My 2025 Year in Review

This is my year end review for the website to reflect on what I accomplished for the year. I do this post each year and I keep the previous years data.…so 7 years of progress !! Skip ahead to a section with these jump links based on the blog outline:

do you maze 2025 logo

And now the data for the year:


Weekly (Daily) Mazes posted:

2025: 52 - Mazes of the week, plus a few extras (25 vehicle)

2024: 53 - Mazes of the week, each with an alternative colorway !

2023: 52 - Mazes of the week - see all 52 in this video !

2022: 54 - Mazes of the week

2021: 640 - daily mazes with some Spanish language variations

2020: 366 - daily mazes

2019: 365 - daily mazes

 

Blog Posts:

2025: 327 - includes updates to over 100 old posts

2024: 227 (160 remain on the site)

2023: 192 (138 remain on the site)

2022: 132 (68 remain on the site)

2021: 291 (168 remain on the site)

2020: 102 (61 remain on the site)

2019: 26 (8 remain on the site)

If you want to read the blog posts that remain, check out my blog index. I anticipate more blog posts in 2025 as I increase my updating schedule to keep posts fresh ! But 927 blog posts about mazes and labyrinths since the website started is a lot !

 

Name Mazes Made

2025: 189

2024: 220

2023: 104

2022: 13

2021: 4

2020: 247

2019: 1,499

Since 2021 I have only been doing doing maze name requests when they were submitted. I had many teachers reach out for classrooms full of unique names ! I think I rank well for this on many search engines so I get a lot of maze name traffic !

 

Books posted online:

2025: 17

2024: 0

2023: 0

2022: 2

2021: 12

2020: 8

2019: 19

I made many new sections on the site which included books.

 

Books Published on Amazon:

2025: 5

2024: 0

2023: 0

2022: 0

2021: 13

2020: 0

2019: 0

I launched a series of books in the Fall. If you like Arrow Mazes, this was a good year for you !

 

Website Traffic growth:

2025: + 132% LY

2024: + 33% LY

2023: + 36% LY

2022: + 47% LY

2021: + 242% LY

2020: +1000% PL

2019: **

I did a lot of SEO work. AI seems to like me (before it makes me obsolete?)

 

Different countries visiting the site:

2025: 207 according to Google analytics ?

2024: 200 according to Google analytics. Depending on how you count the # of countries, that means just about every country. Except North Korea….and I will need to research to see if anyone else is missing.

2023: 169 - I changed how I track this and think the 100 below might have been inaccurate. Out of 195 or so depending on the list you look at.

2022: 100

2021: 100

2020: 99

2019: 20

 

YouTube Views:

2025: 1,524

2024: 1,972

2023: 2,245

2022: 303

2021: 264

I posted no videos in 2025

 

YouTube Subscribers:

2025: 36

2024: 31

2023: 17

2022: 6

2021: 3

 

Pinterest:

I have no idea how to quantify this, but I have a Pinterest Page. It is small. I don’t do much there. Here is my traffic from there to my site:

2025: 1,714 + 57% LY

2024: 1,091 + 343% LY

2023: 318

Large growth as a percent, but a small part of the traffic to the site.

Some statistics about the 52 mazes I featured this year:

  • The first half of the year featured previous mazes that I redid to hopefully improve them. #158-182.

  • The middle section featured mazes I hadn’t previously published for one reason or another (wanted to improve them or they were previous commission mazes) #183-189. They are all types of scenes, from skylines to beaches to mountains.

  • And finally I finished the year with my Land, Air, Sea and Space Collection that featured mazes of vehicles. Each of those mazes can be found in the Vehicle Maze Section of the site. There are 13 Land, 2 Air, 2 Sea and 3 Space Mazes.

I wanted to give everyone an overview of all the mazes of the week that were featured on the site this year (#’s 158-209). If you want to see all of the mazes of the week, I have made an archive that includes all of them in order (with links to downloads). This will allow me to delete most of the Monday blog posts that announce them and clean up the website. It sits in the free downloadable section of the website for now.

