Word maze gameMaze Wordz — one of ten games in Padamz
A maze chase with a word buried in it. The carrots scattered through the burrow carry the letters of one word, and you have to collect them while foxes work the corridors looking for you.
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Swipe, or use the arrow keys. Every carrot you eat adds its letter to the word forming along the top, so the maze doubles as the puzzle — you can see which letter is still missing and plan a route to it rather than wandering.
Foxes patrol and give chase. Two things beat them: a carrot box, which hides you while one walks past, and a gold coin, which turns the chase around for a few seconds and lets you clear a corridor you had been avoiding all round.
Three things that help
- Plan the whole route before the first move. Grabbing the nearest carrot usually strands you in a dead end with a fox at the mouth of it.
- Learn where the boxes are before you need one. Looking for cover with a fox already behind you is how most runs end.
- Save the coin. It is worth far more clearing the last two carrots out of a guarded corridor than opening an easy one early.
Questions
Is it timed?
There is no clock. The pressure is the foxes, not a countdown, so you can stop and plan a route whenever you like.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. It is played in landscape and takes swipes; on a desktop the arrow keys do the same job.
Is it free?
Yes, with no sign-up and nothing to install.
Where it sits in Padamz
Padamz is ten word games in one place, free and with no account. The spine is a daily word puzzle in ten languages — Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, English, Spanish and Dutch — with one hidden word a day and six tries at it. Maze Wordz is one of the nine games around it, and none of them are locked: you can play any of them the moment you arrive. There is an Android app and an iPhone app as well, and everything keeps working offline once it has loaded.
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