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  2. Maze: Solve the World's Most Challenging Puzzle - Wikipedia

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    Part of the puzzle involves reaching the center of the house, Room #45 (page 45 in the book), and back to Room #1 in only sixteen steps. Some rooms lead to circuitous loops; others lead nowhere. This gives the puzzle the feel of a maze or labyrinth. The book was adapted as the computer game Riddle of the Maze in 1994 by Interplay. This version ...

  3. List of puzzle topics - Wikipedia

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    Ball-in-a-maze puzzle; Brain teaser; Chess puzzle. Chess problem; Computer puzzle game; Cross Sums; Crossword puzzle; Cryptic crossword; Cryptogram; Maze. Back from the klondike; Ball-in-a-maze puzzle; Mechanical puzzle. Ball-in-a-maze puzzle; Burr puzzle; Word puzzle. Acrostic; Daughter in the box; Disentanglement puzzle; Edge-matching puzzle ...

  4. Maze-solving algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Robot in a wooden maze. A maze-solving algorithm is an automated method for solving a maze.The random mouse, wall follower, Pledge, and Trémaux's algorithms are designed to be used inside the maze by a traveler with no prior knowledge of the maze, whereas the dead-end filling and shortest path algorithms are designed to be used by a person or computer program that can see the whole maze at once.

  5. Maze (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... A maze is a type of puzzle that consists of a complex branching passage through which the ...

  6. Theseus and the Minotaur - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] In this maze, the player acts as Theseus, the king of Athens who is attempting to escape the Labyrinth. The main difference between this and the standard type of labyrinth, beyond the fact that it is set on a grid , is the fact that the maze is not empty, but also contains a Minotaur who hunts the player down, taking two steps for every ...

  7. Ariadne's thread (logic) - Wikipedia

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    Ariadne's thread, named for the legend of Ariadne, is solving a problem which has multiple apparent ways to proceed—such as a physical maze, a logic puzzle, or an ethical dilemma—through an exhaustive application of logic to all available routes. It is the particular method used that is able to follow completely through to trace steps or ...

  8. Adrian Fisher (maze designer) - Wikipedia

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    He designed the world's first cornfield maize maze in 1993 and over 400 since, and has set 7 Guinness World Records. He has created water mazes, most notably the award-winning Beatles Maze (with Randoll Coate and Graham Burgess), and the Jersey Water Maze. He pioneered the genre of Path-in-Grass Mazes, and has created over a dozen around the world.

  9. Logic maze - Wikipedia

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    Logic mazes, sometimes called mazes with rules or multi-state mazes, are logic puzzles with all the aspects of a tour puzzle that fall outside of the scope of a typical maze. These mazes have special rules, sometimes including multiple states of the maze or navigator. A ruleset can be basic (such as "you cannot make left turns") or complex.