Tap or click and drag from the start to draw your path through the maze. On touch, you can lift and continue.
Inside this maze
A wrong branch in this square can travel much farther than it appears to. One detour leaves the answer at row 5, column 13 and reaches a dead end 49 moves away, at row 18 in the same column. Returning from that endpoint adds another 49 moves. The correct route itself takes 352 steps, with 222 turns and no same-direction run beyond 6 steps. The distance between two squares on the page says little about the corridor connecting them.
Use this puzzle to practice recording where a detour began. A small mark at the entry junction is more useful than a heavy line across the entire rejected branch, because it identifies the decision to avoid repeating. The 25-by-25 format leaves 272 squares outside the answer, so substantial blank areas remain on a solved copy. Work toward the marked lower-right finish, and use the separate solution to review an unsuccessful branch only after tracing it back to its attachment.
Maze facts
- Shortest route
- 352 steps
- Dead-end cells
- 71
- Junctions
- 68
- Braid setting
- 0%
Answer key
The solution SVG traces the single route from START to FINISH. Use the unmarked PDF for your attempt and keep the answer separate.