A Maze A Week

Feeling thirsty on our way to the festival, but the beer is way over there!

Continuing our series from last week: the fifth maze!

dizzy?

From dot to dot, easy as pie.

From dot to dot, easy if you remember the original path.

From dot to dot, wait I thought it would be easy.

From dot to dot?

Tune in next week for an insane version!

When I exported the ellipses and ribbons maze, I had the what background layer invisible, but didn’t notice for some reason. Here’s the maze as originally designed:

from dot to dot

Though the ribbons and parallel paths may look like they pass over and under each other, this maze is designed to be purely flat.

There’s a very simple way to solve it, and a more complex way to solve it.  Either way, the path does not cross any dark lines.

travel from dot to dot

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solved

In February, I titled the image “over there” as in where to go when solving the maze, but it looks so dense as I post it now that I prefer the name Crowded Mouse.

follow paths from this arrow to that arrow

Travel along white paths from one dot to the other.

from dot to dot

from dot to dot

Buy a poster of this maze on Zazzle.com!

Follow black lines from top left to bottom right or the other way around!

TL:BR

Travel from any of the dotted areas to any of the others.

If you’re feeling chipper, visit each of the dotted areas in sequential order.

follow paths between the dotted areas (in order)

Following white lines, find your way from one side to the other.

follow white lines from one side to the other

Travel on white paths from one colored dot to another.

from one colored dot to the other

This maze features perhaps three distinct puzzles, each of which start at a black disc and end at the other.

Easy: use teleportation stations (jump to any other identical symbol) using only black noodles.

Not as easy: use red or blue noodles as well, but not both.

Harder: use teleportation stations in all three colors of noodles.

use teleportation stations to get from one black disc to the other

This maze is for my brother Fred.

“Piled Higher and Deeper” logo by Jorge Cham
www.phdcomics.com

help the student achieve a PhD!

Another of the mixed path variety, this maze may be a bit more difficult than the previous one.  Go from one heart to the other.  Paths cross under other paths when surrounded by dark areas.

go from heart to heart, crossing under paths when in darkened zones

Though an extension of the hexagon theme, this is a normal maze.   Get from one ball to the other.

follow white paths from one ball to the other

This maze is for Lin.  🙂

Start and end at the arrows near the bottom middle, using the flower at the top to change between black and white paths.

from arrow to arrow, using the flower to transition

After a chat with my friend Patrick, I decided to use gimp to make a maze.  I didn’t really know what to expect, but I hoped it would allow me to easily make something that looked like a drawing done with CAD.  I don’t think it did that, but it pretty handily duplicated a complicated pattern into a 2 x 2 quadruple pattern which I tweaked to make a relatively difficult maze.

Go from one dot to two dots, or the other way around, as you see fit.

from dots to dot or dot to dots