Paint Mazes by Pyro

[Pyrotex]

I'd love to see these mazes but i am having problems opening them. When I try to open the file, a box entitled Microsoft word 97 conversion pops up: Unable to load graphics conversion filter.....

Well, it's just a plain old '.bmp' file pasted into a Word document ('.doc').

 

Let's try something. I will attach a word document here, but I will pad the graphic fore and aft with text. Maybe fool MS Word 97. But I am using Word 2000, or thereabouts. If you have Word 97, THAT may be the problem. You can't read docs from updated apps. I'm gonna save the Word doc in "97" accessible format. Well, the option said, "don't use any formats not understood by Word 97". Same thing, I hope.

 

PS: Somebody tell me if this opens with Word 97!!!

[Pyrotex]

Seriously! These are incredible! I guess I can kiss that AP European History homework goodbye... I have something else to do.

Over the years, I have given copies of these mazes to friends who had children in the range of 10 to 15 years.

 

Amazingly, nearly all the kids reported solving all the puzzles in from 5 to 15 minutes each!!! :lol:

And then they begged for more.

 

Pyro

[Pyrotex]

Okay, frenz an nayberz,

 

for my final trick, I am going to post a Letter maze that is also a Torus Klein Bottle. Make that, "Wrap-around"--easier to remember and makes more sense. So, it's a Letter Wrap-around maze.

 

AND... :) I am posting the "solution" version so you can see what one of my mazes looks like before I remove all the solution information. No Peeking! You have to try the maze first before going for the solution. I'll be watching the access counts, so you better be careful. :cool:

 

The solution maze ends in the letter "s". You might want to look at it just as a work of art. Hmmmmm.... Is Orbi around???? :)

[ughaibu]

I reckon it can be done with one transfer via B(?) (I'm fairly drunk and am doing it by eye)

[Pyrotex]

I reckon it can be done with one transfer via B(?) (I'm fairly drunk and am doing it by eye)

Jump via B, go through and ignore C, jump via A.

 

Drunk at this time of the day? Krikers!!

[ughaibu]

It's nearly 3:45am in Japan. I'll have another look at your maze tommorow, great idea and construction.

[pgrmdave]

Wow pyro - these are amazing!

[Pyrotex]

This one is simple, no tricks, perfect for ten-year olds.

But the lines are not straight, giving the maze a vague 3-dimensional wavy-gravy look.

 

As always, there is ONE solution, and the maze is NO easier backwards than it is forwards.

 

Nobody Should Have That Much Power

 

Pyro

[StarTrekOmega]

here's a little something I made with Daedalus 2.2. Hope you like.http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff160/StarTrekOmega/CopyofFractalMazeHell.jpg

I put it on photobucket. hopefully this works.

[Tormod]

Nice! :)

[StarTrekOmega]

If that's too small try this one.http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff160/StarTrekOmega/FractalMazeHell.jpg

[Jay-qu]

What are the rules?

[StarTrekOmega]

It's a fractal maze and the rules can be found at Ed Pegg's Math Games - Multi-state Mazes or if you don't feel like scrolling to the bottom:

 

I'll close with the Small Fractal Maze, by Mark J. P. Wolf. A Fractal maze is fractal because it has identical copies of itself embedded within itself, which can be entered. In the maze below, you must enter them to solve the maze. Begin at the MINUS and make your way to the PLUS. When you enter a smaller copy of the maze, be sure to record the letter name of that copy, as you will have to leave this copy on the way out. You must exit out of each nested copy of the maze that you have entered into, leaving in the reverse order that you entered them in (for example: enter A, enter B, enter C, exit C, exit B, exit A). Think of it as a series of nested boxes. If there is no exit path leaving the nested copy, you have reached a dead end. Color has been added to make the pathways clearer, but it is only decorative.

 

Hopefully this helps. :shrug:

[Jay-qu]

Holy moly.. :rolleyes: that could take a while.. is there possibly a higher resolution version?