The Riddle of the Maze

Riddle of the Maze is a computer adaptation of the 1985 puzzle book Maze: Solve the World's Most Challenging Puzzle by Christopher Manson.

The player starts out outside a building. The building is a maze that consists of a number of rooms. Each room is connected to other rooms through a number of doors. The goal of the game is to navigate to the building's center room (number 45) and then back to the starting room (number 1) in the smallest possible path (16 steps). The rooms all have different clues and the puzzle solving involve examining the graphics and from that determine what door to pick. Clues can refer to a specific door in a room or it might be related to other clues and together indicate a path. The game features a narrator that guides the player through the maze while telling its story. Once the player has made it through the maze in the shortest path, he can try to solve a final riddle in room 45. The answer to it can be found along the shortest path.

Added July 6, 2020
Published By Interplay Productions, Inc.
Developed By Fathom Pictures, Inc.
Title screen (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
Outside the maze (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
We're going in... (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
Room 1 - we have four doors to choose between (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
We go to room 20 where we find a turtle. Hmm... (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
An excavation (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
The storeroom (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
What's behind the curtain? (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
The backwards room (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
The room without floor (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
What could this be? (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
A room full of portraits (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
A band plays among the ruins (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
Who's that moving around? (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
The time room (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
A crown and pictures of a man (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
Yes, no or maybe? (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
Who lives here? (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
That girl is somewhat scary... (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
A room for giants? (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
A hole in the floor (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
We're going further down (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
You don't want to slip here (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
A big bell (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
In the caves (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
A room of darkness with no doors. Game over, I guess. (Macintosh) from mobygames.com

Year of Release:
1994

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Genre(s):
Puzzle Adventure

Graphic Style:
2D

Camera View:
First-Person

Control Type:
Point and Click

Other Tags:
Speech

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