I don’t have a theme. I don’t generally draw cartoons or pictures with my mazes. Can just plain mazes be a thing, like adult coloring books? There are a ton of neat maze creators that I follow on Instagram or Twitter or wherever. Mine are probably the most boring. Someone used to solve them by blacking in everything from the dead ends back to an open end, leaving only the “good” path open. That seems like it would be relaxing.
Another maze. Is this one boring? Send me a solution.
I did some more.
Hit the links below the embedded Instagram post if you’re interested in downloading them to try your hand at completing them.
What are you waiting for?
Repost on social media and tag me @AiXeLsyD13, or email it to world.and.lunar.domination@gmail.com!
I dunno why I group them in 7’s.
Yeah. I did 7 more. They’re on Instagram.
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Hit me up with solutions in the comments, via email, or via social media.
I have been posting them to Instagram, just not here much. I have a few I have drawn but haven’t shared. I may share them here. Is anyone interested in them? Should I save them for a publisher or Etsy shop? I need to get with CI3 and make some mugs!
Yeah, that one is on my guitar case. It would be killer if someone could complete that one… just not on the actual case. Ha ha.
Thanksgiving is my favorite. Maybe after Halloween.
I am so proud of my little artist!
You know you wanna print one and try it, or use an app on your phone/tablet to draw right on it. Then you wanna tag me in social media with the solution or leave it here in the comments.
Got anywww.instagram.com advice? I still feel like I should do something with all these things.
The Wacom Bamboo pen is really a fun toy. I need to learn to use it better, and find a program to latch on to.
947 views on one maze in one day?
Looking at my WordPress stats, I found a really weird day on Feb. 27th, apparently Yahoo! Image Search was inundated with the word “maze” that day. Check out all these crazy hits, click on the image to the left for the full size.
Weird.
It’s cool that one of my mazes shows up on the first page when you do a Yahoo image search for “maze”. (Google too, just lower down the page.)
Did I miss national maze day or something?
Was there a maze in the news?
I really need to work on putting together a book, or trying to sell some prints online somehow. It would be nice to do something productive with them.
1053 hits in one day?
I recently received an email containing a solution to one of my mazes, along with a what I’ll interpret as a fan-letter and some constructive criticism. Check out the incredibly detailed solution & the message below:
✏ Can you do it? (Another Maze) SOLUTION
And the accompanying email:
From: Rick Jaspers
Date: Mon, Jun 25, 2012
Subject:
To: world.and.lunar.domination@gmail.comHi, I saw a post in which you asked people to solve a maze, and send the solution to you, but I just can’t seem to find the post now. Oh well, here is my solution.
It was a great maze! Your style of utilizing tight squiggly paths and many dead ends made it a real challenge to solve. I enjoyed the complexity and design of this wonderful maze.
I did find a couple issues that I should bring to your attention. I hesitate to say anything because I fear it could be taken in the wrong spirit. But I assure you that even though we don’t know each other, I wish you every success with your mazes. The things I found are very minor, and things I have done many times myself, and not caught until much later. Furthermore none of these issues keep this from being a very good maze.
With that said, this is what I found (refer to the attachment for a visual):
The areas marked in red are closed off from the rest of the maze so the solver is not able to get into them from the starting line. This is an easy fix, open up an end in each of these areas, and you have created additional dead end to frustrate the solver.
The second thing is the three loops marked with green dotted lines. Some maze designers use loops, others do not. Personally, I don’t like using loops except in certain specialized mazes. As the designer, you get to chose the rules you apply to your designs. Since you only have a small amount of loops, I am thinking that they were not intentional. Again, if you did not mean to include loops, they are easy to fix. Closing off one end makes yet more dead ends. Having loops along the solution route adds a further complication of having alternate paths which lead to the end, and these other ways to get to the finish must be shown when you provide solutions.
If you can bare one more suggestion, here it is. As you make the last turn for the finish line, the trail forks off into three paths. When solvers are so close to the finish, they can see which path is the right one. I would recommend closing off the two false paths at this point, and finding another place to open them up, so you create two more dead ends right at the finish.