 

The Maze of the Week List for 2025:

Maze of the Week 10 Redux - The Alamo Mission (MOTW #158)

Maze of the Week 42 Redux - Sydney Opera House - (MOTW #159)

Maze of the Week 3 Redux - Museum of the North (MOTW#160)

Maze of the Week 45 Redux - Air Force Cadet Chapel (MOTW#161)

Maze of the Week 38 Redux - Hoover Dam (MOTW #162)

Maze of the Week 27 Redux - Lincoln Memorial (MOTW #163)

Maze of the Week 8 Redux - Abraham Lincoln Maze (MOTW#164)

Maze of the Week 99 Redux - Berlin Planetarium (MOTW#165)

Maze of the Week 94 Redux - BMW Welt (MOTW# 166)

Maze of the Week 39 Redux - Spaceship Earth at Epcot Center (MOTW#167)

Maze of the Week 13 Redux - Clayton Theatre (MOTW #168)

MOTW# 25 Redux - National Center for Human and Civil Rights (MOTW#169)

Maze of the Week 23 Redux - Wrigley Field Sign (MOTW#170)

Maze of the Week 59 Redux - QRO Walking Street (MOTW #171)

Maze of the Week 49 Redux - Chich'en Itza (MOTW #172)

Maze of the Week 64 Redux - Leeds Castle (MOTW#173)

Maze Redux - Darth Vader (MOTW#174)

Maze of the Week 77 Redux - Giraffe (MOTW #175)

Maze of the Week 79 Redux - Severance Hall (MOTW#176)

Maze of the Week 46 Redux - The Free Stamp (MOTW#177)

Maze of the Week 75 Redux - Peter B Lewis Building (MOTW#178)

Maze of the Week 92 Redux - Kresge Auditorium (MOTW #179)

Maze of the Week 91 Redux - Monte Alban (MOTW#180)

Maze of the Week Re-Dux #56 - Matrimandir at Auroville Maze (MOTW#181)

Maze of the Week Re-Dux #36 - Key West Buoy (MOTW#182)

And here are some new mazes:

Maze of the Week #183 - The Gateway Arch

Maze of the Week #184 - San Antonio Skyline Maze

Maze of the Week #185 - Grande anse du diamant maze

Maze of the Week #186 - Catalina Island Shore Maze

Maze of the Week #187 - Beach Scene Maze

Maze of the Week #188 - Matterhorn Maze

Maze of the Week #189 - Dragon Tree Maze

And here begins the new kids Vehicle Mazes:

Maze of the Week #190 - School bus Maze

Maze of the Week #191 - Locomotive Maze

Maze of the Week #192 - Camper Maze

Maze of the Week #193 - Double Decker Bus Maze

Maze of the Week #194 - Volkswagen Beetle Maze

Maze of the Week #195 - Tractor Maze

Maze of the Week #196 - 18 Wheeler Maze

Maze of the Week #197 - Front Loader Maze

Maze of the Week #198 - Bulldozer Maze

Maze of the Week #199 - Motorcycle Maze

Maze of the Week #200 - Taxi Cab Maze

Maze of the Week #201 - Monster Truck Maze

Maze of the Week #202 - Submarine Maze

Maze of the Week #203 - Wooden Sailing Ship Maze

Maze of the Week #204 - Aircraft Maze

Maze of the Week #205 - Space Shuttle Maze

Maze of the Week #206 - Space Station Maze

Maze of the Week #207 - Snow Cruiser Maze

Maze of the Week #208 - Santa's Sleigh Maze

Maze of the Week #209 - Lunar Lander Maze

 

Here are my 9 biggest blog posts for 2025:

Blog posts on making mazes:


Blog posts about real world mazes and labyrinths:

Movie related blog posts:


Other blog posts:

My Favorite Mazes from 2025

I made hundreds of mazes this year. I wanted to reflect on my favorites for the year. I made 52 mazes of the week and 52 comic book covers. I also made some extra vehicle mazes I posted throughout the year and I posted some found mazes from the past. Here are my favorites. They include 5 vehicle mazes, 3 mazes I remade by coloring them and a new Star Wars maze !

And here are my 7 favorite comic book covers. I seem to like the bad guys this year for some reason. I really enjoy making these comic book covers. Click to see larger versions of them !

So that is my year in review. I have a plan for 2026 which is one of my next blog posts. Expect more mazes that hopefully people like !

My 2024 Year in Review

THIS POST BEING UPDATED TODAY IF YOU ARE READING THIS !

