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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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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How to fill a honeymoon
How can a honeybee visit all cells
exactly once in this crescent shaped honeycomb,
beginning at the bottom tip and ending at the top?
The starting cell, at ...
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Programming the ColorBot
"Welcome!" says the strange professor. "I hear you have come to see my newest robot. Well, he's actually slightly broken right now, but let's take a look anyway."
He shows you a robot with twelve ...
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H-one-one-oneycomb
What path could a honeybee follow
to fill all cells with honey,
beginning and ending at the center
and visiting every cell exactly once?
At first the only ...
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Get the largest number using the crazy circuit board
There is a crazy circuit board with three kinds of elements which can change the signal value. All intersecting paths are connected (but paths touching by a single point are disconnected).
There is ...
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Find your way to the control room
You are a space explorer, who accidentally finds an alien spaceship which seems to be deserted. You, and your team want to get to the control room, but you understand aliens and their technology only ...
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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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2 Knights tied together in a dangerous maze
2 knight pieces of the game chess were trying to find their way to freedom, while being tied together with a small rope.
It was so small that it forced them to be placed in adjacent squares at all ...
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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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The Collapse of Memory
(This puzzle is a sequel to 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 ...
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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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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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The maze of letters - Clue Three
<---Previous clue
This is an entry in the 12th Fortnightly Topic Challenge
Inspiration from @BMyGuest's puzzle
After keying in your answer, the screen goes dark, and emits a BEEP!You step back ...
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Number-maze (1,...,560)
This is an entry to the 12th fortnightly challenge.
This maze is built out of the integers $1,\dots,560$. You may step from $k$ to $2k$, or from $3k+1$ to $5k+1$, or vice versa in each case, provided ...
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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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A Maze of Colors
I'm back and I have another maze for you. This time it'll be an image with squares of color.
Start at the yellow block and end at the red block, both of which are at the bottom border of the maze. ...
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Labyrinthus Londoninensis, or The Equestrian Perplexed
This is far from an original puzzle, but I thought it fit our current fortnightly challenge so well that it ought to be included here.
I saw it on the Futility Closet website, but it was originally ...
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A Mqze of Miszpeked Worfs
I have another maze for you to do. This one is english, the last was computer-puzzles. But you see, they may look like the opposite of mazes, but you can find a way to enter and exit, and thus win.
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A Maze of Characters
I have a maze here with me. However, this maze is quite hard to see.
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The bottom of the list of characters is the start of the maze. The top is the ...
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A-maze-ing Tiles
This is an entry to the 12th fortnightly challenge
"No, No, No! You are smart, I give you that, but finding your way through the previous mazes will not free you from my fury!"
Sigh, and ...
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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-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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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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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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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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It's all about the journey
Are you able to find the hidden word?
It's all about the journey, not the destination.
Come on! Find the route to exit.
Only key to understand all this, is the aged wise owner of the pitiless ...
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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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Lost In Boston: How do I Get Home?
I'm posting this from my phone again because I've gotten hopelessly lost in Boston, really want to go home, and desperately need the help of some clever people on the internet. Please help me - I'm ...
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Seeking Sidekicks
Video game theme period has ended but have another puzzle anyway.
You're in some sort of apartment of interconnecting rooms. The below map materializes in your hands (so magical), highlighting that ...
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Strategy for getting out of Hedge maze?
I often wonder: suppose I wake up one day and find myself in a maze of Hedges, like the one in "The Shining", what is the best strategy to get out of it?
We can assume we have sunlight or a torch if ...
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Eat It! Through Multi Paths
Here's a custom Pac-Man level. Pac-Man is to do what Pac-Man always does: eat, eat, eat! Wait, where are the pac-dots?
INSTRUCTIONS MANUAL
There are 3 hidden phrases representing otherworldly items ...
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Lights in the Dungeon: Eighteen by Eleven
This is the fourth in a series Lights in the Dungeon puzzles.
previous (3rd) <--|--> next (5th)
The five by five dungeon was only a little harder than the previous ones. You're feeling pretty ...
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Lights in the Dungeon: Five by Five
This is the third in a series Lights in the Dungeon puzzles.
previous (2nd) <-- | --> next (4th)
You are practically skipping as you leave the four by four dungeon. This has been pretty easy so ...
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Lights in the Dungeon: Four by Four
This is the second in a series Lights in the Dungeon puzzles.
previous (1st) <-- | --> next (3rd)
As you exit the three by three dungeon, you are greeted by a grinning Lord Hooty McOwlface. A ...
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Lights in the Dungeon: Three by Three
This is the first in a series Lights in the Dungeon puzzles.
It is intended to be easy to help work out unpredicted kinks for future puzzles that are built around the same story.
-> next (2nd)
You ...
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I'm hidden in the maze
I am hidden in the shortest route through this maze.
Twice, if you know what you're looking for.
More clues to follow (although I'm sure you're unlikely to need them)...
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Computer-controlled maze
You have to build a maze whose exit can be changed by a computer. The maze consists of one entrance, hallways which can intersect, and $n$ exits.
The computer has several wires leaving it each ...
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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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Maze Solving Robot, More Difficult Variant
You are trying to design a maze solving robot, capable of solving "valid" mazes. A valid maze is an 8 by 8 checkerboard, surrounded by walls, where
Between each pair of orthogonally adjacent squares, ...
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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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Good maze creation software?
I'm trying to make a maze for a puzzle hunt, and I can't find any good software for creating them.
I seek an appropriate simple drawing tool, not a program to automatically create the maze.
I ...
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The Origins of a Confusing Maze
Behold a maze of fuses (the black dotted lines) laid out on a grid:
The fuses can be lit, causing sparks to burn along them at a perfectly uniform rate: one segment per ...
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Can Isaac get an even tan?
Isaac is in need of money to buy himself a car so he can go to the beach with his friends, so he's decided to start a lawn mowing business. When mowing lawns, he needs to make sure he gets an even tan ...
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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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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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The Railway Maze
This puzzle is originally created by by Roger Penrose. The goal is to guide the train all the way to the station via the railways, without ever reversing or taking sharp turns. The train can only ...
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Dragon maze (collect stars and exit)
Here is a maze I found in a book. Normally I wouldn't think a maze is really hard enough to be worth this site, but I can guarantee this one will take atleast 15 minutes to solve.
You must enter from ...
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Maze Generation Algorithm [closed]
You must design an algorithm for a 16x17 rectangle grid. Each "cell" is either a wall or an opening. This algorithm must achieve a maze without long hallways in 1 general direction, and must have dead ...
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