These are all minor things, but I hope they help. I don’t see myself as an expert maze designer. Many of my mazes are poorly designed. I lack a mathematical sense, which can be very helpful in designing mazes. Also I have a really horrible sense of direction, seriously. I am constantly getting lost when I go places. But I enjoy making mazes, so I do it.
I sincerely hope you can find a way for more people to enjoy your fine mazes.
Rick Jaspers
So, I wrote back…
From: Waldo Lunar <world.and.lunar.domination@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jun 26, 2012
Subject: Re:
To: Rick JaspersWow Rick!
Thanks for taking the time to complete the maze & for all the pointers! How did you find me?
I should be able to look through them to find the one that this matches without a problem.
I don’t know if I really “design” mazes, I kind of just draw them. I do appreciate your advice though… it would be easier to complete without the loops, and more challenging without the areas that are closed off.
Do you have any of your mazes up online anywhere?
Would you mind if I posted your email in a blog along with your solution?
Thanks for writing!
-Eric
aixelsyd13.wordpress.com
Permission granted:
From: Rick Jaspers
Date: Wed, Jun 27, 2012
Subject: RE: Maze Solution
To: world.and.lunar.domination@gmail.comHey Eric,
I enjoyed doing your maze, so no problem. Much more challenging than any of mine.
Originally, I found your site when I did a WordPress Topics Search for “Mazes”, and was able to get a hold of you because your e-mail was listed on your About page.
I do not have any mazes on-line. I no longer own the rights to the 33 in the published book. All of the other mazes I have done are part of unpublished or unfinished books. I guess I don’t like the idea of putting mazes on-line that I am trying to get into print.
You are welcome to do whatever you wish with the solution I made, and if you want to include my e-mail, that is fine also.
Rick
That’s pretty cool! Rick had to take some serious time solving the maze & doing his photo-editing work in the solution. This encourages me that there are more people out there who dig mazes, & we all may benefit from me getting a book published. Maybe I can put more though into my mazes, instead of just doodling. I certainly could use more money to buy goofy guitars.
I tweeted this…
https://twitter.com/#!/AiXeLsyD13/status/195873642356281344
They tweeted this…
https://twitter.com/#!/pizzahut/status/195944183775756289
(They have since deleted it.)
I tweeted this…
https://twitter.com/#!/AiXeLsyD13/status/195996342273839106
Of course, this was all in reference to my apparently infamous maze. We’ll see if we get a reply. I’m guessing not, since they deleted their tweet.
Wow. Do they have an internal policy regarding not answering me? Holy cow, that is so funny. Luckily I have a screenshot show that the tweet did indeed exist.
Fantastic.
I caught your tweet, Pizza Hut! Ha ha. You responded to me. I win.
I almost forgot, they never responded to this either:
Do you think they "get" that it makes me poop?
If I published a book of my mazes, would you buy it? Know anyone who would? Think there’s a market for it? I’ve recently been talking to another dude online that drew mazes in the past that are mazes similar to mine (in addition to some other very cool stuff), and who’s going for it through Amazon. The rationale is even if he only sells one or two a month, it’s still income he didn’t have. There’s always Kickstarter or Lulu, too.
I know there are some other maze creators out there… and there are maze books. Is it a big genre? Are people willing to pay for that kind of stuff any more?
I’d love it if someone could make an app where you can complete one of my mazes with your finger or a stylus on an Android, iPhone, tablet PC, or E-reader. I don’t know to what end… but it would be fun. Any interested developers out there?
I’d have to scan, sort, arrange, and of course draw some more… maybe even figure out the solutions… but I think I could get it all put together.
What do you think?
![Peculiarly Perplexing Path [Maze]](https://aixelsyd13.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/peculiarly-perplexing-path-maze.png "Peculiarly Perplexing Path [Maze]")
Peculiarly Perplexing Path
