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 multiple steps ahead while managing an active threat. You control a character in a sliding maze. Your goal is to collect every coin on the board before the chaser catches you. As the three stages progress, the chaser accelerates, the maze expands, and the coin layouts become more complex. This guide explains how the chaser behaves, how to plan efficient routes, and how to use the maze geometry itself as a defensive tool.

Coin Maze places you and a chaser on a grid-based maze. The entire maze slides when you move: swiping left moves your character left and shifts every moveable element in that direction. You must collect every coin while maintaining distance from the chaser. Each Daily Coin Maze session contains three stages of increasing difficulty. Your final score is based on completion time across all three stages.

The chaser follows a pursuit algorithm: it moves toward your current position using the shortest available open path. Understanding this behavior transforms it from an unpredictable threat into a predictable system you can exploit. If the chaser is approaching you horizontally, a vertical move forces it to recalculate its entire path, temporarily misdirecting it. Sudden perpendicular direction changes consistently buy more time than continuing in the same direction.

Before making your first move in each stage, spend two to three seconds mapping the full coin layout. Identify the coin farthest from your starting position and plan a route that passes through the maximum number of other coins on the way. This S-curve approach minimizes total moves and, crucially, minimizes the time you spend with the chaser at close range. Every extra move is additional exposure to the chaser's pursuit.

In later stages, wall clusters become your most valuable resource. Groups of walls that divide the maze into quadrants create temporary safe zones by forcing the chaser to travel a longer path to reach you. Use those safety windows aggressively to grab multiple coins in rapid succession. Once the chaser breaks through the wall barrier into your quadrant, shift immediately to evasion mode. Trying to collect coins while the chaser is in your quadrant is the most common cause of failure in stages two and three.

Stage three introduces a faster chaser and a more complex maze layout with coins deliberately placed in exposed positions. The key adaptation here is to accept that you will not collect coins in the cleanest possible order. Prioritize coins in the safest accessible quadrant first, then push toward exposed coins only when the chaser is in a maximally distant position. Patience outperforms speed in stage three. Rushing exposed coins with the chaser nearby ends more runs than any other mistake.

Daily attributes Coin Maze performance to Logical Reasoning (40%), Working Memory (30%), Processing Speed (20%), and Pattern Recognition (10%). The Working Memory component is particularly notable: you must simultaneously track your position, the chaser's position, remaining coin locations, and safe movement corridors. This multi-track spatial awareness is closely linked to real-world executive function skills, which have been studied extensively in cognitive psychology research on complex task management.

Coin Maze rewards players who think one step ahead of the threat rather than reacting to it. Plan your route before moving, exploit perpendicular direction changes to misdirect the chaser, use wall geometry to create safe windows, and reserve exposed coin collection for moments when the chaser is maximally distant. Apply these principles and your stage completion times will improve consistently.