reset and Undo are available.
In the real assessment
Puzzle count, the 4-minute shared clock, the three buttons and the distance-based star tiers are first-hand confirmed from a candidate session recording and Revelian documentation (a widely copied “7 minutes” figure is wrong). Exact star thresholds per puzzle are only partly observed, so this build uses optimal+2 / optimal+4 as defaults. Candidates consistently call this the hardest Cognify game.
Skills Assessed
Cognify practice is free — create a free account to start playing.
Employer guides
Companies reported to use Short Cuts
Candidates report seeing Short Cuts in assessments for these employers. Game lineups can change by role, region, and recruiting cycle, so check your invitation before practicing.
Independent Cognify-style practice. GameAssessmentPrep is not affiliated with or endorsed by Criteria Corp. Employers configure the battery (the US default runs three games; the full suite runs six); timing and scoring vary — your invitation is authoritative.