maze
Network of passages
A maze is a complex network of paths designed to confuse and challenge—you enter and try to find your way out or through.
Mazes appear in gardens, puzzle books, and amusement parks.
The word extends to anything confusingly intricate: a maze of regulations, lost in a maze of corridors.
To be amazed originally meant to be lost in bewilderment.
Bull-man of Greek myth
- DaedalusLegendary craftsman and inventor
- AriadneMythical thread-giver
- TheseusAthenian hero, beast-slayer
- threadFiber for stitching
labyrinthine · Cretan · mythology · classical · ancient · twists · turns · dead-end
Boundary of planted shrubs
- topiaryShaped shrub sculpture
- parterrePatterned ornamental garden beds
- pathRoute for traveling
- boxwoodDense-grained ornamental shrub
ornamental · estate · stately · English · formal · privet · yew · shrubbery
Mental disorientation or bewilderment
- complexityState of being complicated
- bewildermentState of being baffled
- bureaucracyRigid administrative system
- lostUnable to navigate
navigate · trapped · overwhelming · disorientation · entanglement · quagmire · convoluted · tangled
One who finds solutions
- solutionAnswer or liquid mixture
- entrancePoint of access
- exitWay to leave
- logicScience of valid reasoning
paper · pencil · activity · children · book · brainteaser · pathway · tracing
Facility for scientific investigation
- experimentSystematic investigation procedure
- psychologyStudy of mind, behavior
- cognitionMental knowledge acquisition
- learningGaining knowledge gradually
reward · cheese · rodent · behavior · research · memory · stimulus · conditioning
Minotaur
Bull-man of Greek myth
- DaedalusLegendary craftsman and inventor
- AriadneMythical thread-giver
- TheseusAthenian hero, beast-slayer
thread · labyrinthine · Cretan · mythology · classical · ancient · twists · turns · dead-end · passage
hedge
Boundary of planted shrubs
boxwood · ornamental · estate · stately · English · formal · privet · yew · shrubbery · walkway
confusion
Mental disorientation or bewilderment
- complexityState of being complicated
- bewildermentState of being baffled
- bureaucracyRigid administrative system
lost · navigate · trapped · overwhelming · disorientation · entanglement · quagmire · convoluted · tangled · byzantine
solver
One who finds solutions
logic · paper · pencil · activity · children · book · brainteaser · pathway · tracing · dead-end
laboratory
Facility for scientific investigation
- experimentSystematic investigation procedure
- psychologyStudy of mind, behavior
- cognitionMental knowledge acquisition
learning · reward · cheese · rodent · behavior · research · memory · stimulus · conditioning · trial
field
Area of specialty
hayride · pumpkin · seasonal · attraction · farm · stalk · acre · rural · festive · Halloween
- puzzlespuzzles, sudoku, jigsaw puzzle, puzzle cube, crossword
- gameplaypower-up, level cap, save point, game over, tutorial level
- brain gamesbrainteasers, brain teasers, logic puzzles, puzzles, crossword puzzles
- brain teasersriddle, brain teaser, logic puzzles, puzzle, brainteasers
- dreamscapesfloating islands, impossible stairs, melting clocks, flying dreams, falling sensation
- dungeondungeon, oubliette, cell bars, torture chamber, chains
mazestraight line
Undeviated continuous path
straight path · direct route · simplicity · open space · clear path
mazeclarity
State of being understandable
certainty · beaten path · solution · understanding · enlightenment
mazesolution
Answer or liquid mixture
disentanglement · resolution · explication · answer · explanation
- corn mazesNavigable paths cut through fields
- hedge mazeNavigable shrub corridor network
- haunted mazeAttraction with scares, turns
- mirror mazeReflective glass labyrinth
- The Maze RunnerDystopian survival story
- maze gameNavigate twisting paths activity
amazing, amaze, amazed, amazement, amazingly, mazes, mazy, mazelike, unamazed