Airways Maze

Airways Maze gives the maze genre a pilot’s point of view. A plane needs to cross the screen from left to right, the space in between is full of blocks, and your job is to create the airway it will follow. The route must not collide with any block, so the path has to thread cleanly through every gap.

The puzzle is in designing that route. You look at where the blocks sit, find the openings between them and build an airway that passes through all of them in order. Each completed level unlocks the next, so the layouts build in difficulty as you move through the set and the gaps you need to find become less obvious.

There are 100 levels in the game, a solid run for a small arcade puzzle. The tags call it arcade and maze, and the format is easy to pick up: one plane, one direction, a field of obstacles and a route to find. It suits short sessions where you clear a few levels at a time and come back for more later.

1. Look at the blocks between the plane and the right side of the screen.
2. Find a route through the gaps from left to right.
3. Create the airway so it avoids every block.
4. Send the plane through and unlock the next level.

Trace the route from the right side back towards the plane. Starting at the end often shows which gap is the only real way through.