Magic Maze: Maximum Security

About this expansion

Magic Maze: Maximum Security is a modular expansion for 1–8 players, with games lasting about 24 minutes. Released in 2017, it adds new helpers and challenges that let you customize the difficulty of your Magic Maze experience.

The mall’s repeated robberies have prompted Management to install new security systems. The expansion brings the mall guards to life while introducing additional ways to support the heroes, complicate their mission, and create a more intense, puzzling game.

Helper modules make movement, exploration, and communication more flexible. Ventilation shafts let the dwarf open fast routes, while the barbarian can create wall breaches. The mage can cast two spells from a selection of ten, and the elf can use telekinesis to move Mall tiles.

• Anti-stress tokens: allow a discussion, an Action tile swap, or a sand timer flip at any time.
• Maps and auto-explore spaces: speed up mall exploration.
• Control room: send guards to Vortex spaces.

For a greater challenge, security modules add guards, reinforcement guards, a guard room, and a Beholder. Heroes must avoid sharing spaces or passing through Mall tiles occupied by certain threats, while specific spaces control how some pieces move.

Additional obstacles include sensors that restrict where heroes can stand and a locked escape requiring a hero to occupy a Code space before the dwarf can escape. Each module includes a tutorial, and the expansion guides players step by step as they learn the new rules. With its mix of supportive tools and escalating hazards, Magic Maze: Maximum Security offers many ways to reshape the cooperative mall heist.