Questions tagged [mazes]
A tour puzzle in the form of a complex branching passage through which the solver must find a route.
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Deusovi Honeypot
Looks like the community has spoken.
With a heavy heart (as if), I have trapped @Deusovi behind a never repeating, fractally recursive, infinite, unsolvable labyrinth. To keep him busy, I added a ...
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A Bomber Maze™™™
To help you solve the maze, you are given 3 bombs. A bomb can be used to destroy one wall in the maze.
Your goal is to get from the start to the finish, with the help of your bombs. There is only one ...
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The Folding Maze
Four years ago, I drew a really nice maze. I have recreated it with the wonders of MS Paint for all of you to enjoy.
Just begin at the green START, exit by the red arrow, and don't pass through black ...
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Alice and the Fractal Hedge Maze
This is an entry to the 12th fortnightly challenge.
Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.
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Escape across the floorboards
A mad lexophile sits alone in his apartment obsessively rearranging his Scrabble tiles and writing words on every available surface, even filling each floorboard with a word. The Scrabble tiles have ...
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The Ludicrous Loop: over a thousand cells of circular logic!
Flavourtext is for flavour only.
Ladies and Gentlemen, are you feeling ludicrous today? A little loopy, perhaps? Then come one, come all, for I have just the thing for you.
Lampreys and Jellyfish, ...
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A puzzling image maze!
I was inspired by Rainbow Road Rabbit Hole to make a two-dimensional image maze where each image points to its neighboring rooms. Start here:
Clarifications and corrections:
Reassembly
"Either... ...
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Labyrinth Puzzle
Part of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #35: Restricted Title 1
Surprised no one went for this low hanging fruit yet
Get from MAZE to DONE
When you're DONE with the MAZE, apply the following the ...
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A maze puzzle for the day
Here's a little maze puzzle I originally built a couple of years ago, that seems apropos to reprise now:
Can you make it from the A in the top left of this grid to the Z in the bottom right, always ...
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Edward's Maze I
Edward's "revenge" on Bob the mute house servant
Edward had enough! This was it! During the yearly sorcerer meet in a
hidden cellar in Léon, Edward discovered a red stain on his precious robe.
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A-maze-ing Dice
This is an entry to the 12th fortnightly challenge
"So you have escaped my labyrinth of words, and now you think you are free, do you? Well, I have news for you: Think again! Ha Ha Ha Ha"
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The Persistence Of Memory
You find yourself on the floor, slowly waking up and unable to remember how you got here. As you slowly come to your senses, you realize that another weird guy has trapped you in another unfamiliar ...
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A Page of Puzzling
I found this puzzle page from a newspaper and found it absolutely confounding. The sudoku had question marks and other things all over it, the logic puzzle made no sense, the cryptic crossword was ...
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Magic Maze Puzzle
Inspired by the board game, Magic Maze
Set-up:
Cut out each 4x4 tile, and the four small tokens (orange, yellow, green and purple), from the provided image below. Place tile 1 on a flat surface with ...
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Introducing Gladys, an intrepid globetrotter
Gladys has always led an active life full of adventure. As a retiree, she has a lot of free time on her hands and loves to spend it on her two favourite pastimes – travelling and crossword ...
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A blue, white and red maze
First, let's give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar: this maze comes from the mind of Dave Phillips, a brilliant maze designer 1.
So, for the maze. It is a fairly easy one:
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A torus maze™™™™™
Since this is a torus maze, the left side of the maze connects to the right side and the top of the maze connects to the bottom. Corresponding openings in the walls of the maze have been labeled for ...
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Read. Learn. Live. Escape
You wake lying face down on a hard stone floor. Your head hurts. As your eyes find focus, you see a haiku scratched into the ground beside you:
A wrong step brings death!
But, a wrong guess brings ...
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The maze one should not enter
Once upon a time, somewhere in Italy, two archaeologists unearthed a buried passage.
As they explore the passage they reach the doorway which is clearly the entrance of a wide structure behind. They ...
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A broken mirror
Oh no, I broke a mirror! That means bad luck or something, doesn't it? Can you help me fix it?
I made an image of my mirror below. You have to move some pieces so that a laser pointed in the ...
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They've Noticed Your Puzzling Prowess
They came to your home in the early hours and whisked you away.
The four by four's windows were completely blacked out but the agents seemed amicable enough, albeit fairly taciturn.
After a while you ...
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Labyrinth of stones
Help Princess PurpleSprite navigate through the labyrinth to retrieve the mystical jewel. She can slide the lettered stones around as needed, but she must not leave any non-words, or the labyrinth ...
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A-maze-ing Wordsearch
This is an entry to the 12th fortnightly challenge
You and your party realize that you possibly shouldn't have crossed the mad wizard at the black tower when all your vision goes pink and pale. When ...
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The No-Straight Maze
Consider the following maze.
You can walk on the black lines, and your aim is to go from the green at the maze's bottom to the red on the left side. However, each time you reach an intersection of ...
