Matrix Portal
Crack the code. Walk the maze.
Cipher puzzles you solve inside 3D mazes, right in your browser. Every answer opens a gate and is the key to the next one.
Free to start · nothing to download · works on your phone with one thumb · create a free account to keep your score
What's new
All releases →15 new chains and 10 new mazes every month. So far in October: 6 chains and 10 mazes.
- 🧭 Maze · Elite New The Sodium Alley Step into the wet dark of Lowmarket and slip past the searchlights. Three gates stand between you and the crew's last m… 3 gates · Play →
- 🧭 Maze · Elite New The Violet Rainfall Step into the violet rain and walk its drifting corridors. Four gates wait, and each one keeps a message for anyone pat… 4 gates · Play →
- 🔑 Chain · Elite New The Neon Aquarium A shuttered city aquarium whose glowing tanks now cool a hidden server farm, with one message left behind in each hall. 4 stages · Play →
- 🔑 Chain · Elite New The Amber Carousel A shuttered seaside amusement pier whose carousel hides a buried terminal and a trail of messages left by its last engi… 4 stages · Play →
Walk the mazes
All 18 mazes →First-person 3D mazes. Find the terminals, crack each cipher to open its gate, and collect the data fragments for a hidden bonus message.
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Seasonal · Free
The Hollow
A haunted maze by lantern light. Something taps on the walls in Morse, and ghosts walk the corridors. Collect…
4 gates
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Play free
New
The Drowned Archive
A flooded hall under the sea. Follow the directions its keepers left, collect the pearls, and mind the curren…
4 gates
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Play free
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Station Meridian
An empty space station, still running. Follow the last log through the ring, collect the data crystals, and t…
4 gates
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Play free
The Construct
Three gates, three ciphers. Each answer opens a gate and is the key to the next terminal.
3 gates
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The Glass Orchard
Step into a greenhouse where code grows like ivy, and follow the gardener's trail through three overgrown gat…
3 gates
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The Tidewire Station
Step into the drowned halls of Tidewire Station and follow the engineer's trail through four rooms. Something…
4 gates
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The Clockwork Cistern
Step into the flooded halls under the city and chase a message through three gates of brass and shadow. Bring…
3 gates
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The Night Market
A rain-soaked city block at night, all tube signs and puddles. Follow the word the stallholders pass along, c…
4 gates
Break the chains
All puzzles →- Read the intercept. Each stage is a scrambled message and a short story clue.
- Pick your tools. Shift it, swap it, count the letters. The workbench is built in.
- Unlock the next stage. Your answer is the key to the one after it.
- 🔑 Chain · Free The Construct Gates The chain built for the 3D maze: three gates, three ciphers, and each answer is the key to the next door. 3 stages · Start →
- 🔑 Chain · Free The Operator's Relay A message hops across five relays. Every answer is the key to the next hop — solve them in order. 5 stages · Start →
- 🔑 Chain · Free The Architect's Protocol Three layers of the Architect's old-world cryptography: a rotation lock, a keyed maze and an encoded core. 3 stages · Start →
New to ciphers? The five tutorials need no account and teach binary, Caesar shifts, sequences and logic grids. Elite adds 29 harder chains.
37 free cipher tools
All tools →Encoders, decoders and code-breaking helpers. No account, no limits. Know how one works? Try it against a real puzzle.
- Caesar CipherClassic shift cipher - encrypt/decrypt by shifting letters
- Substitution SolverAutomated substitution cipher breaking tool
- Frequency AnalysisAnalyze letter patterns to break substitution ciphers
- Vigenère CipherPolyalphabetic cipher using a repeating key
- Morse CodeText to/from Morse code with audio playback
- Binary ↔ TextConvert between binary and text representations
More to do
- 🛠️ WorkshopStack cipher steps into your own recipe and watch the text change at each one.
- 🏗️ Build a mazeElite members design their own maze, write the gates and pick the look.
- 🖼️ Member galleryMazes built by other players, ready to walk.
- 🏆 LeaderboardPoints are weighted by difficulty. Hints cost you, speed pays.
Top solvers
Full board →- 1@lysander69,782 pts
- 2@subscriber24,734 pts
- 3@music23,721 pts
- 4@unsubmemes7,851 pts
- 5@val1,588 pts
👑 Go Elite
- Every maze and every chain, including each month's new releases
- Your own maze builder, and a place in the gallery
- Unlimited workbench steps and saved recipes
- No ads
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