Daily maze ritual
Beeline is a daily hex-grid puzzle. Every player on a given date gets the same seeded board, and your job is to trace one hidden route by stepping from 1 to 50, one numbered cell at a time, before your battery runs out. This guide walks through everything you need to clear your first run with confidence.
Start on the hex marked 1 and reach the hex marked 50 by moving through the numbers in order, where each number sits on a hex next to the previous one. If you can find the next number among the cells touching your current cell, you can keep going. When you reach 50, you have cleared the daily board.
The board is a grid of six-sided cells, like a honeycomb. Each cell can touch up to six neighbours. Because the grid is hexagonal rather than square, movement feels more open than a normal maze, and the route can weave in directions a square grid would not allow.
At the start of a run, you only see a small lit area around cell 1. The rest of the board is hidden under fog-of-war. As you move, the fog lifts around your new position, revealing more numbers and more of the comb. The puzzle is as much about uncovering the board safely as it is about reading the numbers you can already see.
A wrong tap is a soft failure, not an instant game over. You learn from it, lose a little position or battery, and keep reading the board. Beeline is designed to teach you the route, not to punish a single misstep.
Only the area within your field of view is clearly visible. Think of it as a torch carried through a dark hive: you see what is near, and the rest waits in shadow. Your field of view follows you as you move, so planning a step ahead matters more than trying to see the whole answer at once.
This is the heart of Beeline's tension. You will often have to choose between a confident move toward a number you can already see and a more exploratory move that reveals new ground but spends battery and time. Reading the game mechanics guide will help you understand exactly how fog and battery interact.
Every valid move spends a little battery. Battery is your exploration budget for the whole run, so wandering far off the likely route can leave you short before you reach 50. The pressure is intentional but gentle: in the default Normal mode the battery is generous enough that careful play almost always finishes, while reckless detours can cost you the run.
You can top up battery during a run by collecting certain treasure chests. That is why detours can be worth the risk, but only when the reward outweighs the charge you spend reaching them.
Scattered across the board are optional chests. They can grant extra battery, reveal part of the route, extend your torch, briefly freeze the timer, or give other small advantages. Chests are never required to finish, but a well-timed detour can stabilise a run that is running low on charge or visibility.
Some boards also hide seeded subhive tunnels that lead to deeper rewards such as relics and passive bonuses. Treat these as tempting side-quests, not homework. The strategy guide covers when a detour pays off and when it does not.
When you step onto cell 50, the run ends and a summary appears. Beeline tracks the time you took, the battery you had left, the chests you collected, and any reveals you used. Your score combines these into a single result, and the public leaderboard ranks eligible clears by fastest time first, then battery remaining, then score.
A live timer runs in the heads-up display while you play, so you can balance speed against caution. Certain chest rewards can briefly pause the timer, giving you a moment to plan without the clock counting against you.
If you run out of battery or get stuck, the run ends in a fail summary rather than a harsh penalty. You still bank your daily participation for the streak, you can review what happened in the recap, and you can try again. Failing is part of learning a board, and Beeline keeps the tone calm rather than punishing.
That is everything you need for your first run. Open today's board, find cell 1, and start counting upward. You will get the rhythm within a minute. When you want to go deeper, read the mechanics and strategy guides, or explore the different difficulty modes.