This is my year end review for the website to reflect on what I accomplished for the year. I do this post each year and I keep the previous years data.…so 6 years of progress !! Here is an outline if you are interested in jumping to a particular section:

2024 Website Data

My Top 5 YouTube Videos from 2024

Mazes of the Week #105 - #157

My 10 biggest blog posts of the year

My Favorite Mazes from 2024

My 10 Favorite Comic Book Maze Covers

My 2025 Website Outlook (link to a separate post)

2024 logo

2024 Website Data:

Weekly (Daily) Mazes posted:

2024: 53 - Mazes of the Week, each with an alternative colorway !

2023: 52 - Mazes of the week - see all 52 in this video !

2022: 54 - Mazes of the week

2021: 640 - daily mazes with some Spanish language variations

2020: 366 - daily mazes

2019: 365 - daily mazes

So overall there were 106 mazes this year with the variations. I like the weekly maze vs. the daily maze and don’t see myself ever going back !


Blog Posts:

2024: 227

2023: 192 (189 remain on the site)

2022: 132 (119 remain on the site)

2021: 291 (207 remain on the site)

2020: 102 (84 remain on the site)

2019: 26 (12 remain on the site)

If you want to read the blog posts that remain, check out my blog index. I anticipate less blog posts in 2025 as I reduce my writing schedule to focus on creating mazes ! But 970 blog posts about mazes and labyrinths since the website started is a lot !


Name Mazes Made

2024: 220

2023: 104

2022: 13

2021: 4

2020: 247

2019: 1,499

Since 2021 I have only been doing doing maze name requests when they were submitted. I had many teachers reach out for classrooms full of unique names ! I think I rank well for this on many search engines so I get a lot of maze name traffic !


Books posted online:

2024: 0

2023: 0

2022: 2

2021: 12

2020: 8

2019: 19

I re-published 1 book with some changes to make it more kid friendly…I anticipate this number changing in 2025 !

Books Published on Amazon:

2024: 0

2023: 0

2022: 0

2021: 13

2020: 0

2019: 0

I am working on a new book now. I expect to launch multiple new books in the Fall. Drop me an email if you want to be alerted when I launch a new book.


Website Traffic growth:

2024: + 33% LY

2023: + 36% LY

2022: + 47% LY

2021: + 242% LY

2020: +1000% PL

2019: **

And the bigger you get the harder it is to grow even larger in the future. Unless SEO suddenly likes me (or doesn’t). I made some changes to the site in October. Let’s see if they help grow the site in 2025 !


Different countries visiting the site:

2024: 200 according to Google analytics. Depending on how you count the # of countries, that means just about every country. Except North Korea….and I will need to research to see if anyone else is missing.

2023: 169 - I changed how I track this and think the 100 below might have been inaccurate. Out of 195 or so depending on the list you look at.

2022: 100

2021: 100

2020: 99

2019: 20

YouTube Views:

2024: 1,972

2023: 2,245

2022: 303

2021: 264

The channel is not doing well. I have no plans for videos in 2025 unless I figure out a new format that might work !

YouTube Subscribers:

2024: 31

2023: 17

2022: 6

2021: 3

Considering the numbers of videos on the channel this is terrible.

Pinterest:

I have no idea how to quantify this, but I have a Pinterest Page. It is small. I don’t do much there. Here is my traffic from there to my site:

2024: 1,091 + 343% LY

2023: 318

Large growth as a percent, but a small part of the traffic to the site. I am sure I will focus on this in 2025 for one good week at least….

My top 5 YouTube Videos from 2024

How to Make a Classical 7 Circuit Labyrinth

This video was made in 2023 and I include it because it is my most watched video. All other videos will be from 2024 !

1 - Bison Quick Maze

I have no idea why some mazes get watched and others don’t…Bison ? Of most 20 most watched videos, only 2 are from 2024, this maze and the next. Clearly the making of comic book style mazes is not interesting !

Mazes of the Week #105 - #157

Some statistics about the 52 mazes I featured this year:

  • All mazes were done in comic book style, the theme for the year.

  • It includes 39 animal mazes, 11 character mazes, and 3 insect mazes. Of those animals it includes 6 birds, 4 aquatic animals and 3 dogs.

  • Each maze except the dragon maze included a color or design variation for a total of 104 total mazes. The dragon maze instead had 2 color variations without a maze, but the Bulldog maze had 3 colors so we still get 104 mazes !

  • All mazes are stored in the comic style section of the site, which includes some of the early comic book mazes from 2023. Downloads of each maze are available there.

  • Each maze was made into a themed comic book cover that can be seen in the comic book cover section.

