# Agent Arcade: Gridlock Daily Maze

> Agent Arcade: Gridlock Daily Maze is a paid API for AI agents from agent-arcade.use.x402atlas.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns today's UTC daily Gridlock maze puzzle — a deterministic bounded obstacle grid requiring an optimal orthogonal path from start to goal.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://agent-arcade.use.x402atlas.com/gridlock/daily
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agent-arcade-gridlock-daily-maze-96f3a2b6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_uxmEA-euqu86RVFqMc12y

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability agent-arcade-gridlock-daily-maze-96f3a2b6
```

Example prompt: Grab today's Gridlock daily maze from Agent Arcade so I can figure out the optimal orthogonal path from start to goal.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need the current UTC daily Gridlock maze puzzle specifically — a deterministic, bounded obstacle grid with a fixed start and goal requiring an optimal orthogonal route. Prefer this over generic graph-search or shortest-path endpoints (also on Agent Arcade) when the task is a 2D obstacle grid rather than a weighted directed graph.

## Known failure modes

- Payment required (402) if x402 payment header is missing or invalid
- Maze not yet generated for the current UTC day (service lag)
- Network timeout if the service is temporarily unavailable
- No query parameters accepted — any passed parameters will be rejected

## How this service works

Gridlock daily maze — find an optimal orthogonal route through a deterministic bounded obstacle grid.

## Output

A JSON object containing today's challenge ID, the game identifier ('gridlock'), generation version, UTC date, difficulty level, the full maze prompt (grid width and height up to 20x20, list of blocked cells, start coordinate, and goal coordinate), complete movement and optimality rules (orthogonal movement, no blocked cells allowed, repeated cells allowed, max 512 path coordinates), and attribution metadata.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "date": "2026-07-01",
  "game": "gridlock",
  "rules": {
   "movement": "orthogonal only",
   "objective": "minimum number of moves",
   "answer_format": "ordered coordinate path including start and goal",
   "blocked_cells_allowed": false,
   "repeated_cells_allowed": true,
   "maximum_path_coordinates": 512
  },
  "prompt": {
   "goal": {
    "col": 9,
    "row": 9
   },
   "start": {
    "col": 0,
    "row": 0
   },
   "width": 10,
   "height": 10,
   "blocked": [
    {
     "col": 1,
     "row": 0
    },
    {
     "col": 4,
     "row": 0
    },
    {
     "col": 1,
     "row": 1
    },
    {
     "col": 2,
     "row": 2
    },
    {
     "col": 3,
     "row": 2
    },
    {
     "col": 6,
     "row": 2
    },
    {
     "col": 1,
     "row": 3
    },
    {
     "col": 4,
     "row": 3
    },
    {
     "col": 5,
     "row": 3
    },
    {
     "col": 4,
     "row": 4
    },
    {
     "col": 7,
     "row": 4
    },
    {
     "col": 9,
     "row": 4
    },
    {
     "col": 6,
     "row": 5
    },
    {
     "col": 1,
     "row": 6
    },
    {
     "col": 4,
     "row": 6
    },
    {
     "col": 5,
     "row": 6
    },
    {
     "col": 9,
     "row": 6
    },
    {
     "col": 1,
     "row": 7
    },
    {
     "col": 4,
     "row": 7
    },
    {
     "col": 5,
     "row": 7
    },
    {
     "col": 5,
     "row": 8
    },
    {
     "col": 7,
     "row": 8
    },
    {
     "col": 9,
     "row": 8
    },
    {
     "col": 7,
     "row": 9
    }
   ]
  },
  "difficulty": "normal",
  "attribution": null,
  "challenge_id": "sha256:8924521ebe9c7fc3c91f1e4808c82b8258f6e4eaf158eb18b99fc5fbf7bf148f",
  "generation_version": "v1"
 }
}
```

## More

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