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The Knight and the Maze 2
I've decided to make another knight and maze puzzle. I felt like I rushed the last one here because I thought of the idea right before the end of maze fortnight and wanted to submit something in time. ...
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Transport Networks - An Introduction
This is a new type of puzzle and I don't know yet, whether or not they are fun to solve. So what better to do with them, than throw them at the best puzzlers out there and see what happens? Feedback ...
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Curiouser and Curiouser
CHAPTER ONE
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: when she was overcome with the strangest sense of deja vu, and saw a 7x3 grid of ...
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The world's smallest square maze?
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #14: Think inside the (very small) box!.
The smallest maze possible in a grid of squares would occupy a 2x2 grid (a 1x1 cell isn't a maze - it's a ...
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Maze Solving Robot
Archie the archeologist has discovered an Egyptian temple, and plans to send in a robot to explore it. He uncovered the ancient engineers' papyruses which explain almost everything about the temple's ...
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A Warped Chess Maze
A chess maze is a kind of chess puzzle where:
Only one side moves (and that side usually only has one piece).
That side must capture a piece with every move.
The goal is to capture all of ...
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Cryptic Clue Maze
The maze
The paths
Malfunctioning oven trade fixed kitchen (9)
Damages small vehicles (5)
Coastal airport department's vulnerability (3,8)
Happy about rook color (4)
Anger about queer, out celebrity ...
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Explore the square with 100 hops
This is a puzzle that was a fad when I was back in school. (It's not sooo long ago, but way before Smartphones with AngryBirds or DoodleJump came up...). For quite a while, everybody was scribbling ...
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Welcome to the Dungeon Zoo!
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #39: Deep Down in the Dungeon 1.
The next room you enter is surprisingly well-lit and empty. There are two exits from it (need I say that the door through ...
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Jail-Maze Crescendo: On charting a dot-path home
You wake up and find yourself lying on a cold, stone floor. Every part of you aches after your fall through the trapdoor. Ahead of you stands a wooden door, beyond which lies the labyrinth.
Your ...
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The Knight and the Maze
Shown below is a grid of blue and yellow squares with a knight in the upper left hand corner and green square in the lower right hand corner.
Your task is to guide the knight from its starting ...
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From within to without
Starting from the center (LIF), follow the gridlines in any direction to find a path to the outside, assembling a witty insight along the way.
You may revisit the same spot more than once.
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Can I have a 'P' please, Bob?
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #51: Non-rectangular grids. For the avoidance of doubt, while the puzzle set-up is based on a real quiz show, the exact scenario described here is entirely ...
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Help me to find a small but hard and clever maze
For a competition, I need to choose a maze puzzle, only one. There are tons of mazes, but most of them are not clever, i.e. they are just solved by trial and error.
Few days ago I saw A blue, white ...
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Could you find the way in this maze of rebuses?
Below there is a maze that is made out of small rebuses. And when I say small, I mean really small: every rebus is only 18x18 pixels!
All rebuses can be solved independently from each other, and ...
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Thunderbolt, with other stuff
Find 1) the correct path through the maze and 2) a six-letter thematic answer.
Text version:
Blood
Father
Metal
Too strong
Data storage device
Capital's inlet
Capital
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Polar climate
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A Code from the Lines
Yeah. I think this puzzle will be the hardest puzzle on Puzzling...
I'll add one hint per 3 days, I'll add a VERY helpful tag on the 3rd week, and I'll post the answer and explanation on the 4th week....
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We solved the invisible maze
We did it! We finally solved the invisible maze! In case anyone else wants to try, I'll reproduce our steps here.
Here's the maze:
The rules:
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1 in, 1 out (The Security to the Party Maze)
A party is being held at a local mansion. The host is very rich and his success is because of one thing ~ his famous recipe for spaghetti!
The spaghetti recipe is kept in a secret room inside the ...
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A 1-D labyrinth
Bob is busy saving the world on Puzzling Stack Exchange by tracking down yet another super-villain. Alice rushes in holding a long paper.
A: I made a discovery you will like.
B: I am not on Facebook.
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The little bee buzzes around the flower garden
Watch the little bee buzz around the flower garden. Pay particular attention to how he picks up or drops off pollen (i.e., a single letter) at each flower.
Notice:
— The little bee visits each ...
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Honeydripping around the clock
What path could a honeybee follow,
beginning and ending at top center,
visiting every empty cell exactly once
and dripping 2 drops of honey into the last cell?
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Number maze with a rule on it
The rules are:
You start at 1
No diagonal moves, and you must move 1 step at a time
You must follow this pattern: $a < b > c < d > ...$ (assuming letters are numbers)
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A letter from Mr. Pirate, Mr. Roller, and Mr. Knight
Though I don't think it will help, you may check with the beginning of my story concerning Red Herring Puzzle Club.
It seems like it's been a long time since I tried to enter the R.H.P.C. As you may ...
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