3.06.2006
One Billion Mazes
Exactly One Billion Mazes to Solve "This site contains one billion mazes in high-quality printable PDF format. You may view, print and solve these mazes... and yes, there are exactly one billion mazes!" Actually, according to my count, clicking on any one of the exact billion of these mouse-run-like classic mazes (amazing, really, to think we can navigate through one billion choices so easily) gets you two images - one image of the maze and the other of the maze solved - both in completely printoutable form. So it's like 2 billion mazes, half of which are already solved. If you want to look at it that way.
One Billion. Two billion. Your basic imagination-staggering number. And there it is for you to play with.
Stunning, and yet an intrinsically very silly achievement.
Thanks in4mador.
Thank you for your kind comments!
An interesting thing that I have done with an Algebra II level student is to take them to the site and see if they can find the pattern in the way the mazes are generated.
Some are very easy and some are very hard. Some have boxy outlines and some look like intestines.
Once you know the pattern, you can predict the size and shape of a given maze knowing only it's number.
Have fun!