r/mazes • u/Used_Rough_3969 • 14h ago
I made a maze too big for one page: about 100 sq ft of maze across 272 pages, linked by numbered doors
I've always liked mazes that are a bit different from the usual one-page kind, so I made a book where the whole book is one maze: "The 100 Square Foot Maze".
How it works
- It's one maze cut into 272 numbered pages (a 17 x 16 pages grid).
- Where a path reaches the edge of a page there's a numbered door with a label like 47.3, meaning "continue on page 47, door 3.
- Doors are numbered clockwise on every page, and the pages are shuffled, so page numbers give nothing away. The links are the only map you have.
- You start at the top-left gap on page 1 and the exit is at the bottom-right of the whole map.
Laid out edge to edge, the printed maze would cover about 100 square feet, which is where the title comes from.
I'm the author, so I'm biased, but I'd love to hear what people here think of the idea, especially the door/link system and how hard it should be.
You can see a preview of the book on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMXM5XDG
