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Traditional white gers on a vast green steppe beside a winding river

Tap the rings to align the toono

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LearnMaze — coming soon

Mongolian heritage,
one puzzle at a time.

MindMaze is a cultural anchor promoting Mongolian cultural heritage and cognitive exercises with traditional puzzle games.

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01 — About us

We revive traditional puzzles to build critical minds.

Every puzzle starts with a single move. Slide the tiles and put the steppe back together — the same patience and logic our ancestors trained with wood and bone.

Tap a tile next to the gap

02 — Traditional puzzles

Piece by
piece.

Traditional puzzles train focus and critical thinking — one piece at a time.

Six-piece wooden puzzle

Games our
ancestors played.

Carved from wood and bone, Mongolian puzzles lock, interlock and untangle — tests of logic, patience and dexterity.

Interlocking

Six-piece puzzle

Six notched wooden sticks lock into a single star — take it apart, then find the way back.

Interlocking

The turtle puzzle

A carved turtle that comes apart piece by piece and goes back together.

Lock

Puzzle lock

A lock with a secret — find the hidden way to open it.

Disentangling

Link the rings

Join the rings — or separate them — while following the rules.

Disentangling

Nine holes

A disentangling game named for its nine holes — free the loop without cutting anything.

Disentangling

Hobble knot

A disentangling game named after the hobble tied on a horse's legs.

03 — Why MindMaze

Cultural heritage, modern learning.

01

Why?

Screens shrink attention spans. Puzzles grow them back.

  • Focus over scrolling
  • Learn at your own pace
  • Made for digital natives
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MindMaze was established to share and promote the educational values of Mongolian Traditional Puzzles. MindMaze team aims to mitigate the short attention span caused by the heavy usage of digital platforms among children with the puzzles and encourage asynchronous learning, scalable lessons, and support urban youth who are already digitally active.

02

Importance

Our heritage, rebuilt as a tool for modern learning.

  • Reviving traditional games
  • Critical thinking
  • Culture × education
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Founded with the mission to revive traditional Mongolian games while fostering critical thinking, MindMaze combines cultural heritage with modern educational principles and redefines how cultural practices can serve as tools for modern learning.

04 — Programs

How we teach.

  1. School workshops

    Hands-on puzzle lessons with our partner schools. Students hear the story behind each puzzle, then solve it with their own hands.

    • 12 partner schools
    • 5 aimags
    • Run by trained school leads

  2. LearnMaze

    Our upcoming digital platform: self-paced puzzle lessons that fit into a screen-heavy day instead of competing with it.

    • Learn at your own pace
    • Scalable lessons
    • Coming soon

  3. University chapters

    Student-led chapters bring Mongolian puzzles to campuses abroad, starting with the University of Washington.

    • UW chapter
    • Student leaders
    • Mongolian diaspora

  4. Puzzle events

    Open sessions and friendly competitions where families and friends solve traditional puzzles together.

    • Open sessions
    • Competitions
    • All ages

05 — Implementation

provinces
5
schools
12
youth
5000+
Bayan-ÖlgiiUvsKhövsgölBulganSelengeKhovdZavkhanArkhangaiOrkhonDarkhan-UulUlaanbaatarKhentiiDornodGovi-AltaiBayankhongorÖvörkhangaiTövGovisümberSükhbaatarÖmnögoviDundgoviDornogovi
Mongolia's 21 aimags and the capital

06 — Meet our team

The people behind the maze.

AU

Anujin Ulziidelger

Founder & President

EG

Erkhem Ganzorig

Chief Technology Officer

NO

Nomu-Luun Olonbayar

Director of Management

GA

Goomaral Amarbayar

Editor in Chief

Chapter & school leads

  • Dulguun UuganbaatarUW Chapter Leader
  • Ichinbat ErkhembayarSchool administrator
  • Munkhdalai BatbayarSchool administrator
  • Bujinlkham DelgersaikhanSchool administrator