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Kind of an aside to the purpose of the maze, but I noticed their maze has no designated exit. You just have to escape the maze from an interior starting point,
by ianbicking 2y ago
Kind of an aside to the purpose of the maze, but I noticed their maze has no designated exit. You just have to escape the maze from an interior starting point, adding to the challenge because there are many false exits. You can't start from both ends, nor is there a sense that you are getting "closer" to the exit.
I don't think I've seen this maze building technique, even though it seems simple.
- Someone 2y agoYou can turn any such maze into one with a single exit by surrounding it with a small “moat” with a single exit. For large mazes, I don’t think the price you pay for it is too large, as it only adds O(\√#cells) of area to the maze, and I think any good measure for complexity of a maze scales by #cells (if you don’t scale by #cells, you can make a maze harder by glueing multiple ones together, and the trivial maze where there only one straight line will get harder by making it longer)
- tedunangst 2y agoThat doesn't do anything to assist solving, though. Once you're in the moat, it's the same problem.
- bee_rider 2y agoAlthough, it still seems like a slightly different type of maze somehow. You could have many different long paths that go all the way out to your moat. Not that this is an illegitimate type of maze or anything, it is just slightly unusual.