Leximaze

The game

A letter maze that will not hold still. You draw your path from the entrance through open corridors, spelling words as you go — but the corridor you need is rarely where you need it, so you shift whole rows and columns to drag the letters into your path. Every shift rotates the board's letters; nothing is created or destroyed, only rearranged — the multiset is conserved, and the shift budget is the clock.

Three boards a day

Each mode is its own daily, seeded fresh for the whole world:

• Gates — one true path to the exit, red gates barring it. Play each gate's word to open its wall — any order — then spell PORTAL to leave.
• Regions — the maze in locked bands. Play the region's word to unlock the next zone; the board opens downward as you earn it.
• Word Search — the open grid: ten target words, five letters and up, and a deep shift budget to hunt them with.

How it plays

1. Draw a path from the green entrance through open corridors — orthogonal moves, release to bank the word.
2. Shift rows and columns with the arrows to bring letters to your route. Locked letters — the ones you have already used — stay put when you shift.
3. Spend shifts like money: the clear bonus scales with how few you used, and undo takes back words, never shifts.

Worth a closer look

• The maze is real: a generated labyrinth with a genuine route — the shifting is not decoration, it is how you reroute a topology that starts against you.
• Guaranteed spellable: every gate word, the exit word and the targets are planted and supply-checked at deal time — the board is never short the letters it demands.
• Three dailies from one date: Gates, Regions and Word Search are three different puzzles on the same day, not one maze wearing three hats.