Quiz maze
Every room asks a question and every answer is a door. The maze walks them to the next room, so the thinking is the hard part.
When to use it
Times-tables and mental-maths practice in the last fifteen minutes of a lesson. A revision round before a test, where every wrong door explains itself on the way back. A homework task for a class that would skip a worksheet but still has to answer each question to reach the exit.
What makes it this
Built on the Maze generator with these changed. Everything else is the default.
- Offer a shortcut to the next hall
Puts a “Walk there” button beside the next unanswered question, which walks the player straight to it, and lets a tap on the board walk the whole way. Off, a tap walks to the next fork and they find their own way through the corridors.
In the builder: How it plays › General
- Sections
How big each section of maze between two halls is — and so how far a wrong door walks you before the wall.
In the builder: The questions
Preview
View only — copy it to play.Mental maths maze: every door is a sum
Every room in this maze asks a sum, and each answer is a door. The right door leads on; a wrong one drops a gate behind you and shuts that room for five seconds — long enough to think again. Only your first door at each room is scored.
12 questions
Why the example is built this way
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Every wrong door explains itself.
After each step players see the note on the door they took, right or wrong. Make each wrong option the answer to a different sum and say which one, so a dead end teaches something.
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Twelve questions, the easy ones first.
Times-table facts they know cold open the maze, with rounding, decimals and a time sum at the end. Move the right door around too, so nobody learns that the second door keeps working.
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Five seconds shut after a dead end.
With the walking done for them, the pause is all a wrong door costs. For a class that guesses its way through, choose Doors shut for 15 seconds under After a dead end.
Build it yourself
- 1 Open the Maze builder and fill in the The questions tab.
- 2 Change the settings under What makes it this. Each one says where it is in the builder.
- 3 Share the link with your players, or embed the activity in your own site.
Or skip the building: copy this example and swap in your own content.