Mazelog

Last Month's Solution - April 2026

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

Missing Five (medium)

This a type of Jumping Maze (see Jumping Mazes). The number in each cell specifies how far you can jump in any direction, horizontally or vertically (but not diagonally). Start in the top left corner and find a route to the bottom right corner in the smallest number of jumps.

However, there's a slight problem: the illustrator missed out five of the numbers. To solve the maze you'll first have to work out the missing numbers.

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Missing Five Solution

The key to finding the missing numbers is to work backwards from the goal. The only numbers that can reach the goal are the 4 on square 21 and the 6 on square 43, but the latter has nothing that can reach it. The only square that could reach the 4 on square 21 is the empty square 16, so that must be a 5.

Likewise, the only number that can reach square 16 is the 2 on square 30, and the only square that could reach that is the empty square 34, so that must be a 4.

Continuing to work backwards you can fill in the other three missing numbers, and then solving the maze is relatively easy.

Here's the 20-step solution:

The sequence of cells is as follows:

1 29 32 11 14 42 37 9 13 27 25 24 38 40 12 33 34 30 16 21 49

Correct Entries

Correct entries were received from: nh­t ngân, skeeto, and Daniel Goikhman.