Maze

:For the R&B/soul music band, see Maze (band).

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R&B - Soul music - Maze (band)

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A maze is a tour puzzle in the form of a complex branching passage through which the solver must find a route. This is different from a labyrinth, which has an unambiguous through-route and is not designed to be difficult to navigate.

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Tour puzzle - Labyrinth

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The pathways and walls in a maze or labyrinth are fixed.

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Maze-type puzzles where the given walls and paths may change during the game are covered under the main puzzle category of tour puzzles.

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One type of maze consists of a set of rooms linked by doors (so a passageway is just another room in this definition). You enter at one spot, and exit at another, or the idea may be to reach a certain spot in the maze.

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Mazes have been built with walls and rooms, with hedges, turf, or crops such as corn or, indeed, maize, or with paving stones of contrasting colors or designs.

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Hedge - Turf - Corn - Maize

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Mazes can also be drawn on paper to be followed by a pencil.

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Paper - Pencil

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One of the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges featured a book that was a literary maze.

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Various maze generation algorithms exist for building mazes, either by hand or by computer.

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Maze generation algorithm - Computer

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