A Maze A Week

Here are the first lines I drew for Crowded Mouse

these are the first lines I drew for Crowded Mouse

This isn’t a maze, but it reminded me of a whistler that my brother Fred might recognize.

Happy Birthday, bro. Have you solved the maze I made for you last year? hahaha

It’s not a trick question; just something to do while following lines.

I’ve been quite busy at work recently, very unbalanced in my “work-life balance.”

Soness sent me this image recently, thinking of my mazes, and sending quite a clear message at the same time.

It doesn’t *exactly* solve the work-life balance equation, but it’s something like a maze and I use it as my acknowledgment that I did *not* create a maze to post today, Tuesday, now Wednesday in my timezone.

Work should be far less insane starting now, and for the foreseeable future, I plan to publish my own mazes every Tuesday, at least!

Not a maze with a start and end, but with a question of how few loops need to be cut to release all of them?

Help the ball in the lower right corner explore this circuit board until you get the message.

explore the circuits

How many triangles can you visit without visiting any triangle twice?

no dead ends; explore as you like!

How few triangles can you cross when traveling from dot to dot?

from dot to dot

This is my first attempt at a 3D maze-like thing.  It can’t be solved in 2D as below, but you can print it out, cut along the outer blue lines, and with a little thoughtful folding and glue, you can have a 3D path wrapped around a paper cube!

cut along outer blue lines, fold and glue into a cube!

Perfect for April Fools’ Day, this maze turns out to not be a maze! If it were, one would try to get from one arrow to the other, staying within the white paths…

Can you explain why it’s not possible?  Leave a comment!