Magic Maze: Maximum Security

Increase the challenge—or give your adventurers a little extra help—with Magic Maze: Maximum Security, a modular expansion for the real-time cooperative board game Magic Maze.

After repeatedly watching the same group of adventurers rob the same four shops, the management of the Magic Maze has finally decided to fight back. New security systems and mall guards have been introduced to make future heists considerably more difficult.

Maximum Security adds a collection of modular rules and gameplay elements that can be mixed into the base game to customize your experience. Some modules help the players, while others introduce new obstacles and challenges. Each is introduced through its own tutorial, allowing your group to learn the new rules gradually before combining them into full games.

Features

• Expansion for the Magic Maze board game

• Cooperative gameplay

• Real-time simultaneous play

• No traditional player turns

• Adds Mall Guards

• Introduces multiple modular gameplay options

• Includes both Helper and Challenge modules

• Adjust the difficulty of your games

• Step-by-step tutorials introduce new rules

• Designed to integrate with the base game

• Adds greater variety and replayability

• Maintains Magic Maze's communication and coordination challenges

Maximum Security

The adventurers have gotten away with their mall heists for long enough.

With the Magic Maze's management finally responding to the repeated robberies, the shopping complex now features additional security designed to interfere with your team's plans.

The expansion brings the Mall Guards to life while adding several other systems that can dramatically change how your group approaches each scenario.

Modular Expansion

Rather than adding one large rules system that must be used in every game, Maximum Security is built around modules.

Choose which elements you want to incorporate depending on the experience your group is looking for.

Modules can change:

• Difficulty

• Movement

• Security

• Player options

• Team coordination

• Scenario objectives

• Available assistance

This modular approach allows you to vary your games without permanently increasing the complexity of the base system.

Helpers & Challenges

The modules are divided into two broad categories.

Helpers

Helper modules provide the adventurers with additional assistance.

These can be useful when learning new scenarios, playing with less experienced groups, or balancing some of the expansion's more demanding challenges.

Challenges

Challenge modules make escaping the Magic Maze considerably more difficult.

Add these when your group has become comfortable with the base game and wants new obstacles capable of disrupting familiar strategies.

By combining Helpers and Challenges, groups can fine-tune the experience around their preferred difficulty.

Learn Each Module Step by Step

You don't need to introduce every new rule at once.

Each module includes a tutorial designed to teach its mechanics before you incorporate it into your regular games.

This step-by-step approach allows your group to understand each addition individually before experimenting with combinations of multiple modules.

Real-Time Cooperative Gameplay

Maximum Security expands the systems that make the original Magic Maze unusual among cooperative games.

Players continue to act simultaneously in real time rather than waiting for individual turns.

The game features:

• Grid movement

• Tile placement

• Variable player powers

• Modular boards

• Real-time decision-making

• Cooperative objectives

Because different players control different actions, success depends on everyone understanding what needs to happen and coordinating without allowing one player to simply control the entire group.

No Traditional Alpha Player

Many cooperative games can develop an "alpha player" problem where one experienced participant tells everyone else exactly what to do.

Magic Maze's unusual action system and communication restrictions are designed to reduce this effect.

Each player has responsibilities that other players cannot simply take over, making cooperation essential.

Why Add Maximum Security?

More Variety

Modules change the way scenarios play and provide additional possibilities beyond the base game.

Adjustable Difficulty

Use Helpers to make things easier or Challenges to increase the pressure.

Mall Guards

Bring the Magic Maze's security personnel directly into the action.

Tutorial System

Learn each new module individually before combining it with the rest of the expansion.

More Replayability

Mix different modules together to create new combinations and challenges for experienced groups.

Product Information

• Game: Magic Maze

• Expansion: Maximum Security

• Genre: Cooperative / Real-Time Board Game

• Gameplay: Simultaneous

• Mechanisms: Grid Movement / Tile Placement / Variable Player Powers / Modular Board

• Product Type: Board Game Expansion

• Condition: New

A copy of the Magic Maze base game is required to use this expansion.