In related news, I want to include solutions in my 2nd book. Anyone willing to get paid to solve them for me? As much as I love drawing them, I don’t love solving them. 🤷
If this inspires you to do one, that would be awesome. Post on social media & tag me @AiXeLsyD13 on just about everything. (Except PayPal. Whoever has that must be a real asshole because I have been using AiXeLsyD13 since like Angelfire and AOL Instant Messenger.) I am trying out Threads and Blue Sky while Twitter is becoming 𝕏. I gave up on Mastodon and that one other one I forget the name of.
You can also email it to me like this anonymous solver did at world.and.lunar.domination@gmail.com.
☡🚧🚨🚨🚨🚧 SPOILER ALERT!Solution Below: 🚧🚨🚨🚨🚧☡
Reader-submitted solution to a 2012 maze that I inexplicably called “Shift Spiral Spin.”
I did some drawing, scanning with the HP app on the phone, and coloring with paint.NET this year. Please, if you print & solve or them on your phone, PC, or tablet… share the solution! You can share it here in the comments, or tag me on Instagram, Twitter, or whatever social media is popular nowadays. I generally try to grab @AiXeLsyD13 on all of them.
I have them in color, & in black & white.
Have a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Have an Easy Fast for Yom Kippur, Happy Yule, Happy Solstice, Merry Yuletide, Ramadan Mubarak, Blessed Kwanzaa, Cathartic Festivus, or whatever holiday you celebrate!
Enjoy one of my Christmas Playlists to get you in the mood while you’re trying to solve these mazes, or share yours with me! Check out my other mazes if you’re ready for more! You can work on these while dinner is cooking, or tonight while youre trying to get to sleep & waiting for Santa!
Wow it took over an hour. In the end I started blacking out dead end paths to narrow the search down. This meant I found a start at the finish first and then worked toward the start. As you can see I had to black Out huge amounts. Very confusing very hard maze. How the hell did you design this?
I wrote back to Chris, saying…
Hi Chris,
Wow! Thanks for taking the time to try the maze & to send a photo! I haven’t got many responses yet. I hadn’t heard of the blacking-out method until recently.
I don’t really design the mazes, as much as “just draw”. I try to always keep an open path until the end. Sometimes I work form both the start & the finish, connect two paths, and try to close off all the others. Sometimes I have multiple paths.
If you’d like to try this maze for yourself, you can here: Curvilinear Course [Maze] – Try not to look at the solution above first, though.
Solutions have also come rolling in from Eric Yano, to a handful of mazes at once! Are you brave enough to try?
Well, Eric Yano (of local weblog Valley of Steel) stepped up and has completed (or almost completed) 8 of my mazes. He’s got a unique method of solving. He fills in the dead ends, leaving the “good” path open. Some of these don’t show a good path, so either I screwed up in drawing, or Eric got overzealous in filling-in.
Check out this awesome *.pdf with Eric’s notes and the url’s of the mazes attached:
They need some solution love too! I’ve seen some of them being re-pinned on Pinterest. I try to ask those people to also email their solutions to world.and.lunar.domination@gmail.com, but I haven’t received any other attempts yet.
How would you like the solutions presented? Is this link to a pdf good? Is the individual blog post good? Should I post a photo of the solution in the comments of each maze? Should I just post a link o the solution to prevent “ruining” it for anyone else? Is anyone reading these besides Eric?