Grid Distance ↗
Count the shortest horizontal-and-vertical route between two cells.
Track your facing direction through a sequence of turns.
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Which way are you facing? Start South. Turn right, left.
the answer is South. Track one quarter-turn at a time.
Choose a stable reference point before imagining a turn, reflection or route. Moving one step at a time often helps more than trying to picture the whole transformation at once.
This is a recreational spatial activity. Results describe performance on this particular task, with this device and these rules. They are not a clinical assessment, IQ score or promise of improvements in daily life. Your best result and recent sessions stay in this browser; no account is required.
Yes. You can play the full activity without a payment, download or account.
Use Tab to focus buttons and Enter or Space to activate them. Answer fields accept normal typing. The maze also supports arrow keys. Timed tests will differ between touch, mouse and keyboard input.
Practice, a different generated puzzle, distractions and input timing all affect results. Compare several sessions rather than drawing a conclusion from one attempt.