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Logic Mazeswritten by Robert Abbott |
The following are pointers to everything that is on this site. |
Five Easy Mazes: |
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Most of the mazes on this site are pretty complicatedso, here are some easy mazes you might want to try. You can start with Easy Maze 1 and then follow the pointers to the other mazes, or you can go directly to Easy Maze 2, 3, 4, or 5. | |||
Eyeball Mazes: |
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These mazes are currently being used as a contest by the Catalan Culture Ministry. See the note at the end of the instructions. | |||
Alice Mazes: |
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These are called Alice mazes because they recall the scene in Alice in Wonderland where Alice eats a piece of cake with the sign Eat Me and grows larger, then she drinks from a bottle marked Drink Me and becomes smaller. These mazes wont make you larger or smaller, but the distance you travel in a move will get larger or smaller. | |||
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Sliding Door Maze: |
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Tilt Mazes: |
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Number Mazes: |
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Things That Roll: |
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I also have a collection of rolling-cube mazes. These involve rolling a single die across a page. They were predecessors to the rolling-block mazes. |
The Bureaucratic Maze: |
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This maze has been tried a few times by me and other people. Wei-Hwa Huang ran a variation that he disguised as a registration process. The participants did not even know they were in a maze (at least, not at first). Eric Shamblen turned a variation of the maze into an on-line program that you can play on your own. The Bureaucratic Maze may (or may not) appear again at some time in the future. |
Starry Night Maze: |
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What I had submitted to GAMES was an abstract maze drawn on a grid of hexagons. Jim Malloy, the magazines art director, came up with a theme for the maze and he created the art for the cover. I then programmed an interactive version of the maze and I incorporated Malloys art. It looks quite good. And not only that, if you solve the maze, the program has a winning display where all the stars twinkle. I can stare at that for hours (well maybe at least two minutes). My interactive version is on the GAMES site, at this location. | |||
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Theseus and the Minotaur: |
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Second, there is the Kristanix download. This has 87 large-screen levels for computers. Its price is $9.95, but you can download the entire game for free, then play it for a while before you decide whether to buy it. Third, there is the version for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. It has the same 87 levels and only costs $3.99. There is also a free version, Theseus Lite, that has a sampling of levels from the full version. The Theseus page has more about the three ways of playing these mazes. It also has a long history of the mazes, which goes back to my original print version in 1990. There is also a discussion of Toby Nelsons layout- | |||
A booklet you can order from me: |
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Some of these articles generated many e-mail responses, some of which I added to the end of the article. Often, the responses are better than the article itself.
Walk-Through Logic Mazes:
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Mazes in Cities:
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How to Locate a Good Cornfield Maze:
Mazes We Visited Summer of 2007:
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Mazes to Visit:
The Garden Maze at Luray, Virginia:
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Sacred Labyrinths:
New Age Flim Flam at a Labyrinth in Santa Fe:
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What Logic Is Not:
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Numb3rs about Logic Mazes:
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Video Games are Incredibly Stupid:
Reviews:
Plain Old SolitaireMaybe It Isnt as Dumb as Everyone Thinks:
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