Mazelog

Last Month's Solution - August 2026

Here's the maze given for last month's Mazelog competition, together with the solution and details of the correct entries.

Rooknights (easy)

This is a chess maze with a twist (see Chess Mazes). The pieces are Rooknights - they alternately behave as a rook and a knight.

Start at the Rooknight in the top left corner moving like a rook, horizontally or vertically. From there you can move to the Rooknight to its right, or to the one below.

You are now jumping like a knight. Move to the next Rooknight, and then change back to moving like a rook. Continue, alternating between rook and knight moves, until you have found the shortest path to the finishing square in the bottom right corner:

• Congratulations! Maze completed in %n steps and %s seconds.

Click to trace the route and solve the maze.

Rooknights Solution

Here's the 11-step solution:

The sequence of cells is as follows:

1 6 17 16 7 10 19 4 15 13 20 25

Correct Entries

Correct entries were received from: Daniel Goikhman, nhatngan, Tomislav K, and skeeto.