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Planning & Puzzles: Teach AI to Think Ahead

Discover how AI solves mazes, plans steps, and finds the smartest paths. Build your own puzzle solver and learn to think like a computer!

20 modules·Difficulty: ★★★☆☆· 5 Free
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Modules

  • 1
    Free8 min
    Meet the Maze Explorer
    Watch a simple robot try to escape a tiny maze and learn what planning means 🤖
  • 2
    Free10 min
    Left or Right? Making Choices
    Discover how AI picks a direction at every fork in the road
  • 3
    Free9 min
    Dead Ends and Backtracking
    Learn what happens when the robot hits a wall and must turn around
  • 4
    Free11 min
    Breadth-First Search: Try Everything at Once
    See how AI explores all nearby paths before going deep
  • 5
    Free10 min
    Depth-First Search: Dive Deep Fast
    Understand how AI rushes down one path until it finds the exit or a wall
  • 6
    Paid12 min
    Counting Steps: How Far Did We Go?
    Measure every move and discover which path is shortest
  • 7
    Paid11 min
    Goal Heuristics: Smell the Exit
    Teach AI to guess which direction is closer to the goal
  • 8
    Paid10 min
    A-Star Search: The Smart Shortcut
    Combine step-counting and guessing to find the fastest route
  • 9
    Paid9 min
    Obstacles Everywhere: Dynamic Mazes
    Watch AI adapt when walls appear or disappear while solving
  • 10
    Paid11 min
    Memory Matters: Remembering Where We've Been
    Learn why AI must track visited spots to avoid going in circles
  • 11
    Paid12 min
    Building Your First Puzzle Grid
    Design a small maze on paper and predict the solution path
  • 12
    Paid10 min
    Testing AI on Your Design
    Run a simple solver on your maze and see if it matches your plan
  • 13
    Paid11 min
    Multiple Exits: Which One Is Best?
    Explore puzzles with two doors and let AI pick the closer escape
  • 14
    Paid9 min
    Adding Keys and Locked Doors
    Make the puzzle harder by requiring AI to collect items first
  • 15
    Paid12 min
    Loops and Traps: When AI Gets Confused
    Identify why circular paths can trick bad search algorithms
  • 16
    Paid11 min
    Step Limits: Solve It Before Time Runs Out
    Challenge AI to find the exit in fewer than twenty moves
  • 17
    Paid10 min
    Compare All Three Search Styles
    Run breadth-first, depth-first, and A-star on the same maze side by side
  • 18
    Paid12 min
    Designing a Puzzle Solver Tool
    Sketch a flowchart showing how your own AI solver would work
  • 19
    Paid11 min
    Create Your Challenge Puzzle
    Build a tricky maze using all the tricks you learned and share it
  • 20
    Final exam15 min
    Final Challenge: Master of Planning & Puzzles
    Test everything you learned about search, paths, and puzzle-solving AI