120 Mazes

This book contains 120 mazes of various levels of difficulty and slightly different types. Some of them have an entrance at the left size of the maze and you need to get to the right side. Some start in the center of the maze (marked by an X) and you need to get to the outside through an exit on the right. Some have only one exit, and some have a decoy exit that does not connect. The decoy exit makes the maze a bit more difficult, because it is not readily apparent which direction you need to go in as you work your way through the maze. For example, if you enter the maze on the left side and the exit is obviously higher than the entrance, you might be inclined to use paths which go upward. If there is also a decoy exit lower than the entrance, it is not as obvious which direction to go after you enter. Of course, even without the decoy exit, going toward the direction of the exit is not always the correct strategy, because the path can turn away from the direction of the exit and then turn back, but the decoy exit does make it a bit harder. The biggest determiner of the difficulty level is the size of the maze. The four sizes of the mazes used in this book are described as small (and therefore easy), medium, large, and extra large. The mazes are grouped in 16 chapters. The chapters have titles like "Medium - Start Left - No Decoy" or "Extra Large - Start Center at X - Decoy" where the first term gives the size, the second tells where you start, and the third tells you whether there is a decoy exit. The most mazes in this book are the medium and large sizes (40 medium and 40 large), since these represent a medium difficulty level. There are 20 small and 20 extra large mazes. Happy travels.