The game board forms a maze built of both fixed and moving pieces.

The players rearrange the maze to their advantage by moving a row of pieces in turn.

[1] The game was designed by the German psychologist Max Kobbert and published by Ravensburger under the name "Das verrückte Labyrinth", which is a pun on the German words "verrücken" (displace) and "verrückt" (crazy), roughly translatable in English as "labyrinthal disorder".

In English-speaking countries, the name was initially translated as "THE aMAZEing LABYRINTH", but the pun was dropped in subsequent versions.

In February 2008, videogame website DS-x2.com reported that dtp entertainment was planning a Nintendo DS version of the board game.