Magnet Maze

About the Game

Magnet Maze is an original magnetic logic puzzle with 50 handcrafted levels. A polarized steel ball sits in a maze ringed with red north and blue south magnets. Tap a magnet to pulse it: its field runs along its row and column, straight through stone walls, and grabs the first piece of steel it meets. Opposite poles pull the ball toward the magnet, like poles push it away, and the ball slides until something stops it. Your goal is to slide it across the swirling exit vortex. Five chapters build on that one rule: Field School teaches pulling, pushing and flip pads; Lanes & Shuttles adds one-way lanes and shuttles that step along their tracks with every move; Circuits & Hazards brings pressure plates, steel doors, crates, pits and electrified floor; Polarity Lab mixes force gates, flip pads and energy cores you must collect before the vortex opens; and Magnetar ends with expert boards and a 29-move final. Every level's par is the proven minimum number of moves, found by an exhaustive search of the game's own rules.

How to Play

Each board has one steel ball, shown with its pole, and magnets set into the walls: red magnets are north, blue magnets are south. Tap a magnet to pulse it. The pulse travels along the magnet's row and column — through stone walls — and acts on the first piece of steel in each direction. If the ball's pole is opposite the magnet's, it is pulled toward the magnet; if the poles match, it is pushed away. Either way it slides until the next cell is blocked, so pillars, crates and walls decide where it stops. Slide the ball across the green vortex to escape. Hover over a magnet (or select it with the arrow keys) to see an arrow showing what a pulse will move. Along the way you'll meet flip pads that swap the ball's pole mid-slide, force gates that only let one pole through, steel crates that are always pulled and that shield the ball from a field, pressure plates that open steel doors, pits that crates can fill, electrified floor, shuttles that step once per move, and energy cores that must be collected before the vortex opens. Matching the level's par earns three stars.

Controls

• Tap / Click a magnetPulse it
• ← → ↑ ↓Choose a magnet · Enter / Space — Pulse
• UUndo last move · R — Restart level
• Esc / PPause

Features

• ✓50 handcrafted levels in five chapters
• ✓Par for every level proven optimal by exhaustive search
• ✓Flip pads, force gates, crates, plates, steel doors, pits and shuttles
• ✓Move preview, undo and instant restart
• ✓Up to three stars per level with saved best results
• ✓Plays with touch, mouse or keyboard

Gameplay Tips

• •Read each row and column before you move: a lane with a red end and a blue end only lets the ball travel one way.
• •Pushes are your brakes — a like-pole magnet parks the ball against the nearest wall or pillar.
• •After rolling over a flip pad, every pull becomes a push. Re-read the board.
• •A crate in line with a magnet takes the whole pulse, so you can use crates to shield the ball.
• •Shuttles return to the same spots every few moves — count ahead before crossing their tracks.

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