Four Corners

How to Play

• Unlike the rest of the site, this one draws a brand new maze every single race — reload or hit "Try again" and you'll never see the exact same course twice.
• You and the three rivals — Compass, Sextant and Astrolabe — each start in one of the four corners. Who starts where is randomized fresh every race, and everyone starts at the same moment.
• Every racer has a different exit, but all four exits sit roughly the same distance from their own starting corner — so nobody has an easy run, and the routes cross in the middle.
• The camera follows you as you move — nothing is deliberately hidden, but you'll only see rivals when they're near enough to be in view. Finishing zooms out to reveal the whole map.
• Every racer leaves a colored trail behind it. Where two trails have crossed the same ground, their colors mix.
• Rivals move on their own tick clock, independent of you — each is drawn from 10 skill levels (1 sluggish, 10 razor-sharp), reshuffled fresh every race. Early in the week that draw skews toward the weaker end; by the weekend it skews toward the sharper end, so rivals get tougher through the week on top of the maze itself growing.
• Your race — and every rival's — starts the instant you make your first move.
• Reach your own exit to finish — but the race isn't over yet. The camera switches to follow whichever rival is still out there, and results only go up once everyone's in or time runs out.
• Once only one rival is still racing, a 10-second clock starts. If you haven't finished yet, that's your deadline too — miss it and it's a DNF. If you've already finished, it's just capping how long you wait on the last straggler.
• The maze gets trickier through the week — Monday's the easiest, Sunday's the hardest, though it's always a fixed 35×35 grid.
• Use arrow keys / swipe / the on-screen pad.
• Come back daily to build your streak.