Slipstream

How to Play

• Unlike every other maze on this site, Slipstream is not the same for everyone — every single race generates a brand new set of four lanes on the spot, seeded by the exact moment you start. Hit a level button again and you get a completely different track, even seconds later.
• You're in Lane 1, at the top. Three rivals occupy Lanes 2 through 4 below you. All four lanes are separate mazes, generated independently — nothing is shared between them except the moment the race starts.
• Every lane is the same length, three cells tall and long enough that it takes real navigation to cross. Move the brass marker (you) to the right edge of your own lane — that's your finish line.
• The rivals move on their own, always along the shortest possible route through their own maze — they never make mistakes. Their pace is randomized fresh every race within a window set by level and day — you never know beforehand exactly which speed you'll get, but the range itself gets tighter and faster as both go up. At the hardest combination, Extreme on a Sunday, the fastest possible rival finishes in about 18 seconds.
• The moment you reach your own finish line, your own input stops — but the race itself keeps going. The camera switches to follow whichever rival is still furthest ahead, so you can watch the rest play out.
• Once only one lane is left unfinished — yours or a rival's — a 10-second countdown begins. If that last lane doesn't finish before it runs out, the whole race ends right there. If it's you who's left, that means you can DNF: you can lose even after everyone else looks slow, so don't dawdle once you're the only one left.
• Finishing your own lane still counts as a solve for your streak, regardless of placement — a DNF (running out the clock as the last lane standing) does not.
• Every racer leaves a live trail behind them in their own color, visible the whole race, not just at the end.
• Every lane is scattered with power-ups, placed differently in each of the four lanes — whoever passes over one, player or rival, triggers it. 👻 Phase, 🌀 Warp / 💫 Mega Warp, 🛡️ Shield, 🧲 Magnet, and 🍀 Comeback only ever help whoever grabs them.
• 👻 Phase lets you ignore walls entirely for 5 seconds — cut straight through your own maze in any direction, though you're still confined to your own lane's rows and columns. If a rival grabs it, since true wall-phasing doesn't mean anything to a fixed-path AI, they get a modest forward burst instead.
• ❄️ Freeze, 🐌 Slow Field, ⏪ Rewind, and 🔀 Swap work the other way — they target every OTHER racer, never the one who picked it up, so a rival grabbing one can hinder you just as easily as you can hinder them. 🔄 Reverse only ever does anything if a rival picks it up — it inverts your own controls, so there's nobody for it to affect if you grab it yourself.
• 🛡️ Shield blocks the very next attack aimed at you, then it's gone — 🍀 Comeback gives a bigger warp the further behind last place you are — 🧲 Magnet auto-collects anything you walk near, not just what you land on exactly — 🔀 Swap trades places (by progress, not literal position) with whoever's currently leading, unless they're shielded, in which case it just fizzles.
• 💣 Trap Drop plants a hidden hazard at your own current spot — since each lane belongs to only one racer, only you can ever trigger it later by backtracking onto it. 🎲 Mystery looks the same every time but resolves into a random one of everything else the instant you grab it.
• None of these ever block a cell or change the maze itself — worst case from getting hit is a delay, never a dead end, so the race always stays winnable.
• A rival that falls meaningfully behind will start actively hunting for a nearby power-up instead of walking straight to the finish — expect them to make a comeback attempt if you build too big a lead.
• The track gets longer through the week — Monday's the easiest, Sunday's the hardest — and the rivals get faster right along with it. Pick a level, Beginner through Extreme — it makes the maze itself more tangled and pushes rival pace faster too, on top of whatever the day already adds.
• Use arrow keys or swipe to move. Come back daily to build your streak.