Today's maze
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can you find the shortest way out?
№ 1Mazely is a free daily maze puzzle with a twist. You can see the whole maze, and it has loops, so there's more than one way from the start to the exit. Your job is to find the shortest one.
Draw your route from the blue start dot to the exit square by dragging through the maze, or use the arrow buttons or your keyboard's arrow keys. Drag back along your route to shorten it, or press Back a step. Both are free, and so is Restart. The route counter shows how many steps your route takes. When your route reaches the exit, a Finish button appears: press it when you're happy, and your route is locked in. You don't have to finish the moment you arrive, so take a second look for a shorter way first. Each day's maze has exactly one shortest route, and there's usually a tempting alternative only a couple of steps longer. The maze is 9×9 from Monday to Thursday, and 11×11 with more loops from Friday to Sunday.
The shortest route earns 12 points. The length of the shortest route stays hidden until you finish, so you're judging it by eye. Every other route to the exit is an even number of steps longer: two steps longer earns 10, four earns 8, then 6, 4 and 2 at ten steps longer. A route more than ten steps longer earns nothing. Stuck? The helper lights up the next step of a shortest way out from the end of your route, but it halves the day's score.
Your play streak counts the days in a row you've played, and your solved streak counts the days in a row you've finished within ten steps of the shortest route. Play seven days running and you earn a 7-point bonus, or 14 points if you solved all seven. Miss a day and the streaks start again. A new maze arrives every day at midnight UTC.
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