Mazes online and not

The art and craft of maze-making has found a very good home online. A home that has nurtured some remarkable innovations in mazery.

A good sampling of online interactive mazes can be found on Clickmazes, wherewithin I found, for example, the somewhat maddening Hexaroll turning maze.

Then there's friend and game designer Robert Abbot's Logic Mazes site, with his semi-demonic Alice Mazes. And, from Scott Kim, another of my friend/game puzzle designer friends, this page he calls Shufflebrain, where I found his ingenious and painfully challenging Double Slide sliding-block puzzle.

Setting aside the many wonders of online mazes, the online world also takes us beyond, to your paper-and-pencil kind of mazes, such as those freely and relatively-freely provided by MegaMaze.com.

And then, as you probably already surmised, the virtual world can lead you to mazes that are three-dimensional, and very much in the real world, and very much works of art.

Yup, there's more to mazes than we could've guessed. Amazing how much fun getting lost can be.

For a broader perspective on this whole maze thing, and some links to further perspective-broadening, see if you can find your way to Jo Edkin's Maze Page.