The Maze List (no links since they can all be found in one place !):

#105 Snowman

#106 Eagle

#107 Penguin

#108 Squirrel

#109 Groundhog

#110 Dinosaur

#111 Dragon

#112 Dog - Labrador

#113 Polar Bear

#114 Vampire

#115 Leprechaun

#116 Panther

#117 Bunny

#118 Spider

#119 Dolphin

#120 Dog- Bulldog

#121 Horse

#122 Frog

#123 Leopard

#124 Monarch Butterfly

#125 Turtle

#126 Therizinosaurus

#127 Bear

#128 Cow

#129 Crocodile

#130 Catfish

#131 Scarecrow

#132 Minotaur

#133 Shark

#134 Tiger

#135 Clown

#136 Owl

#137 Lion

#138 Honey Bee

#139 Dog - Yorkie Poo

#140 Samurai

#141 Warrior

#142 Rhino

#143 Koala

#144 Chicken

#145 Badger

#146 Wolf

#147 Mule

#148 La Catrina

#149 Bison

#150 Peacock

#151 Pirate

#152 Turkey

#153 Elk

#154 Llama

#155 Monkey

#156 Gingerbread Man

#157 Quokka

My 10 biggest blog posts of the year

Today I want to highlight my best performing blog posts that were published in 2024. Here they are in random order:

Each week I picked a state in the US and researched the labyrinths that are free to visit for the public. These 2 states got the most traffic and you can find all my suggestions in the US Labyrinth visit section of the site. These 2 states were written early in the year and had the advantage of more time on the site !

I have a large section of the site that I have dedicated to reviewing movies that deal with mazes and labyrinths. You may be surprised that there are over 100 maze movies ! Some of the best movies ever made are maze movies (I submit my proof : The Top 12 Best Maze / Labyrinth Movies of all time).

I did a search to see what people wanted to know about mazes, then I answered each question in one blog post.

I had never made many circle mazes before and wanted to explore them and practice making them. This long post is a result of that project. Includes a bit of a case study and some templates so you can make your own circle maze.

I pulled together 6 different maze types into a booklet that is available for download for free. Each of the mazes is difficult and a challenge to solve.

I am not the only website that features free printable mazes. This updated list includes this site, and many other similar sites if you like mazes like I do !

This post pulls together all of my maze case studies, and is continually updated with new content as I write new posts. If you are a fan of maze design or graphic design concepts this is the maze post for you.

Despite the longer time to design and create them I am a big fan of pipe mazes. Why ? Well, most of the ones I design have no dead ends, instead relying on loops to confuse and frustrate the solver. I hope this maze does just that ! Can be found in it’s own largest pipe section also. Was a follow-up to the much larger Largest Arrow Maze in the World (probably).

My Favorite Mazes from 2024

Typically at this time of the year I put up a poll to vote on the maze of the year. This year’s theme was of comic book style mazes, a particular style I liked making and decided to expand into a full year of mazes. Today, I have selected my 10 favorite mazes of the year. You can vote on your favorite maze at the end if you’d like, but I selected these 10 from the 52 (104 with variations) I made this year. I hope you like them ! Click to see a larger version of each.

I also selected my 10 favorite comic books. They tend to be a bit pun-ny, but I really enjoyed creating them for you every Tuesday !

My 10 Favorite Comic Book Maze Covers

Click to see larger versions of the covers.

So that is my year in review. I have a plan for 2025 which is one of my next blog posts. Hello from the future ! My 2025 Website Outlook.

My 2023 Year in Review

This is my year end review for the website to reflect on what I accomplished for the year. I do this post each year and I keep the previous years data.…so 5 years of progress !! Each year things are a bit different. I have already written a posts that summarize the best blog posts of the year. Plus I have the results of the maze of the year voting at the bottom of the post !

Maze of the Year Finalists:

And now the data for the year:

Weekly (Daily) Mazes posted:

2023: 52 - Mazes of the week - see all 52 in this video !

2022: 54 - Mazes of the week

2021: 640 - daily mazes with some Spanish language variations

2020: 366 - daily mazes

2019: 365 - daily mazes

I did do variations of many mazes this year, but typically only posted 1 version on the homepage. I’m happy with weekly mazes vs. daily.



Blog Posts:

2023: 192

2022: 132 (120 remain on the site)

2021: 291 (207 remain on the site)

2020: 102 (85 remain on the site)

2019: 26 (12 remain on the site)

I kept a good schedule for most of the year and plan to continue that into the future ! I have also deleted over 100 old posts to clean up my blog index and consolidate some of the topics.



