How to Play Maze

The objective

Maze rewards route reading rather than speed alone. The fastest-looking corridor can lead deep into a dead end, especially on Medium and Hard.

Rules and controls

1. Step 1. Move from the purple start marker to the green finish.
2. Step 2. Hold and drag through open corridors, swipe on touch, click an adjacent cell, or use Arrow/WASD keys.
3. Step 3. Hard boards increase decision density, deep false branches and late-route traps — not only board size.
4. Step 4. Hint draws a short next-route guide. Solution draws the full route and makes that attempt practice-only.

Easy, Medium and Hard

Difficulty on Snapoki is designed to change the reasoning pressure, not simply enlarge the board. Harder levels may add deeper route dependencies, fewer clues, more deceptive choices or a higher true minimum solution length depending on the game.

Strategy that helps

• Scan junctions before committing to a long corridor.
• Use landmarks such as unusual wall shapes to avoid rechecking the same branch.
• On Hard, treat long uninterrupted movement as a risk: deceptive routes often hide the costly decision farther ahead.

Common mistakes

• Dragging too fast through a junction and entering the wrong branch.
• Repeatedly revisiting the same dead end instead of remembering its entrance.
• Using Solution before you have tried a Hint, which turns the board into practice-only play.

Hints, Solution and ranked play

Hint gives a limited concrete next action and keeps the attempt eligible for ranking with a points penalty. Solution is a study tool: it reveals a complete practice guide on the board, so that attempt becomes practice-only. Starting a New Puzzle returns you to a fresh ranked board when signed in.

Daily Challenge

The Daily Challenge gives every player the same Maze board for a given UTC date and difficulty. Complete Easy, Medium and Hard to finish that game’s daily set. A Daily difficulty awards its ranked reward only once per account for that day.