Maze
Trace the way out with your eyes
Play online — no app to installFree printable worksheets
Saerok is a brain-training playground where games that help with early dementia and mild cognitive decline are free to play. It works on a computer, a tablet or a phone, and if the screen is hard to use you can print the puzzles instead.
Download the worksheets (PDF)
Download and print straight away — no sign-up, no email. Each file holds four worksheets and the answer sheets.
These files are prepared in advance, so they always hold the same puzzles. For a fresh set every time, use “Print puzzles” on the site itself.
Five levels
- 1. First steps — 5×5 maze · a simple route
- 2. Gentle — 7×7 maze
- 3. Easy — 9×9 maze
- 4. Normal — 12×12 maze · plenty of turnings
- 5. Hard — 15×15 maze · plenty of dead ends
Scoring
| Level | Level 1 is 5×5 · Level 2 is 7×7 · Level 3 is 9×9 · Level 4 is 12×12 · Level 5 is 15×15 |
|---|---|
| How to move | Press one of the four arrows. On a phone you can also swipe across the maze, and on a computer the keyboard arrows work too |
| Straight runs walk themselves | One press carries you along until the path turns or branches, so you never have to tap twenty times square by square |
| Getting out | Up to 600 points · 600 for getting out, and part of it for how close you got |
| Time bonus | Up to 300 points · only if you get out, in proportion to the time left |
| Short-route bonus | Up to 100 points · the closer to the shortest route, the higher |
| Hint penalty | 50 points off per hint (it shows the next five squares of the way) |
| If you hit a wall | Nothing happens. It costs you nothing, so press away as much as you like |
| Level bonus | Normal +100, Hard +250 (when you get out) |
| Top score | Levels 1–3: 1,000 · Normal: 1,100 · Hard: 1,250 |
| When time runs out | You keep the points for how far you got, and the shortest way is shown as a green line |
I went looking online for puzzles for my mother, who lives with dementia, and found it far too hard to find good ones — so I made these for her. I am putting them here in the hope that they help someone else too.