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Deusovi Honeypot
For full meta effect, I should beat Deusovi to the answer before he sees this puzzle ... :->
$\def\G #1{\color{lime}{\text{#1}}}$
$\def\R #1{\color{red}{\text{#...
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Deusovi Honeypot
This question already has very good answers, but I wanted to share my intuition for why the given maze has no solution. This is a visual approach to the problem that I find a lot easier to grasp. It ...
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A Bomber Maze™™™
My path (red blotches are bombs)
Explanation:
Here I have highlighted important walls in purple, splitting the maze into sections. Anywhere within a section is reachable without a bomb. Going ...
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Number maze with a rule on it
Since we alternate between increasing and deceasing, we can color the maze like a checkerboard, where we alternate between black and white. This means that whenever we go from black to white we always ...
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Alice and the Fractal Hedge Maze
Here is a link to a prezi. If there is anyway to export it that would be great but I'm not exactly sure how it works.
Just keep clicking next through it.
https://prezi.com/oh2efo-ejbv9/untitled-...
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The Folding Maze
My Answer:
Red lines are where you would go, yellow lines indicate moving over the fold.
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Labyrinth Puzzle
The way this maze works is:
However, there is a catch:
The path through the maze:
The final answer:
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The Knight and the Maze
If my Python programming is to be believed, the minimum number of moves required is 41:
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Deusovi Honeypot
Since I obviously cannot accept any answer (If I actually got Deusovi's attention stuck in the maze, the appearance of a green tick would ruin everything), and this seems to be getting reasonably much ...
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The No-Straight Maze
Note though that this only works because this particular maze has no straight moves available (i.e. intersections where you can't turn but only go forward). For example, using the same rules, if you ...
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A torus maze™™™™™
My path:
Or,
Explanation:
Here I have highlighted the important walls in purple, splitting the maze into sections. Every area within a section can be reached from every other, and (obviously, since ...
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A puzzling image maze!
Solved
Map:
Individual Puzzles:
As per @Henkie's post, the second door from EXAMPLE ROOM solved
COLLISIONS solved
REASSEMBLY solved
GET TWO FREE solved
MAZES IN MAZES solved
HALF THE PICTURE ...
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The Persistence Of Memory
Solution:
1. I started with the left room. The key for this room is
Like so
2. Next note that
Like so
3. Next note that
Like so:
4. Then
So we have
5. Now
Like so
6. Almost finally...
Like ...
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A blue, white and red maze
If going over the same path twice is allowed, this is a probable solution. I just started at the end and worked my way backwards to the start since there is only one possibility for the second-last ...
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Help me to find a small but hard and clever maze
Here's a maze of mine.
Start at the top left square. End at the bottom right.
RULES: You must stay on a color for exactly THREE squares. You may not do a U-turn (return to the square you just came ...
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Magic Maze Puzzle
Okay. THAT. WAS. INCREDIBLE!
It took me two solid hours of work to solve and even longer to write and draw it all up here - hopefully it'll be worth it! To start us off, here is the final maze layout ...
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The Ludicrous Loop: over a thousand cells of circular logic!
MASSIVE SPOILER ALERT, DO NOT LOOK UNLESS YOU REALLY HAVE GIVEN UP
Full solution.
No words needed.
(Hopefully there are no mistakes)
Plus, the lines and text were fully hand-drawn for those of you ...
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Edward's Maze I
A very well-written puzzle! And very good visualization! This site needs more good puzzle-writer like you =D
Guess it must be very troublesome to fit all those mazes and turns using the simple rule. ...
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Speak the password and enter, if you dare
Phew, this took some perseverance! The route through the maze traces the following overlapping path:
To navigate it, we must trace out:
Which means the password - spelled out by the letters hidden ...
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A-maze-ing Wordsearch
The solution is this path:
The clues that give it to us:
The complete list of connections is:
Here's the spreadsheet where we all figured this out; I've made copies at various times so you can see ...
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The Folding Maze
Well, you beat me by 30 minutes, but I worked hard on this so I'm posting it anyway :)
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Welcome to the Dungeon Zoo!
I am not very familiar with these monsters, but after some research I would name them like this:
If I combine the path through the maze with the names of the creatures living in the rooms I get
So ...
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A 1-D labyrinth
I think that the easiest way to solve this 1-D maze is to think of it as
This allows you to visualize it as follows:
In text form a solution is:
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A Page of Puzzling
The solution is
The crossword was first solved by @NeilW, and @Sconibulus solved the alphametic and the maze (go upvote them!).
For the Sudoku:
For the Anagram:
For the Logic puzzle:
Back to the ...
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