A Maze A Week

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

from dot to dot

The upper portion of this maze was drawn by hand; try to get from one big bulb to the other.  Paths cross over and under one another.

The lower portion of this maze is much easier to solve, and was much easier to draw.  Most of it I did with gimp, as I toyed around with selections and bucket fill.  Find a path from one big circle to the other.   Paths go under the upper maze.

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!

The center of this maze started as an experiment in a new way to draw a maze.  It seems to have worked out nicely!

Go from arrow to arrow to arrow, repeating as desired.

This piece started with a bunch of right angles drawn on the page, all in one of four different orientations, hence the word “aligned” in the title.   I then drew lots of curves to connect the right angles until they were all used up and a maze had appeared!

Try to get from one dark ball to the other.   There are two distinct paths that I’ve found.

Try to get from one ball to the other, then back by a different route

We were trying to think of good names for this.  Soness suggested along the lines of “angles” and I joked that we could call it “angels” in an apparent misspelling, like “from all angels.”

For this maze, go from one black triangle to the other, using the black lines as paths.

show the ball how to get out!

Watch this space for a maze each week!