Ball Maze · 1976
Dragon Trap
Tilt the chrome bearing past the trap holes
Remember guiding one tiny steel ball around a plastic maze without dropping it in the hole? Dragon Trap brings that wonderfully frustrating idea back to your phone.
Twenty-six rock-cut chambers, three bearings, one dragon's lair. Tilt your handset like the original moulded plastic case, collect the gems and dodge the pit traps. Full tilt controls with a drag fallback, chunky retro sound and a fanfare for every new chamber.
About Dragon Trap
Twenty-six rock-cut chambers sit between you and the dragon's lair, and you get three bearings to see them all. Gems are scattered off the safe line, so every chamber asks whether you fancy the detour. Each new chamber opens with its own little fanfare.
How to play Dragon Trap
Roll the chrome bearing through all 26 rock-cut chambers, collect the gems and reach the dragon's lair without dropping into a trap hole.
Controls
- · Tilt your phone to roll the bearing (allow motion access when asked).
- · On desktop, or if tilt is blocked, drag anywhere on the screen to tilt the maze.
- · Tap Re-level to recentre the tilt at your current hand position.
Rules & scoring
- · Collect every gem in a chamber for the bonus, then reach the exit to advance.
- · Falling in a hole costs one bearing — three bearings and the run is over.
- · Your time per chamber is tracked, so clean fast runs score best.
Tips
- · Feather the tilt — small angles keep the bearing controllable.
- · Learn the hole positions on a chamber before rushing the exit.
Retro inspiration
It takes after the tilt-and-pray ball mazes that lived in coat pockets in the mid-seventies — moulded plastic, a chrome bearing and a hole waiting under every wrong move.
An original game made by The Pocket Arcade Club. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to any historic toy manufacturer.
What you get
- · Installs to your home screen — no app store needed
- · Plays offline once installed
- · Original chiptune music and mechanical sound effects
- · Tilt and touch controls, one hand friendly
- · Zero adverts, zero tracking, zero in-app nonsense
- · Free updates and new chambers forever
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Dragon Trap high scores
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