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Each Saturday I post a new hard maze with all of them sitting in the Hard Maze Archive. I will try to post a variety of maze types to keep things interesting.
Weekly Hard Maze #16 - Weaving Maze
I made this weaving maze by combining 3 other mazes from a book I did. Solution will be in the archive. Download is below.
If you solved that maze quickly and want to try some of my archival hard mazes, these posts should do the trick:
This is a continuation of my maze design experiments. Read about it in post #1, One Maze - Many designs, then The first 5 experiments and so on with a new post every Friday, or just enjoy the ride.
The original maze:
I have been thinking about distractions a lot lately. I blame the pings on my phone. As far as mazes are concerned, a bad background can be very distracting while I good one can improve a maze.
I used Inkscape to play around with backgrounds this week. The maze is the same in each version.
The first maze was made using 3 large circles which intersect and overlap.
The second maze was inspired by quilts again. this version is more colorful than a past version I made.
The third maze uses 2 simple triangles to color the background.
The fourth maze seems to have caught a virus of small colorful dots.
The fifth maze is a grey checkerboard background.
What did I learn from this experiment ? The dots are very distracting. The checkerboard and quilts also mess with your eyes. The large design backgrounds are fine - no issues with distraction at all for me, they are just colorful backgrounds to enjoy.
Do you like challenging mazes ? Do you like mazes meant to confuse you ? Mazes that take a long time to solve ? Mazes that have no dead ends (Did you know that was a thing?) ? Well, you have come to the right place. I have made one of my favorite maze types, the Pipe Maze and I have made it very large !
In the past I have made some other large mazes:
The Largest Arrow Maze in the World (probably)
The Largest Mobile Maze - this is the longest maze on the site !
And a large labyrinth:
The 99 Circuit Square Labyrinth
I thought it would be fun to add to the collection with another challenging maze. If you are not familiar with Pipe Mazes, they are a type of weaving maze, so the pathways weave above and below each other, making seeing dead ends that much more difficult. For my maze I took the option to make NO dead ends, meaning any wrong pathway (pipe) taken loops within the maze. This can become frustrating, or fun depending on how you look at it. If you want to make your own pipe maze, I have you covered:
I also added a section of them on the site: Kids Pipe Mazes so you can give them a try on a smaller scale, or, if I get you really addicted to them I made a book of 100 Pipe mazes for Amazon.
Or if you just want to see and solve it, here it is. It is formatted as 30 x 60 inches. Good Luck ! Download available below (with separate solution). I already mentioned that I made this maze with NO DEAD ENDS, and if you think that is a good thing - well it just means wrong pathways are punished with loops within loops !
The Largest Pipe Maze in the World
If you like difficult mazes, I have added a section of hard mazes to the site, that I update with a new maze each week.
Some other interesting blog posts:
Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King (2022) IMDB
This is a Netflix documentary about Gerry Cotten, and his mysterious death while he was the CEO and founder of a Canadian crypto firm called Quadriga. He died at the young age of 30 from complications due to Crohn’s disease while on vacation in India. The documentary delves into apparent fraud and the difficulty investors had on getting their money out after his death. The story is interesting with a few twists along the way. I wish the story led to a different outcome, but this is still an interesting story to follow along with. What do you do when the person with the codes to the crypto wallet dies unexpectedly ? I would not be surprised if there were updates on this story in the future.
Early in the movie we see some amateur video footage of Gerry in a large red maze. I thought nothing of it, but we get a callback at the end with additional footage in the maze and it really does fit the theme of the movie. This is a complex story that can be confusing and you are not sure where it is leading you - just like a maze.
I give this a 6.8/10. Get rich slow is the better way to go.
Additional posts and sections you may like:
Francesco Segala - The world's first maze artist