Name Mazes Made

2023: 104

2022: 13

2021: 4

2020: 247

2019: 1,499

Since 2021 I have only been doing doing maze name requests when they were submitted, and not many were. Hopefully this is because I have many names covered already !



Books posted online:

2023: 0

2022: 2

2021: 12

2020: 8

2019: 19

With the change in site content there are no longer mazes available for books.



Books Published on Amazon:

2023: 0

2022: 0

2021: 13

2020: 0

2019: 0

I (still) have 3 additional books sitting on the shelf, ready for publication if I come up with a marketing plan.



Website Traffic growth:

2023: + 36% LY

2022: + 47% LY

2021: + 242% LY

2020: +1000% PL

2019: **

And the bigger you get the harder it is to grow even larger in the future. Unless SEO suddenly likes me (or doesn’t).



Different countries visiting the site:

2023: 169 - I changed how I track this and think the 100 below might have been inaccurate. Out of 195 or so depending on the list you look at.

2022: 100

2021: 100

2020: 99

2019: 20

YouTube Views:

2023: 2,245

2022: 303

2021: 264

The channel is not doing well. While I could stop making videos…nah. See my 2024 outlook for updates on this.



YouTube Subscribers:

2023: 17

2022: 6

2021: 3

Wow. Low. A percentage would make this look much better, but the raw numbers are more accurate.



RSS Subscribers to the blog:

Fluctuates during the year. Currently - 66% from peak this Summer and -15% LY (after a big rise). So I need to start writing about subjects that people enjoy again.

And while we are on the blog:

My 10 best blog posts of the year:

THE 10 BEST MAZE-MAKING DESIGN TEMPLATES TO GET YOU STARTED

I saw an opportunity to expand an earlier post I had written with new material and updates. This post gives you 20 free downloads of different templates that are halfway complete with instructions on how to complete them and make a maze ! 10 of those are holiday themed and great for kids !

AN EXPLORATION INTO AI IMAGE MAZE GENERATION

Post #1 in my series that kicked off how text to image generators did creating mazes. If you click on this post you can read how each website did until you get to my summary….

WHAT I LEARNED USING AI TO MAKE MAZE ART

No surprise that this post does well. Earlier in the year I experimented with a variety of AI text to image generators to see how they compared on making mazes. This is post #15 in the series which summarizes what I found.

THE 10 MOST FAMOUS LABYRINTHS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Despite being a website dedicated to mazes and labyrinths I had never pulled together a list of famous labyrinths. The list is purposefully a bit quirky and contains places that most lists would not consider.

MAKING MAZES WITH AI: DEEPAI

Part of the AI series I mentioned above, this is the most popular site that people want to read about. A bit of a spoiler, DeepAI is not very good at making mazes, especially compared to other sites.

EXPLORING DIFFERENT WAYS TO SOLVE A MAZE

I initially made a similar post where I just wanted to ask people (using a poll) how they liked to solve mazes. This took me down a rabbit hole of research where I learned about things like Trémaux's Algorithm and the Pledge Algorithm Method.

MAKING MAZES WITH AI: AI IMAGE GENERATOR

I am going straight to the spoiler - I would use this site for inspiration to make a maze, but not much more.

MAZE OF THE WEEK #54 - HEYDAR ALIYEV CENTER MAZE

It is not always the most famous buildings that do the most traffic to the site (but it usually is). Located in Baku, Azerbaijan I have gotten notes thanking me for making it from the country.

10 PLACES WHERE YOU CAN BUY SPECTACULAR MAZE ART

Exactly what it says. Some of the biggest art sites have maze art, and some are lacking. Find out who is who here.

THE SURPRISING BENEFITS OF SOLVING MAZES

Everyone wants to know if mazes are good for your brain. Yes, yes, they are as explained here.

Maze of the Year Results:

ALMOST - Museo Soumaya Maze - this maze has my best solution, and got a lot of votes, but just missed out on the top 5!

5. Templo de Sangre de Cristo Maze

4. Chicago Theatre Sign Maze

3. Bodiam Castle Maze

2. Taj Mahal Maze

1 - Santo Domingo Maze

So that concludes the year. Thanks again for your votes. All mazes are available for download on the site.


