👾 How to create a Maze Chase activity

The Maze Chase template is one of Wordwall's most popular games. It combines the thrill of a classic arcade "pac-man" style game with educational quizzes, requiring students to navigate a maze to find correct answers while dodging enemies.

IN THIS ARTICLE:

• How is the Maze Chase activity played?
• How and what do you type into Edit content for Maze Chase?
• Where can I find some more examples?

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How the activity is played

When the game begins, a question is displayed at the bottom of the screen.

• The Movement: Users move their character through the maze using keyboard arrow keys (recommended) or by clicking/tapping the screen to change direction.

• The Goal: Navigate to the "zone" containing the correct answer.

• The Challenge: Avoid the "baddies" patrolling the maze! If a monster touches you, you lose a life.

• The Mechanics: If you enter an incorrect answer zone, that path is blocked off, and you must find another way. If you are correct, you advance to the next level.

• The Result: On the final screen, students can review their work and post their scores to the Leaderboard.

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Creating your activity

1. Click Create Activity and choose Maze Chase.

   
    

2. Type your question into the box at the top. You can upload an image to accompany the question if needed.

3. Provide a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 6 choices (labeled a through f).

   • Mark the Correct Answer: Check the box next to the right choice(s). You can have more than one correct answer per question!

4. Click Add a question or press Enter to create the next level.

5. Click Done to save your game.

   
    

6. Scroll down to Visual style to add a creative style to your activity, or tailor the difficulty in the Options panel below the activity:

   

• Timer

  • None: No time limit is enforced, allowing students to navigate the maze and think through their answers without clock pressure.
  • Count up: Displays an ascending stopwatch that tracks exactly how long it takes for a student to successfully clear all levels of the maze.
  • Count down: Sets a strict time limit (e.g., 5 minutes). The activity ends automatically if the countdown clock hits zero before the game is completed.
• Lives
  • Use the slider to determine how many "hits" or mistakes a student can make before encountering a Game Over screen. In the screenshot, this is set to 3 lives.
• Difficulty
  • Adjust the slider to set the intensity of your maze enemies. Turning up the difficulty increases the overall speed of the baddies and optimizes their tracking logic to make them smarter. In the screenshot, this is set to level 3.
• Random
  • Shuffle question order: When checked, your questions are shuffled into a completely random sequence every time the activity is launched, ensuring students face a unique level progression on repeat plays.
• End of game
  • Show answers: Gives students an opportunity to review the complete list of correct responses at the conclusion of their session to learn from any mistakes.
• Saving options
  • Apply to this activity: Saves these specific choices only for the activity you are currently editing.
  • More: Click this dropdown to find:
    • Set as default for template: Remembers these options as your standard configuration for every future game you build using the Maze chase template.
    • Revert to default: Clears temporary custom changes and returns the panel to your previously saved personal defaults.
    • Revert to author's setting: Restores the activity parameters back to the original layout configured by the initial community creator.

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Creating Maze Chase with AI

You don't need to be a prompt expert to use our AI. It is designed to be intuitive and accessible directly from the activity creator.

1. Click Create Activity and select Maze Chase.

   
    

2. Look for the ✨ Generate with AI button (magic wand icon) at the top right of the content editor.

   
    

3. Enter your content:

   • Topic: Type a subject like "Prime Numbers" or "Parts of Speech."

   • Text / Notes: Paste your summary notes or textbook explanations. The AI will analyse the text, isolate the core questions or target categories, and generate corresponding correct and incorrect answer choices to populate the maze.

   • File: Upload a PDF or Word doc. Wordwall AI will scan your material and instantly produce a series of multiple-choice arcade questions structured directly from your file.

4. Click Generate. The AI will populate the content rows with the question prompts and answer options. Review the terms, make any manual text adjustments or formatting tweaks if needed, and hit Done.

   

 

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Need Inspirations?

Some examples of Maze chase quiz activities have been created by our users and shared with the Wordwall resource community.