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Maze Runner
Navigate a new maze from the starting dot to the star. Use the direction buttons or arrow keys, and request a shortest-path hint.
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How to play
The gold dot marks you; the green star is the exit. Move through the pale corridors without crossing dark walls. Arrow keys work when the maze is focused, and the on-screen buttons work with mouse or touch.
The maze is generated by carving connected passages from a solid grid, so the exit is always reachable. The hint highlights the next cell on a shortest route from your current position.
Maze-solving strategy
At each junction, distinguish between a route that merely moves closer to the goal and a route that is actually connected to it. Visual closeness can be misleading when a wall blocks the direct path.
- Notice junctions and dead ends rather than memorising every square.
- When exploring manually, keep a mental or visual record of branches already tested.
- The hint shows the next cell on a shortest route from your current position, so compare it with the route you expected.
Pathfinding and problem solving
Mazes turn spatial reasoning into a search problem: from the current position, choose among legal neighbouring moves until a route reaches the goal. The same idea appears in graph-search algorithms, route planning and many sequential puzzles.
Explore sequential-movement puzzles or try the Sliding Fifteen.