Mazes of the Week 53 - 104 - A Review of 2023's mazes

I wanted to give everyone an overview of all the mazes of the week that were featured on the site this year (#’s 53-104). If you want to watch the mazes I made a video showing each (shown below).

Some statistics about the 52 mazes I featured this year:

  • It includes 26 building mazes, 9 monument mazes, 6 sign mazes, 3 character mazes, 2 animal mazes, 2 scene mazes, an item, map, planet and a ship.

  • 17 mazes were from the USA, 8 mazes in Mexico, 4 India, 4 England, 2 Germany, 2 Canada, as well as mazes from Azerbaijan, China, Iceland, Myanmar, Scotland, Spain and Saudi Arabia.

  • 12 were made in black and white, 7 in both color and black and white versions, and 33 in full color !

Here are the 52 weekly mazes in order (with links to their downloads). Because of the numbering system add 52 if you want to really see the MOTW#:

  1. Museo Soumaya

  2. Heydar Aliyev Center

  3. Lotus Temple

  4. Matrimandir at Auroville

  5. NYC Subway

  6. The Gherkin

  7. QRO walking street

  8. SGAE Headquarters

  9. The Moon

  10. Windmill

  11. George Rogers Clark Memorial

  12. Leeds Castle

  13. Bridge Guardian of Traffic

  14. Jallianwala Bagh

  15. Taj Mahal

  16. Colorado Welcome Sign

  17. Bodiam Castle

  18. Bagan Temple

  19. Old Stone Butter Church

  20. KAFD Grand Mosque

  21. Hallgrímskirkja Church

  22. Templo de Sangre de Cristo

  23. Peter B Miller Building

  24. Northgate Shopping Center Sign

  25. Giraffe

  26. Elgin Car Wash

  27. Severance Hall

  28. Guangdong Museum

  29. Munson Williams Proctor Institute

  30. Mexican Door

  31. Pro Football HOF

  32. Riverside Museum

  33. Chicago Theater

  34. Tiki Totem

  35. Danzante Conchero Chichimeca

  36. Red Rocks

  37. HollyWood Sign

  38. Uxmal Mayan Ruins

  39. Monte Alban

  40. Kresge Auditorium

  41. London City Hall

  42. BMW Welt

  43. Gibraltar Point Lighthouse

  44. Laughing Pumpkin

  45. US Lightship

  46. Elm Road Drive In Theatre Sign

  47. Berlin Planetarium

  48. Santo Domingo

  49. Krampus

  50. Reindeer

  51. Santa Klaus

  52. Lamp


MY TOP 5 YOUTUBE VIDEOS FROM 2023:

I started to make videos of my Mazes of the week being made and solved on my YouTube channel. Previously I only had some old (private) videos on there that where accessible from my How to Make a Maze / How to Make a Labyrinth blog posts. During the year I made those private videos public despite them being poorer quality than I would like.

All of this leads to my 5 biggest YouTube videos of the year:


#1 Video - The Making of a Hidden Message Maze

#2 Video - How to Make a Classical 7 Circuit Labyrinth

#3 Video - How to Digitally Draw an 11 Circuit Classical Labyrinth

And now the 2 best Maze of the Week videos, which surprised me:

#4 Video - Welcome To Colorful Colorado Sign One Minute Maze

#5 Video - The Moon One Minute Maze

So that is my year in review. I learned a lot. I hope to continue growing the site, making more books, and of course posting some interesting mazes !!

Stop back in 2 days to read my plan for 2024 !

My 2022 Year in Review

This is my year end review for the website to reflect on what I accomplished for the year. In the past, I made a lot of mazes, but this year I focused on making less mazes and each being of higher quality. I do this post each year and I keep the previous years data.…so 4 years of progress !!

Weekly (Daily) Mazes posted:

54 in 2022 vs. 640 in 2021 vs. 366 in 2020 vs. 365 in 2019

This was the big change for the website. Daily Mazes became weekly mazes. I did one each week, with a few weeks containing variations. Basically a few more than 52. For a detailed breakdown of my mazes of the week see the bottom section fo this post !

Blog Posts:

132 vs. 291 vs. 102 vs. 26

I cut back on the number of posts. Each weekly maze has it’s own blog post, and I still do maze movie reviews. I also spent some quality time updating any post from previous years that still had a high amount of traffic.

