mazes
Puzzles with deadends
Mazes are intricate networks of paths designed to confuse or challenge those who navigate them.
A hedge maze offers physical wandering through tall shrubs, while a printed maze tests your ability to trace a route from start to finish.
The word extends to any bewildering complex of passages or procedures: The tax code is a maze of regulations.
To maze someone, though rare, is to bewilder or perplex them.
Bull-man of Greek myth
- DaedalusLegendary craftsman and inventor
- TheseusAthenian hero, beast-slayer
- AriadneMythical thread-giver
- threadFiber for stitching
Crete · mythology · labyrinthine · warren · catacombs · twists · turns · passages
Way to leave
- freedomAbsence of constraint
- trappedUnable to escape
- lostUnable to navigate
- dead-endPassage without exit
elude · evade · navigate · survival · breakthrough · way-out · disentangle · extricate
Interconnected system
- webInterwoven filament structure
- tangleTwisted mass of strands
- convolutedExcessively complex or twisted
- intricateElaborately detailed, many parts
elaborate · winding · serpentine · meandering · sinuous · twisted · branching · interconnected
Traveling through unknown regions
- questSeeking journey for something
- journeyTravel from place to place
- discoveryAct of finding something
- unchartedNot yet documented
mysterious · hidden · secrets · treasure · dungeon · video-game · RPG · Pac-Man
Challenging mental puzzle
- solverOne who finds solutions
- solutionAnswer or liquid mixture
- logicScience of valid reasoning
- problem-solvingAddressing challenges methodically
navigation · pen-and-paper · riddle · challenge · clues · strategy · tracing · backtracking
Minotaur
Bull-man of Greek myth
- DaedalusLegendary craftsman and inventor
- TheseusAthenian hero, beast-slayer
- AriadneMythical thread-giver
thread · Crete · mythology · labyrinthine · warren · catacombs · twists · turns · passages · corridors
exit
Way to leave
dead-end · elude · evade · navigate · survival · breakthrough · way-out · disentangle · extricate · disorientation
network
Interconnected system
- webInterwoven filament structure
- tangleTwisted mass of strands
- convolutedExcessively complex or twisted
intricate · elaborate · winding · serpentine · meandering · sinuous · twisted · branching · interconnected · passages
exploration
Traveling through unknown regions
- questSeeking journey for something
- journeyTravel from place to place
- discoveryAct of finding something
uncharted · mysterious · hidden · secrets · treasure · dungeon · video-game · RPG · Pac-Man · arcade
brain-teaser
Challenging mental puzzle
problem-solving · navigation · pen-and-paper · riddle · challenge · clues · strategy · tracing · backtracking · trial-and-error
- problem-solvingproblem solving, puzzles, riddles, logic, solutions
- puzzle gamessudoku, matching, jigsaw puzzle, tetris, tiles
- activity bookscoloring books, word searches, crosswords, connect the dots, sticker books
- paper gameshangman, tic-tac-toe, dots and boxes, battleship, boxes
- puzzlerspuzzle master, brainteasers, brain-teasers, conundrums, enigmas
- mind-bendersoptical illusions, puzzles, paradoxes, brain teasers, riddles
mazesguided tours
Trips with an expert leader
GPS routes · open fields · roadmaps · thoroughfares · boulevards
- 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, maze, amaze, amazed, amazement, amazingly, amazements, mazelike