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Maze Chase

A living lantern gathers the light-motes of a haunted undercroft while four shades hunt it through the galleries: take a sunstone and turn the hunt around.

About Maze Chase

Guide an enchanted lantern through a maze, gathering light while four shades hunt it. Learn how each pursues you and choose when to cross a dangerous corridor.

How to play

Goal: Gather every light-mote in the gallery.
How it ends: The gallery is cleared when the last mote is gathered; the run is lost when the shades catch the lantern three times.
Record: For every gallery, the ten best scores and the ten fastest clears, each proved by replaying the run.

Steer the lantern with the arrow keys, WASD, a swipe or the arrow pad: gather every mote in the gallery.
Keep clear of the shades: a touch puts your lantern out, and you have three.
Take a sunstone to turn the shades pale, then catch them for points before its light fails.

Worked example for Maze Chase — Worked example. See how the rules apply to a real position.

Controls

Input	Action
Arrows · WASD	Steer (a turn asked early waits for its corner)
Swipe · arrow pad	Steer on a touch screen
P · Escape	Pause (the run then counts as practice)
R · ↻	Start the gallery over

Good to know

Ranked results are checked by replaying your moves. Your bests stay in this browser.

Watch how to play

The rules, then The first gallery played start to finish. Played by an automated player at a person's pace; the narration is a synthetic voice. English captions and chapters on YouTube.