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A tour puzzle in the form of a complex branching passage through which the solver must find a route.

A maze is a tour puzzle in the form of a complex branching passage through which the solver must find a route. The pathways and walls in a maze are fixed, and puzzles in which the walls and paths can change during the game are usually categorized as tour puzzles. The Cretan labyrinth is the oldest known maze.

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Deusovi Honeypot

Looks like the community has spoken. With a heavy heart (as if), I have trapped @Deusovi behind a never repeating, fractally recursive, infinite, unsolvable labyrinth. To keep him busy, I added a couple of teleports. The green part of the maze…
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A Bomber Maze™™™

To help you solve the maze, you are given 3 bombs. A bomb can be used to destroy one wall in the maze. Your goal is to get from the start to the finish, with the help of your bombs. There is only one correct solution, so good luck!
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Alice and the Fractal Hedge Maze

This is an entry to the 12th fortnightly challenge. Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Alice: I don't much care where... Cheshire Cat: Then…
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A maze puzzle for the day

Here's a little maze puzzle I originally built a couple of years ago, that seems apropos to reprise now: Can you make it from the A in the top left of this grid to the Z in the bottom right, always going either up one letter (for instance, A to B or…
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A blue, white and red maze

First, let's give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar: this maze comes from the mind of Dave Phillips, a brilliant maze designer 1. So, for the maze. It is a fairly easy one:             Your goal is to exit by the blue tile on top left, after having…
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A torus maze™™™™™

Since this is a torus maze, the left side of the maze connects to the right side and the top of the maze connects to the bottom. Corresponding openings in the walls of the maze have been labeled for your convenience. Your goal is to get from the…
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Can Isaac get an even tan?

Isaac is in need of money to buy himself a car so he can go to the beach with his friends, so he's decided to start a lawn mowing business. When mowing lawns, he needs to make sure he gets an even tan so when he ends up going to the beach he looks…
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Is progress possible in an infinite maze?

Inspired by Maze Solving Robot and the related one on code golf SE Rules You start in a cell in an orthogonal grid of infinite size. Each cell has four edges, and hence, a maximum of four ways to enter or exit it. Every edge in the grid is either…
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The Railway Maze

This puzzle is originally created by by Roger Penrose. The goal is to guide the train all the way to the station via the railways, without ever reversing or taking sharp turns. The train can only travel forwards. For instance, at the first crossing,…
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A mouse and a maze on a n x n grid

I went back in an old Flash game and was intrigued by this problem. Rules There is an $n\times n$ grid and a mouse entering on the entrance cell and exiting on the exit cell. The entrance cell and the exit cell is found outside on the grid, on the…
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What a Freeway Interchange

There are six stalled cars on this complicated freeway interchange. What is the maximum number of cars you can avoid, while entering and exiting the freeway where indicated by arrows? Note: No sharp turns allowed! Source: 1993 B. & P. Publishing…
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Right-Turn-Only Maze

I was at a children's park last weekend and wandered upon a tile maze that allows right turns only. The path is white. The walls are gray. S = start and F = finish. Can you figure it out?
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4 page maze ft. portals!

I found a large 4-page maze that I made a while back. Made entirely with pen and grid paper. Here's a digitally scanned and cleaned-up version Your goal is to find a path from the start to the finish, picking up the key along the way.
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I'm hidden in the maze

I am hidden in the shortest route through this maze. Twice, if you know what you're looking for. More clues to follow (although I'm sure you're unlikely to need them)...
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How can this three dimensional ball maze be solved?

You have to manually move the ball around; holes join sides and front-and-back, and as far I can tell you get blocked in the back. [![Side Left side joins Right of Start][7]][7] My son is trying solve it, and I want to make sure it can be…
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