Coin Maze Guide: Evade the Chaser and Collect Every Coin

Coin Maze is the game in Daily's rotation that most directly tests your ability to plan several steps ahead while managing an active threat. You guide a character through a sliding maze, collecting every coin on the board before a chaser catches you. Across three stages the chaser speeds up, the maze grows, and the coin layouts get trickier. This guide explains how the chaser behaves, how to plan efficient routes, and how to turn the maze geometry itself into a defensive tool.

Coin Maze places you and a chaser on a grid maze, and the whole maze slides when you move: swipe left and your character and every moveable element shift left together. You have to collect every coin while keeping distance from the chaser. Each Coin Maze session runs three stages of rising difficulty, and your score is your total completion time across all three, ranked on the World Rankings.

The chaser is not random; it runs a pursuit-evasion routine, moving toward your current position along the shortest open path. Once you see it as a predictable system rather than a looming threat, you can exploit it. If it is closing in horizontally, a vertical move forces it to recompute its whole route and briefly sends it the wrong way. Sudden perpendicular direction changes consistently buy more time than holding your current line. For a deeper look at how the chaser pathfinds and how to bait it, see our breakdown of chaser pathing strategy.

Before your first move in each stage, spend two or three seconds mapping the full coin layout. Find the coin farthest from your start and plan a route that sweeps through as many other coins as possible on the way to it. This S-curve approach minimizes total moves and, more importantly, minimizes the time you spend with the chaser at close range. Every extra move is extra exposure to the pursuit.

In later stages, wall clusters become your most valuable resource. Groups of walls that split the maze into quadrants create temporary safe zones by forcing the chaser onto a longer path to reach you. Use those windows aggressively to grab several coins in quick succession, then switch to evasion the instant the chaser breaks into your quadrant. Trying to keep collecting while it shares your quadrant is the single most common cause of failure in stages two and three.

Stage three brings a faster chaser and a more complex maze with coins deliberately placed in exposed spots. The key adjustment is to accept you will not collect in the cleanest possible order. Clear the coins in the safest accessible quadrant first, then push for exposed coins only when the chaser sits at a maximally distant position. Patience beats speed here; rushing exposed coins with the chaser nearby ends more runs than any other mistake.

Daily attributes Coin Maze to Logical Reasoning (40 percent), Working Memory (30 percent), Processing Speed (20 percent), and Pattern Recognition (10 percent), part of the six cognitive dimensions it tracks. The working memory load stands out: you have to track your position, the chaser's position, the remaining coins, and your safe corridors all at once. That kind of multi-track spatial control is closely tied to executive functions, the brain's system for planning and managing several demands together, and it is the same capacity we examine in our piece on working memory and puzzle games.

Coin Maze rewards players who stay one step ahead of the threat instead of reacting to it. Map your route before moving, use perpendicular turns to misdirect the chaser, lean on wall geometry to open safe windows, and save exposed coins for when the chaser is far away. Apply those principles on today's board and your stage times will fall consistently.

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