I have been thinking about updating some of the older sections of the website and I am starting with the Animal Maze section. Most of these mazes were from 2019 and have not been touched since. Here is how I changed the Animal Maze section of the site to improve it.
Remade some mazes to improve their solvability
I went back I changed many of my mazes of the week earlier this year using new techniques I have learned through the years. I didn’t do anything too advanced on these but did touch the majority of them. Here are 2 examples that illustrate most of my changes:
For this Mule maze I changed the start/goal to words from arrows. This increases the amount of the page the illustration can take up, making it larger and easier to solve:
For this Iguana maze I changed the width of the “cuts” that form the pathway at the start/goal and internally. This makes them easier to see on a small screen. I also increased the size slightly.
Most people would not notice these changes, but I hope this helped improve the section to the future users !
I revised many mazes to be more kid friendly
This is a fancy way to say I made many of the mazes easier. For most it meant redrawing the maze completely, but a few I made minor changes to. This example shows the more extreme version with the Hippo Maze, one is clearly for kids and the other for advanced maze solvers !
I added new animal mazes !
New mazes include an armadillo, jellyfish, urchin, turtle, and zebra. In total there are now 47 mazes on the page from 30, plus a preview of 3 additional comic book style mazes available in that section of the site. Here is a fox, or zorro maze in Spanish as an example:
I created 3 new free Animal Maze Books.
I themed them From A to Z, so not all of the animal mazes are included, but 26, one for each letter are in the books. One version is in full color, while the other version is in black and white, making it a maze/coloring book. I also got requests for more of this version. It has been very popular with my Dinosaur Maze Book if you missed that one !
The third version has 27 mazes and is in Spanish (you can thank ñ for the extra maze). It is available with all the Spanish language books and in the archive of Spanish language mazes. I had to make some new mazes to cover all the letters in Spanish.
Other Animal Mazes you may enjoy which was a maze of the week:
Giraffe Maze, many comic book style mazes also feature animals
