Laser Maze Puzzle — Play Free Online

Laser Maze Puzzle is a browser puzzle game built around a simple idea: there is a laser, there is a maze, and you have to work out how to get the one through the other. It sits on the Puzzle & Brain shelf, which makes it a change of pace from the reflex-heavy games that fill most of this site.

If you came here for Doodle Jump, you already know the appeal of a game you can pick up in seconds. Laser Maze Puzzle keeps that quick start but swaps the constant tapping for thinking. Nothing chases you, so you can stop, look at the board and plan before you commit to a move.

It runs directly in the browser with nothing to install, and the same page works on desktop and on a phone.

How to play

On a keyboard, the arrow keys or WASD move your piece, and the mouse is used to aim and to select things on screen. On a phone or tablet you tap and swipe instead. Press Play on the page and the game loads in the frame above.

A level starts with you looking at the layout before you act. Treat each board as a small problem: find where the beam starts, find where it needs to end up, and think about what stands in the way. Move one thing at a time and watch how the beam responds before making the next change.

Tips

• Work backwards from the goal. Knowing where the beam has to finish often narrows down the last move before the first one.
• Change one thing per attempt. If you move several pieces at once and it fails, you cannot tell which move caused it.
• If a level stops making sense, restart it rather than patching a messy position. A clean start is usually faster than untangling a bad one.
• Take a short break on a stubborn board. The answer is often obvious when you come back.

Similar games on Doodle Jump

For another game that rewards thinking, try Fireboy and Watergirl, where two characters have to cooperate through trap-filled rooms. Bloons Tower Defense 2 is also about planning, though it is about where you place defences rather than how a beam travels. If you want to go back to fast reflexes afterwards, Helix Jump and Doodle Jump itself are one tap away.

Laser Maze Puzzle suits short sessions: a few boards while you wait for something, or a slower game to balance the more frantic ones. It is free and needs no account.