My Most Creative Maze Solution

As a maker and designer of mazes I appreciate a good solution to a maze. My favorite mazes are all fun to solve and nice to look at. I think I have done both with this maze of the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City, Mexico. I featured the maze on this website as Maze of the week #53. It has it’s own section on the website, and I have written about the maze before, so why the extra attention ?

Well I am a fan of hidden message mazes. A maze that looks normal, but the solution has a message for the solver. Here are 2 blog posts where I show you how to make your own (2 different types):

How to Make A Hidden Message Maze

How to Make a Hidden Message Trail Maze

And of course I made some templates (4 different) to help you make “mazed” letters if you are interested in creating your own mazes:

Hidden Message Maze Letter Design templates

Or maybe you aren’t interested in making mazes and just want to challenge yourself by glancing at a maze and trying to figure out the message hidden inside. I did this in 4 parts:

Hidden Message Challenge - Part 1

Hidden Message Challenge - Part 2

Hidden Message Challenge - Part 3

Y tambien en Espanol !

Desafío Laberinto de mensajes ocultos

And if you did not click through to the challenges here is one of them for fun. What does this hidden message maze say ?

How did you do ? Either way, that is an example of a hidden message maze.

By now you may have forgotten what brought about that sidebar. Well the question about the Museo Soumaya - “why the extra attention ?”. Well, because I gave it a creative solution and that solution is even more hidden than a typical maze I make. I dare say it is completely hidden ! Let’s look at the maze. Do you see the answer ?

Museo Soumaya Maze

To download the maze and solve it yourself click here.

Or just watch the solution on my YouTube channel below. When do you figure out the surprise ?

If you enjoyed that video. I show the making and solving of my mazes on my new channel. I release a new maze every Monday and most (but not all) have each of the 2 videos.

Navigating the Labyrinth: A Complete Guide to Maze Movies

I have written extensively on movies that contain mazes and labyrinths, currently 100+ total movies, but this number is sure to grow. You can peruse every maze movie I have reviewed on my maze movie page. I have given you a post about what I believe are the best maze movies and the worst maze movies with special consideration to bad horror movies and maze movies for kids. I have researched and found the best maze movie posters.

Want to know which of these movies are the best ?

The 10 best maze movie posters ?

The 5 best maze movies for kids ?

The 10 best maze horror movies ?

The 5 worst maze movies to avoid ?

So why do I need another post about maze and labyrinth movies? Well I want to sort and summarize the movies into types of movies. You may like a particular type of movie - horror, crime, mystery, action and so this will help you find your lane. And what is the maze scene that gets the movie on the list to begin with ?

So I made a Google Sheet to sort and classify the movies. The columns allow you to sort and filter for the following data points: Name of movie, year released, maze scene, Rating, Movie Type, Sub-genre, Language, Movie length, IMDB rating, Worldwide box office, and notable stars in the movie.

Let’s say you want to know what movies are good for kids, you can sort by rating and here is what you find:

Maze Movies Rated G

Alice in Wonderland (1951 - G)

Muppets from Space (1999 - G)

Maze Movies Rated PG or TV - PG, or approved

Flowers for Algernon (2000 - TV-PG)

How to Train your Dragon (2010 - PG)

Labyrinth (1986 - PG)

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974 - PG)

Mazes and Monsters (1982 - PG)

Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017 - PG)

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022 - PG)

Tales from the Crypt (1972 - PG)

Time Bandits (1981 - PG)

The Maze (1955 - approved)

Another example would be what are the mostly highly rated maze movies ?

Inception - 8.8

The Shining - 8.4

Pan’s Labyrinth - 8.2

How to Train Your Dragon - 8.1

Prisoners - 8.1

That is a wonderful list of movies to watch ! Sort however you want. As I watch new maze movies the list will grow !

Here is the link to the sheet, which I will also add to the movie page.

Additional posts and sections you may like:

The 10 best maze themed horror movies

The 10 best maze movie posters

5 Absolutely terrible maze movies to never ever watch ever. really. don’t watch them

Theatre of Blood (1973) Movie Review

Theatre of Blood (1973) IMDB AMZN

Comedy horror films are very hit and miss for me. Too funny can ruin the horror and not funny enough means there are sections of the film that seem flat. For me this movie missed the mark vs. the critical reception. When I researched the movie after the fact I learned about the ‘comedy’ aspect which I never would have guessed after watching the film. As far as mazes go, this is a maze movie only because of a scene where there is prominently displayed maze and labyrinth artwork in the background. This is not the best shot, but it is hard to miss !

Overall, Vincent Price does a great job acting in the movie, but it missed the mark for me.

I give it a 6.1/10.

Additional posts and sections you may like:

The 10 best maze themed horror movies

The 10 best maze movie posters

5 Absolutely terrible maze movies to never ever watch ever. really. don’t watch them

Maze of the Week #64 - Leeds Castle Maze

I have always wanted to do a castle maze and Maze of the week #64 does just that with the Leeds Castle Maze located in Kent, England. It will not be the last castle I maze this year ! While a castle was first built on the site in 857, the look has changed many times of the centuries. In fact there is a YouTube video showing just how it has changed during the years:

Photo: flickr, Angela Hamblen

Leeds Castle

The Maze: Full color, large size.

Leeds Castle Maze

I hope you enjoy the maze. Download is available on the homepage

Coming next week:

A bridge monument