Vintage Sign Maze - Found and Posted

I make mazes just about every day. I set out with a rough plan and then sometimes change directions before I publish things. A few years ago I made a lot of sign mazes. I like the way vintage signs look. They are colorful and you can find some cool shapes. Unfortunately, most of these mazes are not very popular on the site. The best sign mazes are of the Sit & Spin Laundromat and one that is very popular on Pinterest, the Chicago Theatre Sign.

Today, I bring you a sign I made 2 years ago that never made it into the weekly maze schedule, the fictional Minotaur Motel Sign Maze, based off of a sign I found on the web. It was not quite good enough to publish and I lost it in my many folders of mazes. Well, I found it recently and thought I might as well publish it. I made a few minor changes to improve it - starryai was used to make a roadside hotel background and I changed the color of the START /GOAL so it could be read more easily.

Also, I have a YouTube channel that shows me making mazes that is not very popular, so I thought I would do a version here showing the process of the initial maze being made in 15 steps.

And now, the final maze with the changes ! The roadside motel looks properly dingy.

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What I've Learned Making Mazes

I Changed the Price of my Kindle Maze Book

If you have a maze lover in your life I suggest checking out my Arrow Maze Book available on Kindle. It is one of the few maze books that comes in the Kindle format. That is because arrow mazes are solved using your eyes/finger rather than a writing utensil. This version is also different than the printed version in terms of the pagination for the maze solutions. The Kindle version is Puzzle #1, Solution #1, Puzzle #2, Solution #2, etc. while the printed is 100 puzzles, then 100 solutions condensed onto answer pages. The Kindle version solutions are also all full sized !

I will be launching new books shortly (from the end of July and throughout August - you’ll see them pop of for pre-order soon), and thought this would be a good time to adjust the price down, from $4.95 to $2.99 a 39.6% discount. Wouldn’t it be nice if everything we bought went down in price almost 40% ! This is the lowest price Amazon allows me to price the book at based on the size of the file. (Other editions in other languages are also being adjusted down similarly).

Here is the cover of the book. Let’s check out some maze examples below. Note that this book does have a free sample download available to try before you buy ! That button is located right below “Buy for Others”.

Wishing you Happy Mazing ! Did you notice this book is Volume 1 ? Foreshadowing ?

Maze Comic Book Cover #82 - Knight Fever

Issue #82 in my comic book cover series is called Knight Fever and features the maze of a knight in his armor. I went with a simple background to match the simple kids level maze.

My comic book cover mazes can be found in 2 places:

Comic Book Cover Mazes - Year 1 (Issues #1-53)

Comic Book Cover Mazes - Year 2

To receive a book of my first year of comic book book mazes (Volume 1 with mazes #1-53) you can sign up for my book alerts - any time I launch a free maze book, or paid book (on Amazon), I will send you a note about the new book launch.

Maze of the Week #186 - Avalon Boardwalk Maze - Catalina Island

Another maze I made for someone. This maze of the Avalon Boardwalk on Catalina Island in California was fun to make. It becomes Maze of the Week #186. The landscape breaks into 3 sections: The water, the boardwalk and the hills. For the water I used wavy walls to simulate waves, while the high palm trees in the center of the picture created barriers I need to work around when creating the maze. The buildings were difficult from a maze perspective. As a solver the water and the hills are where the main maze portions live. The style is different than I normally make.

I did the maze in black and white, but then added color to see how it would come out. Either works. The color version does not meaningfully improve the maze. I think you might be able to do better by using the black and white version as a coloring page. I did make some minor changes to it to widen some pathways that may be helpful. Here are both versions:

Downloads of the color version are available on the homepage.