Maze Runner
Moves: 0Level: 1
- Category
- Puzzle
- Players
- 1
- Controls
- Keys / Swipe
- Grows
- Each level
- Loads
- Instant
Controls
| ↑ ↓ ← → | Move one step in that direction. |
| Swipe | Move using touch. |
| On-screen pad | Four-way pad for phones. |
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| ↑ ↓ ← → | Move one step in that direction. |
| Swipe | Move using touch. |
| On-screen pad | Four-way pad for phones. |
Maze Runner drops you at one corner of a maze and asks you to find the exit. Clear it and the next maze is bigger, so what starts as a few seconds of wandering becomes a genuine navigation problem several levels in. There are no enemies and no timer, just walls and the route through them.
Mazes are one of the oldest puzzle forms there is, and they endure because solving one uses a kind of thinking nothing else quite matches: holding a map in your head while moving through it. The satisfaction of spotting the way out before you reach it never really gets old.
Try the wall-following rule when you are lost. Keep your hand on one wall, always the same one, and follow it. In most simple mazes this is guaranteed to reach the exit eventually, though rarely by the shortest path.
Look ahead from junctions rather than walking down every corridor. Standing at a fork and tracing each branch with your eyes costs nothing, while walking into a dead end and back costs you a dozen moves on your score.
Watch the overall direction of the exit. Passages that curve back toward where you started are usually dead ends, so when two options look equal, take the one heading roughly toward the goal.
Remember the junctions you have already tried. On the larger mazes the most common time-waster is re-exploring a branch you already ruled out, so keep a rough mental note of which turnings are exhausted.
Yes. Each one you solve is followed by a larger maze, so the difficulty climbs steadily.
No. You are scored on the number of moves, so thinking costs nothing.
Yes, every maze is generated with a guaranteed path from start to exit.
Keeping one hand on a single wall and following it. It is slow but reliably escapes most simple mazes.
No. Maze Runner runs entirely inside this page, so it starts the moment the page opens. There is nothing to download, no plugin, and no account to create.