Maze
PuzzleHow to Play
Goal: Steer your dot from the top-left start to the orange exit at the bottom-right as fast as you can.
Controls: Use the arrow keys on desktop, or swipe in any direction on mobile.
Rules: You cannot move through walls. Each maze is generated fresh, the timer starts on your first move, and your fastest solve is saved on this device.
About Maze
Maze puzzles are far older than video games, the labyrinth is one of humanity's most ancient designs, from the Greek myth of the Minotaur to hedge mazes in Renaissance gardens. The digital version strips the idea to its skeleton: a start, an exit, and a tangle of corridors generated fresh every game, so no two runs are the same.
Generated mazes have a secret worth knowing: most maze algorithms produce 'perfect' mazes, meaning exactly one path exists between any two points, with no loops. That guarantees a solution and makes classic techniques like wall-following genuinely reliable, your job is to find the path faster than brute force would.
Maze solving technique
- Try wall-following: keep one hand on the right (or left) wall and never let go. In a perfect maze it always finds the exit eventually.
- Scan from the exit backward when you can see the whole maze, exits often have fewer approach corridors than entrances.
- Mentally mark dead ends as filled-in. Every corridor you eliminate shrinks the real maze.
- At junctions, prefer passages heading toward the exit's side of the board first; backtrack systematically, not randomly.
- For speed runs, plan two or three turns ahead of your current position, moving and scanning at once is the skill.
FAQ
Does the right-hand rule always work?
In any simply-connected ('perfect') maze, yes: hugging one wall traces the full boundary and must pass the exit. It can be slow, it walks dead ends too, but it cannot fail unless the maze contains loops or a detached exit, which generated mazes here do not.
Is every generated maze actually solvable?
Yes. Standard generation algorithms carve the maze as a spanning tree of the grid, which mathematically guarantees exactly one route between start and exit. The randomness changes the shape of the route, never its existence.
How can I get faster at mazes?
Stop looking at your own position. Fast solvers read ahead, tracing the corridor visually to its next junction while their fingers travel the part already solved. Treat your eyes and your movement as two separate runners.
Does this maze game work on phones?
Yes, swipe to move through the corridors on mobile, or use the arrow keys on desktop. The maze scales to your screen, and a fresh layout is one tap away when you finish.
