Hidden Message Maze challenge - Part 1

I take pride in my ability to make hidden message mazes. Some of them have well hidden words and some have words that can easily be spotted. How are you at solving mazes with your eyes ? If you think you are good at it, this is the challenge for you. The challenge is very simple in principal - I will show you a hidden message maze, and when you are ready with your guess scroll down for the answer to see if you got it right. This challenge has a total of 10 mazes, each with the answer after it.

It is also Part 1 of a 3 part series (plus a 4th Spanish language version if you want to try that - all links below!) Good Luck !

Let’s get started !

HIDDEN MAZE #1

Hmmmm. Do you have any idea what the answer is ?

I added the “It’s a” last minute…”It’s a boy”. A perfect maze to announce the birth of a child.

HIDDEN MAZE #2

“Miss you”. I could Have done a larger dump for “I Miss You” which is also an acceptable answer

HIDDEN MAZE #3

PARTY is the answer. This maze was made to be used as a party invite

HIDDEN MAZE #4

I used larger letters for this one, Thank You !.

HIDDEN MAZE #5

I spaced them out, but here we have It’s a Girl, of course solved in pink !

HIDDEN MAZE #6

I went back to big letters to mix things up a bit. Congrats if you solved this one correctly, I feel like the letters are well hidden !

HIDDEN MAZE #7

Our largest message so far, Happy Birthday !. Obviously I made this to make a greeting card. I think it would be fun to give someone for their birthday.

HIDDEN MAZE #8

A hidden hidden maze. I couldn’t resist making this one.

HIDDEN MAZE #9

I went back to back, this time with hidden “message”. I also tried to fake you out by putting the maze solution at the top of the page. Did I fake you out ?

HIDDEN MAZE #10

Maybe is the final answer. I tried to fake you out again with other words and placement of letters.

How did you do in this hidden message challenge ? 10 of 10 I’m sure !

If you enjoyed it there are a total of 2 more hidden message challenges for you to try:

Hidden Message Maze challenge - Part 2

Hidden Message Maze challenge - Part 3

For a higher degree of difficulty try these mensajes en Español !!!!!

Laberinto De Mensajes Ocultos

And if you are good at spotting things you might also enjoy a collection of my maze mistakes !

Arrow Maze Design Case Study - Part 14 - The Largest Arrow Maze in the World

The final portion of our 14 Part Series - The Largest Arrow Maze in the World (I think).

Here is an overview of what we covered in the 14 part series:

Arrow Maze Construction and Design:

• Part 1 - Start Locations and Options

• Part 2 - Using Creative Shapes

• Part 3 - Intersections

• Part 4 - Using Loops

Arrow Maze Components:

• Part 5 - Regular Arrows

• Part 6 - Double Arrows

• Part 7 - Using the START GOAL

• Part 8 - Return to Start Block

• Part 9 - Using Warp Zones

• Part 10 - Slide Arrows

• Part 11 - All Ways Arrow

• Part 12 - Long Arrow Use

Extreme Arrow Maze examples:

• Part 13 - Kitchen Sink Examples

• Part 14 - The Largest Arrow Maze in the World (I think)

Arrow Maze Design Case Study - Part 14 - The Largest Arrow Maze in the World (I think)

How big is it ?

• Well in terms of if you were going to print it, it is formatted at 31 inches by 61 inches.

• In terms of grids, it is sized at 45 x 90, although there are less than 4,050 grid spaces because of the use of some long arrows !

• You COULD print it, but it is best opened on a device and zoomed in on to solve.

Additional information:

• There are no “filler” grids…all grids in the maze are reachable

• Because of the size of the maze there are 3 checkpoints along the way that will help guide you towards a solve.

• Between the second and third checkpoints there are NO decision arrows, only regular arrows…!

• There are no dead ends

If you attempt this maze, do me a favor, time yourself. Send me a note with your time (or if you give up after a certain amount of time).

Hints and solution coming in future posts….

Arrow Maze Design Case Study - Part 13 Kitchen Sink

I am back to bring you the final 2 sections of my Arrow Maze Case Study. And these two sections are all about giving you some interesting mazes to solve. If you enjoy Arrow Mazes or just challenging mazes these will be posts you enjoy. Today I will give you a few examples of what I call Kitchen Sink Arrow Mazes. A Kitchen Sink Arrow Maze uses a large variety of of different maze components to create a challenging maze.

Here is an overview of what we will be covering in the 14 part series:

Arrow Maze Construction and Design:

• Part 1 - Start Locations and Options

• Part 2 - Using Creative Shapes

• Part 3 - Intersections

• Part 4 - Using Loops

Arrow Maze Components:

• Part 5 - Regular Arrows

• Part 6 - Double Arrows

• Part 7 - Using the START GOAL

• Part 8 - Return to Start Block

• Part 9 - Using Warp Zones

• Part 10 - Slide Arrows

• Part 11 - All Ways Arrow

• Part 12 - Long Arrow Use

Extreme Arrow Maze examples:

• Part 13 - Kitchen Sink Examples

• Part 14 - The Largest Arrow Maze in the World (I think)

Arrow Maze Design Case Study - Part 13 - Kitchen Sink

This post is all about kitchen sink examples. Our first example includes a START GOAL, Double Arrows, and Warps,

Kitchen Sink Maze

Our second kitchen sink example includes Double Arrows, Warps, Return to Starts, and an All Ways Arrow.

Kitchen Sink #3 features Double Arrows, Warps, and Long Arrows.

My final example features Return to Start, All Ways, Double Arrows and a Slide Arrow.

Each of these mazes mixed a few different components to create a kitchen sink maze. You may have noticed that these mazes all include numbers on them…because these all come from an upcoming book. These are all examples of the type of mazes that I include in my books on Amazon.

In the Final portion of this series, Part 14 I will present The Largest Arrow Maze in the World (I think)

Arrow Maze Design Case Study - Part 12 Long Arrow

Part 12 of our Arrow Maze Design Case study concludes our section on maze components. . This will be a short section because it needs very little explanation - the Long Arrow.

Here is an overview of what we will be covering in the 14 part series:

Arrow Maze Construction and Design:

• Part 1 - Start Locations and Options

• Part 2 - Using Creative Shapes

• Part 3 - Intersections

• Part 4 - Using Loops

Arrow Maze Components:

• Part 5 - Regular Arrows

• Part 6 - Double Arrows

• Part 7 - Using the START GOAL

• Part 8 - Return to Start Block

• Part 9 - Using Warp Zones

• Part 10 - Slide Arrows

• Part 11 - All Ways Arrow

• Part 12 - Long Arrow Use

Extreme Arrow Maze examples:

• Part 13 - Kitchen Sink Examples

• Part 14 - The Largest Arrow Maze in the World (I think)

Arrow Maze Design Case Study - Part 12 - Long Arrow Use

The Long Arrow is the name of an infinite number of arrows that are 2 or more blocks long. Instead of having 2 arrows in 2 blocks back to back moving the same direction…why not use 1 long arrow in one large rectangular block ? It makes the design of the grid more important (it is done last instead of first) and adds some visual interest to the maze. Check out this illustration:

Long Arrows

One thing to note is that this can only be used in the standard NSEW directions. 45 degree long arrows do not work. These arrows are also most common on the edges of the maze since once you include them in the center they can only be crossed with a Double Arrow or Warp (or moved around at the end).

Here is an example from my upcoming book that includes many long arrows.

And now we begin our final 2 posts with some fun an extreme examples !!! Part 13 is what I call the Kitchen Sink… ! But you will be to wait for the last two posts so we can take some time to review the year and also look ahead to 2022 !