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About Lantern Labyrinth

Lantern Labyrinth is a free maze game you play right in your browser on Playdonya, on a phone or on a desktop computer. You are a small lantern-bearer standing in a maze that is completely dark. Your lantern lights only a few cells around you, and the light does not pass through walls, so every corridor has to be discovered step by step. Places you have already seen stay faintly remembered on screen, which slowly turns the darkness into a map you drew yourself.

Each level, called a depth, hides a glowing stairway down. Coloured doors block the way, and every door opens only with the key of the same colour, usually tucked away in a far dead end. Your lantern burns oil the whole time: when the bar runs dry the light goes out and the run is over. Oil flasks hidden in dead ends refill it, and finding the stairs tops it up a little too. From depth three on, wandering shadows roam the corridors. You can spot their red eyes even in the dark, and if one reaches you it drinks a big gulp of your oil.

On a touch screen, swipe to run along a corridor until the next junction, hold and drag to steer, or simply tap a remembered spot to walk there. On a keyboard use the arrow keys or WASD; holding a key follows bends in a corridor automatically.

Tips: when you enter a new depth, glance at the faint glow of the stairway to know which way to head. Grab keys before wandering far, because doors usually sit on the direct route. Dead ends are worth checking when your oil is getting low, since that is where flasks hide. Clearing a depth quickly earns a speed bonus, and gems add points along the way. The daily challenge gives everyone the same sequence of mazes, so you can compare your route with friends.