🌀 Maze Runner

How to play

You start as the purple dot in the green square at the top left of a randomly generated maze and have to reach the door at the bottom right. Walls block movement, so a step into one does nothing. Reach the door and the level counter rises and a larger maze is generated a moment later.

• Arrow keys — move one cell up, down, left or right.
• On-screen D-pad — the four arrow buttons below the maze do the same for touch and mouse.
• New Maze button — generates a fresh maze and sends the level counter back to 1.

Scoring

There are no points. Three numbers are tracked: the level, the steps taken and the seconds elapsed. Both counters reset with every maze, and the timer does not start until your first move, so you can study the layout for free. On reaching the door the message reports the steps and seconds that level took. The maze is 23 by 23 cells on level 1 and grows by two cells each way per level, stopping at 37 by 37 from level 8.

Tips

• The maze has no loops, so keeping one hand on the same wall the whole way through always reaches the exit.
• The start is always top left and the door always bottom right, so at a junction prefer down and right.
• Look before you move. The timer is frozen until your first step and tracing the route by eye costs nothing.
• Dead ends here are usually short, so a corridor that has run a long way without branching is probably the real route.

Frequently asked questions