Limiting amount of deaths for time has a downside too since it's very often
'stuck', the maze. And your options are either to guess and die or let someone
else win, which is annoying. And, one can end up in that situation more than
once per few minutes.
I think those limits that were suggested are not too harsh... maze is a lot
easier nowdays than it was some years ago. Its not 'stuck' that much anymore