Tag: Maze

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Spiritual Applications from Mazes

Spiritual lessons can be found in many everyday scenarios, as Jesus proved time and again with His parables, teaching lessons in subjects ranging from mustard seeds to dishonest managers, and alternating between showing the similarity between leaven and sun, and between leaven and the kingdom of God.  Mazes are no […]

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Figuring Out Oddball Mazes

Mazes can take many different forms besides the classic type which has been populating my articles, usually looking like this: In fact, mazes of different types continually spring up as maze crafters try to find new ways to confound puzzle solvers.  Many new types of mazes have been invented, changing […]

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Mapping Out the Maze

To the untrained eye, a maze will look like an incoherent jumble of paths.  This is not an accurate way of seeing these puzzles, however; mazes may contain a bonanza of unique, defined sections with different qualities, all of which confuse and misdirect the unwary mind. Last month’s article began […]

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The Mind of a Maze Crafter

Those who make mazes know the inner workings of mazes like the backs of their hands.  It is natural for them, since putting the maze together requires thinking and understanding of the situation but does not come naturally to the solver.  In my own experience, I learned more new secrets […]

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How to Solve Mazes: Part Two

Solving mazes is more than following a few useful tips. But tips are helpful anyway, so here are some more: In general, when a maze crafter puts together a maze, he writes in the walls first, leaving open spaces to travel through.  To go through a maze, then, the solver […]