Mirror Maze is a free online hall-of-mirrors game you play from inside: you see the maze through your own eyes and walk it one room at a time. Most of the walls are mirrors, so every corridor seems to run on forever and the green EXIT door shows up in places it is not. Some panels are clear glass, which you can see through but not walk through. The clues are the ones a real mirror maze gives you — your own reflection, a sign that reads backwards, the glint on a pane — and every panel you walk into gets a chalk cross. Twelve generated mazes grow from 4×4 to 10×10, with glass from maze 3 and dimly lit halls in mazes 7, 10 and 12. No download, no sign-up, and it plays on phones.
How to play Mirror Maze
- You start at the entrance of a hall of mirrors and see it through your own eyes. Somewhere on the outer wall is a green EXIT door; walking out through it clears the maze.
- Walk with the up arrow (or W) and step back with the down arrow (S). Left and right turn you a quarter at a time. On a phone or tablet use the pad under the view, tap the left or right side of the view to turn and the middle to walk, or swipe.
- Most walls are mirrors. A corridor that seems to run on may be your own corridor reflected back at you: if you can see yourself — the figure in the yellow raincoat with a lantern — you are looking at a mirror.
- Signs reflect too. A real exit reads EXIT with its arrow on the right; a reflection reads backwards. Clear glass panels have a metal rail top and bottom and a diagonal glint: you can see through them but not walk through them. Red velvet curtains are plain walls.
- Walking into a mirror, a pane or a curtain is a bump. It costs a move, and the panel gets a chalk cross so you never mistake it again. The map beside the view fills in the rooms you have walked and the panels you have marked.
- Your score is your moves — steps plus bumps. The marks for three and two stars are shown above the view; any way out earns one star and unlocks the next maze.
Tips
- Turn to face every way before you walk. Turning is free, and a mirror straight ahead always shows you yourself, however far down the corridor it is.
- Look for the pillars. A steel pillar stands at every corner of every room, so counting pillars along a corridor tells you how many rooms deep it really goes — a reflection doubles the count.
- An EXIT sign that reads backwards is a reflection of the real door. Work out which mirror it is in, and the real door is on the far side of where you are standing, the same distance back.
- Glass is the trap: through a pane the corridor looks open, and the far wall is real. Watch for the rail along the bottom of the pane and the glint across it before you step.
- Keep one hand on the wall, in your head: following the left-hand or right-hand wall through every turn will always reach the exit of these mazes, at the cost of extra steps.
- In the dim halls you only see a few rooms ahead, so your reflection only shows in a mirror that is close. Let the map do the remembering there.
FAQ
Is Mirror Maze free to play?
Yes. Mirror Maze is free to play online in your browser, with no download, no account and no in-game purchases.
How do you tell a mirror from an open corridor?
Look for yourself. A mirror straight ahead shows your own reflection — a figure in a yellow raincoat holding a lantern — at twice the mirror’s distance (in the dim halls, only when the mirror is close), and an open corridor never shows you. Two more clues: signs in a mirror read backwards, and the pillars at the corners of every room repeat in a reflection, so a corridor looks deeper than the maze could be.
What is the difference between the mirrors and the glass?
A mirror shows you the maze behind you; glass shows you the maze behind it. You cannot walk through either. Glass panes have a metal rail top and bottom and a diagonal glint across them, and the maze really does continue on the other side — just not from where you are standing.
Can I see the exit from the start?
Not straight ahead. In every one of the 12 mazes the real exit door is out of direct sight from the entrance, which the game tests before release. You may well see a reflection of it, though — and a reflection reads backwards.
How are the stars worked out?
Your score is moves: every step, plus every bump into a panel. The marks were measured rather than guessed. Two explorer bots that do not know the maze walk each one 41 times: one only learns a panel by walking into it, the other also reads the view the way the game draws it (it recognises a mirror by its reflection and a pane right beside it by its glint). Three stars is the second bot’s median, two stars the first bot’s.
Does Mirror Maze work on a phone or tablet?
Yes. Use the arrow pad under the view, tap the left or right side of the view to turn and the middle to walk, or swipe up, down, left and right. It plays upright or sideways.
How is Mirror Maze different from Laser Reflect?
Laser Reflect is a top-down puzzle about turning mirrors to steer a laser beam. In Mirror Maze the mirrors are fixed and you are inside the maze: you walk it in first person, and the puzzle is working out which of the corridors you can see are real.