The Bell Lap

How to Play

• Unlike every other maze on this site, The Bell Lap is not the same for everyone — every single race generates a brand new set of four loops 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.
• Each lane is shaped like a closed loop — right along the top straight, down one end, left along the bottom, back up to where you started. The finish sits right next to your start, but there's a wall directly between them: the only way there is the long way around, a full lap. Move the gold marker (you) to break the tape.
• 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.
• 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.