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No, a labarynth is a single twisting route without branches. A maze has branches and thus can have dead-ends. Both must have an entry and exit point (technicall
by cyphar 7y ago
No, a labarynth is a single twisting route without branches. A maze has branches and thus can have dead-ends. Both must have an entry and exit point (technically mazes may have more than one exit and entry, but most don't).
- jedberg 7y ago> a labarynth is a single twisting route without branches. A maze has branches and thus can have dead-ends. I was today years old when I learned this.
- Someone 7y agoThat’s open for debate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth: ”Although early Cretan coins occasionally exhibit branching (multicursal) patterns […] both logic and literary descriptions make it clear that the Minotaur was trapped in a complex branching maze […] In English, the term labyrinth is generally synonymous with maze. As a result of the long history of unicursal representation of the mythological Labyrinth, however, many contemporary scholars and enthusiasts observe a distinction between the two.”