I'm sure that it has been posted before by Speedy but can anyone tell me how many free steps I can get for the maze? Excluding all treats, even free ones and considering my horse is high skilled. Also each treat is worth 3 steps?

then my calculations post is here.

I haven't worked out exactly where these free steps will take you (I can work it out if you want and post that later today), but by the looks of things it is possible to reach the mid-way point on the last maze before needing to use passes. This is including the sweets found along the path and the free moves at the start of each maze, and if we don't miss any regenerations (e.g. start the promo at around 9am when it is first released, and stay up late to complete mazes so we can move straight onto the next and make the most of regenerated paces).

I'm not sure about excluding all treats though - why would you like to exclude them? Each sweet found along the maze is worth 3 steps, but the sweets in the TC can range from certain numbers (I can't confirm what range this is at the moment).

I just need to figure out how many free steps I can take without spending any passes or using any treats, so that I can find out a perfect gift route for me, excluding gifts I don't care about. Then, I can add up the treats I find along my route and go a bit further and get a few other prizes if I can.
In short, I just want to know how many steps I can take, so that I can arrange each step on the map strategically so that I can get most of the prizes I want. Since how many sweets I can get depends on my route, I thought that I would add that up later.

Personally, I would stick to the recommended path and only stray if you really want to go for a gift that isn't part of the map. That way you'll still get far, but you'll just be moving that little bit more towards the specific gifts you want. In my calculations it tells you how many steps there are without including the treats in them at the start for each maze, then you would just add on the extra steps you take to reach the gifts you want. You just need to alter the numbers a little.

If you don't want to do that though, you would need to draw up a route that you personally want to go on and calculate it from there. You can mark the gifts that you specifically want to pick up, then draw out a route and count the steps taken. Then count the amount of treats along your path, multiply that number by three, and take away the resulting number from the original number of steps. Like so-

-> Total number of steps needed
-> Number of treats along path x 3 = Total number of free steps
-> Number of steps needed - Total number of free steps = Final number of steps needed

The promo should last for around 19 days at least, and we get 12 free moves (120 paces) per day - so we should have around 228 free steps without passes or treats along the path. We also get the 10 free moves (100 paces) at the start of each maze.

I hope that helped at least a little though, and you can send me a PM if you get too confused with anything~ I can help with calculations, just not drawing up maps themselves - otherwise I'm sure I'll be asked by a whole bunch of players and I'm not sure I'll have the time for that.

Treats *can* be found on all levels of the TC!

You still get treats even if you lose on the TCs.

Here are the gift placements for maze two. Also, unused treats *do* get carried over from one maze to the next.

...what Cancer will look like?

Here is the gift map for the third maze! Thankfully the SOA is on the recommended path~

also, this might seem a silly question, but It's been a long time since I played the maze. So, does one step mean one square?

I can come up with a better plan of attack now as to whether I just want the new draft, or go for the divine or whatever. I wouldn't mind a Themis Scale perk, and getting treats in TCs even if we fail the levels, but if we have an offer for a good Gemstone in a special offer before then I've got a better idea of whether I want to keep my passes or get the Gemstone. It does seem daunting to have to go through all 4 mazes this go around to get the divine.

Average number of sweets per TC level = 4 sweets

Maze 1 - Draft (Drum Horse)
If completing straight away...
-> 100 free paces = 10 free steps
-> 25 steps remaining / 4 sweets (if stopping at 1st level of TC) = 6.25 TCs (12-14 passes)
OR
-> 25 steps remaining / 8 sweets (if stopping at 2nd level of TC) = 3.125 TCs (6-8 passes)

If waiting for free steps...
-> Can be completed in 50 hours (2 days 2 hours)
-> No passes needed!

Maze 2 - Ow's Helios Ray
If completing straight away...
-> 100 free paces = 10 free steps
-> 69 steps remaining / 4 sweets (if stopping at 1st level of TC) = 17.25 TCs (34-36 passes)
OR
-> 69 steps remaining / 8 sweets (if stopping at 2nd level of TC) = 8.625 TCs (12-14 passes)

If waiting for free steps...
-> Can be completed in 138 hours (5 days 18 hours)
-> Would take 7 days 20 hours with maze 1
-> No passes needed!

Maze 3 - Titan's Challenge
If completing straight away...
-> 100 free paces = 10 free steps
-> 109 steps remaining / 4 sweets (if stopping at 1st level of TC) = 27.25 TCs (54-56 passes)
OR
-> 109 steps remaining / 8 sweets (if stopping at 2nd level of TC) = 13.625 TCs (26-28 passes)

If waiting for free steps...
-> Can be completed in 218 hours (9 days 4 hours)
-> Would take 16 days 0 hours with mazes 1 and 2
-> No passes needed!

Maze 4 - Divine (Sekhmet)
If completing straight away...
-> 100 free paces = 10 free steps
-> 143 steps remaining / 4 sweets (if stopping at 1st level of TC) = 35.75 TCs (70-72 passes)
OR
-> 143 steps remaining / 8 sweets (if stopping at 2nd level of TC) = 17.875 TCs (34-36 passes)

If waiting for free steps...
-> Can be completed in 286 hours (11 days 22 hours)
-> Would take 28 days 22 hours with mazes 1, 2 and 3
-> Need passes to finish

Pass calculations...
-> 100 free paces = 10 free steps
-> 143 steps remaining
-> Promo runs for 19 days (estimated)
-> 19 - 17 days (time taken to complete previous three mazes) = 2 days remaining
-> 12 free moves per day x 2 = 24 free steps
-> 143 - 24 = 119 steps remaining
-> 119 / 4 sweets (if stopping at 1st level of TC) = 29.75 TCs (58-60 passes)
OR
-> 119 / 8 sweets (if stopping at 2nd level of TC) = 14.875 TCs (28-30 passes)

list of all the prizes they got in the Mazes, and what spots? I think everyone's prizes will be the same things in the same spots.

Do you get each level 3 treats or is based on luck?

you can get between 3 and 5 treats. It's random. Sometimes you get the same number of treats on each level, sometimes you can get 3 on one level and 5 on the next.

The minimum number of treats you can get is 3 sweets, whilst the maximum is 5. You can get any amount on any level.

the gift locations are on the right-hand side of my mazes.

Yes. YES! I'm SO glad they are actually making it (supposedly) easier this time. Thank you so much for the information.

we have to do all the mazes in order or if only the first one is mandatory to do before the other mazes like in the last maze promo?

this time we have to do them in order.