Instructions
Daily Labyrinth
Three mazes from the day's seed, small to large. Coloured doors block the only way through; the matching key is always in the part you can already reach. Gems pay extra, and a pale ghost shows your best run on the same seed.
- Year
- 2023
- Era
- Daily Puzzle
- Genre
- Puzzle / Daily maze
Free, no sign-up. Keyboard, touch or gamepad.
How to play
- Arrows or WASD walk, and holding a key keeps you walking.
- Walk onto a key to pick it up and into a door of the same colour to open it.
- Esc pauses.
On touch
- Press and hold anywhere on the screen: the walker heads toward your finger, one straight line at a time.
Every run starts on the title screen. Pause any time with P or the pause button; calm mode removes flashes and screen shake.
Maker’s note
Each maze is a perfect maze (one route between any two cells), with 1, 2 and 3 doors on the route from entrance to exit. A test checks, for every one of hundreds of seeds, that each door cuts the exit off, that each key sits where earlier keys already reach, and that an independent search finds the same shortest route. A maze pays 250 plus up to 300 for speed against par plus 30 per gem, and a maze not finished in 60, 100 or 150 seconds is shown and skipped. The mazes, doors, keys and gems all come from the seed, so the daily is the same for everyone. The ghost is the best run you have saved for that seed in this browser; it is only drawn, never part of the score.
The Eracade workshop
Target scores
- 1200
- 2450
- 3700
- 4950
- 51,200
- 61,450
- 71,700
- 81,950
Each target is a step up. Beat them all and you have outplayed the workshop.
The Daily Puzzle era, 2020–2026
One shared puzzle a day and a result worth passing on, in calm colour with soft, rounded edges.
High scores
The top ten runs are saved in this browser with your three initials. Nothing is uploaded unless you submit a ranked run, so clearing site data clears the table.
