Microbe (hard)
This maze first appeared as the monthly maze competition for January 2015.
This is a link maze (see Link Mazes) in which you alternate between matching shapes and matching colours. In this maze each move you make can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal.
Start from the orange shape in the top left corner, and move to a cell containing the same shape. In fact there's only one option: the cell four steps to the right.
Next, move to a cell containing a shape of the same colour. Again, there's only one possibility: the cell three steps down.
Continue in this way, alternating between matching shapes and matching colours, and find the shortest route to the white shape in the bottom right corner:
- Congratulations! Maze completed in %n steps and %s seconds.
Click to trace the route and solve the maze.
Solution
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