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The active mazes

Imagine an active maze where the wall change with every step that you make. Everytime you think you see a way to the target, a wall just blocks you path or the target moves away. Still, there is only one simple rule...

Rule: When you move forward, the square at your right-back swaps with the square on your left-front, this is known as the diagonals swap rule.

"Diagonals swap"

Aim Your aim is to drag the round dot onto the red square. Controls Use the Puzzles drop-list to select a puzzle. Use Restart (Actions) or hit space to reset the puzzle. Use Auto-generate to generate a new random puzzle.(*) Movement Use the mouse to drag, or use the cursor keys.

(*) Warning, some older JVMs may not display the 'generating' pop-up correctly. Note also, auto-generate runs for up to 5 seconds to try and generate a new puzzle. For the larger grids, on a slow PC, this may not be long enough to find a decent puzzle, resulting in a trivial challenge. If this troubles you, please find a faster PC!

Although designed by Oskar, much of this puzzle is Andrea's. The Active maze puzzle was inspired by Andrea's Maze of Life and Colour-wriggle mazes. Also, Oskar reused much of Andrea's Java source code, which explains the similar look and feel with some of Andrea's other projects.