Name Mazes Made

13 vs. 4 vs. 247 vs. 1,499

This was one of my first projects. You can read about how I chose the names if you are interested. So 2022 and 2021 meant only doing requests when they were submitted, and not many were. Maybe it is because I have covered all the important names already ?

Books posted online:

2 vs. 12 vs. 8 vs. 19

In my first 3 years of the site I created a lot of free downloadable content. By my count that was 39 books, some of which have been retired or improved. When you make hundreds of mazes a year this makes sense. This year - not so much, just a few Christmas books I had never published before.

Books Published on Amazon:

0 vs. 0 vs. 3 (13 versions) vs. 0

I published my first 3 books on Amazon. I have 3 additional books sitting on the shelf, ready for publication if I come up with a marketing plan.

Website Traffic growth:

+47% vs LY, 2021: 242% vs LY, +1000%+ the PY

Hoping for even more growth in 2023 ! Each year growth gets a bit smaller as I grow the site.

Different countries visiting the site:

100 vs. 100 vs. 99 vs. 20

I think that the countries are actually higher than 100, but the analytics dashboard stops there ? Largest growth came from Jamaica, Chile, Lithuania, Saudi Arabia and Hungary.

Requests for Maze use:

About the same to slightly higher

YouTube Videos Created and watched:

Zero created, but views were up to LY by about 50%.

YouTube Subscribers:

Up. 2X LY technically.

RSS Subscribers to the blog:

Fluctuates during the year. Currently flat to LY.

Books Sold on Amazon:

Slightly down

So that is my year in review. I learned a lot. I hope to continue growing the site, making more books, and of course posting some interesting mazes !!

2022 Maze of the year voting results (thank you to all who voted):

And now the top 5 mazes of 2022 as voted on by you! Of course we had a tie at #5 so 6…let’s get to it !

Some statistics about the 52 mazes of the week that I featured this year:

  • It includes 19 sign mazes, 16 building mazes, 5 monument mazes, 4 landscape mazes, 4 sculpture mazes and 4 miscellaneous mazes.

  • 44 were based on things in the USA, with only 4 other countries represented: France, Australia, Mexico and UAE.

  • 11 were made in black and white, 12 in both color and black and white versions, and 29 in full color !

Here are the 52 weekly mazes in order (with links to their downloads):

  1. Horseshoe Bend

  2. Monument Valley

  3. The University of Alaska Museum of the North

  4. Holiday Bowl Sign - Sign Maze section

  5. Sit and Spin Laundromat Sign - Sign Maze section

  6. Blue Mustang Sculpture

  7. Alabama Theatre Sign - Sign Maze section

  8. Abraham Lincoln Sculpture

  9. Piet Mondrian tributes

  10. The Alamo Mission

  11. Agora Sign - Sign Maze section

  12. Waterbury Clock Tower

  13. Clayton Theatre

  14. Rockford Tower

  15. The Orange Shop Sign - Sign Maze section

  16. Fox Theatre Sign - Sign Maze section

  17. Tough Guy Lanes Sign - Sign Maze section

  18. Miles the Monster Monument

  19. Fresno Van Ness Avenue Sign

  20. Cabana Inn Sign - Sign Maze section

  21. Dolles Salt Water Taffy Sign - Sign Maze section

  22. Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch

  23. Wrigley Field Sign

  24. Emo's Dairy Sign - Sign Maze section

  25. National Center For Civil and Human Rights

  26. Mesa Verde National Park Cliff Dwellings

  27. Lincoln Memorial

  28. Playhouse Square Sign - Sign Maze section

  29. Thread City Sculpture

  30. Grandview Hotel Sign - Sign Maze section

  31. Ponce De Leon Lighthouse

  32. The Louvre

  33. First Baptist Sign - Sign Maze section

  34. Bok Tower

  35. Rock n Roll HOF

  36. Key West Point Marker

  37. New London Lighthouse

  38. Hoover Dam

  39. Epcot Center

  40. Spillway Lanes Sign - Sign Maze section

  41. Don Carter Lanes Sign - Sign Maze section

  42. Sydney Opera House

  43. Castle Craig

  44. La Catrina

  45. Air Force Cadet Chapel

  46. Free Stamp Sculpture

  47. Nampa Rollerdome Sign - Sign Maze section

  48. Burj Al Arab

  49. Chichen Itza Pyramid

  50. Welcome to Las Vegas Sign - Sign Maze section

  51. Christmas Tree

  52. Large Snowflake