I have created this number maze for you to solve, but I have added a twist:
If you pass through the secret passage then every number on the maze will reduce by one:(9 will become 8 and 8 will become 7 and so on... Any zeros will stay as zero, no negative numbers) You can only travel the passage in the direction of the arrows - from the bottom right corner.
You can only move the number of squares that is shown on square that you are on, (For example, the starting square: 5 will only allow you to travel to square 7 or 4 and so on... if you land on a zero then you cannot move any further)
You can only move vertically or horizontally, not diagonally.
You can visit a square as many times as required and also go back in the direction in which you came.
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ <----- Every number reduces by one when you travel this │
│ ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
├ ┼───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┐ │ S │
Start > 5 │ 2 │ 5 │ 5 │ 2 │ 7 │ 5 │ 5 │ 6 │ 3 │ 3 │ 0 │ │ E │
├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ C │
│ 5 │ 6 │ 4 │ 6 │ 4 │ 9 │ 2 │ 6 │ 2 │ 4 │ 5 │ 8 │ │ R │
├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ E │
│ 0 │ 4 │ 9 │ 8 │ 6 │ 7 │ 8 │ 4 │ 8 │ 3 │ 5 │ 7 │ │ T │
├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ │
│ 2 │ 8 │ 3 │ 0 │ 9 │ 2 │ 2 │ 3 │ 4 │ 4 │ 7 │End│ │ P │
├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ A │
│ 7 │ 5 │ 5 │ 5 │ 2 │ 6 │ 4 │ 6 │ 5 │ 6 │ 3 │ 2 │ │ S │
├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ S │
│ 4 │ 3 │ 4 │ 6 │ 2 │ 4 │ 5 │ 5 │ 2 │ 7 │ 3 │ 8 │ │ A │
├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ │ G │
│ 0 │ 1 │ 2 │ 9 │ 4 │ 4 │ 7 │ 2 │ 7 │ 1 │ 2 │ 5 │ │ E │
├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤───────┘ │
│ 4 │ 7 │ 6 │ 3 │ 6 │ 3 │ 2 │ 7 │ 7 │ 2 │ 4 │ ----------> │
└───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───────────┘
As I created this number maze, I have what I believe is the shortest route, or if I made a mistake when creating the maze you may find a shorter route.
What is the shortest number of steps you can find to get from the starting square to the exit square? (you have to land on the exit square and to use the secret passage, you have to land on the secret passage square.)
Give the route you took with directions? The number on square followed by the direction to get to the next square, for example (7R, 2D, 5U, 6L)