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You can make a maze with only one path (other than paths that double back on themselves), but has three pieces: https://i.imgur.io/R4j6TH3_d.png https://i.imgur
by pxeger1 4y ago
You can make a maze with only one path (other than paths that double back on themselves), but has three pieces: https://i.imgur.io/R4j6TH3_d.png https://i.imgur.io/R4j6TH3_d.png
I think this is basically a flaw in the intuitive definition (or maybe only my intuitive definition) of "doubling back".
- pwagland 4y agoExcept that this maze clearly has at least two solutions. Straight through the corridor, or via the loop. And that's assuming you don't wander around the loops n times.
- kolinko 4y agoThree solutions if you want to be nitpicky. You can go around the clockwise, and counter-clockwise :)
- redblacktree 4y agoInfinite solutions. You can take as many loops as you like before continuing to the exit.
- pxeger1 4y agoBut, to me, that requires doubling back on yourself (going through the little passageway twice). This is what I meant by my definition of going back on yourself being wrong
- Terretta 4y agoNot if your path trace kills you like the lightcycle trails in Tron.
- patates 4y agoThat maze has 3 solutions though. If there is only one solution, without reversing, it has to be 2 pieces.
- xmcqdpt2 4y agoIn your case there are technically two paths through the maze (straight through and going through the loop).