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Maze: Solve the World's Most Challenging Puzzle
This is not really a book. This is a building in the shape of a book...a maze. Each numbered page depicts a room in the maze. Tempted? Test your wits against mine. I guarantee that my maze will challenge you to think in ways you've never thought before. But beware. One wrong turn and you may never escape!
Paperback, 48 pages
Published
November 15th 1985
by Owl Books
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Laura
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Recommends it for:
puzzle and riddle fanatics or cryptographers and code breakers
Shelves:
adult
Good grief. This book will be the death of me. I found it years ago, still haven't solved it, and sometimes it feels like the book isn't even real- like I spookily stumbled across the only copy that changes as I am reading it. I have never even seen this book anywhere except for the one store I bought it from... you can probably find it online I'd assume.
The entire book is a maze, each page a different room and you flip through the pages like a Choose Your Own Adventure book (a CYO...more
The entire book is a maze, each page a different room and you flip through the pages like a Choose Your Own Adventure book (a CYO...more
My best friend and I became entangled in this book when we were in middle school. It seriously messed with our poor pubescent brains. We found our way to the end of the maze (somehow), but could not answer the question of who the maze builder was. It drove us to distraction trying to figure it out. We guessed Elvis, and God (whoever that was) and The Devil and I can't even remember who else. For years the book was something half remembered from our fevered adolescent minds, but then i found a co...more
I only spent about two hours with this, but it was a fun two hours. It seems I don't have the drive to obsess over these things like I used to. I don't think I even made it to room 45, though when I went to 45 to backtrack, it took me to rooms I swear I had been in, but apparently I wasn't paying enough attention to realize that I was almost there. The drawings are very interesting. One of my student workers walked up and asked if I was reading an Edward Gorey book, which seems apt. There's...more
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Nate
marked it as limbo
Recommends it for:
Aspirant Theseuses (Thesei?)
Recommended to Nate by:
The Believer
Shelves:
puzzles
A strange picture-book labyrinth with eerily cross-hatch-shadowed rooms leading into other empty rooms leading into still others, like an interactive version of Edward Gorey's The West Wing, perhaps. Not a book of mazes, but a maze that is a book, and seemingly far trickier in all senses than any seeming children's book should be. I'm becoming convinced that the entirety needs to be decoded before the "path" will reveal itself. Found via a reference in the Believer that instantly prick...more
Seth
rated it
Recommends it for:
Anyone who likes pictures, anyone who likes to be lost in another world
Shelves:
masterpieces
It isn't the world's most challenging puzzle.
It isn't a very hard maze.
But even knowing the way to the center and back, I love to travel through this book, wandering from room to room looking at the scenery and enjoying the sense of space, the changing light, and the wry jabs from the narrator.
I never bothered looking for the "hidden puzzle" with the cash prize (puzzle-books with cash prizes were a fad when this came out), but I expect it was a let-down a...more
It isn't a very hard maze.
But even knowing the way to the center and back, I love to travel through this book, wandering from room to room looking at the scenery and enjoying the sense of space, the changing light, and the wry jabs from the narrator.
I never bothered looking for the "hidden puzzle" with the cash prize (puzzle-books with cash prizes were a fad when this came out), but I expect it was a let-down a...more
Neven
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I'm terrible at open-ended puzzles because I never get any sense of whether I'm moving in the right direction. The solution to a good puzzle makes you go, "A-ha! Of course!" After two hours with 'Maze', I never had that feeling. I still made what seemed like arbitrary, any-choice-works decisions.
I spent an entire summer as part of a theater troupe working on this book with my friends!! It was sinister, creepy, and enchanting!!! LOVED IT! Definately worth checking out!
Brilliant! Not a book, but a maze! If you are a gamer/puzzler, this is the book for you! Too difficult for kids.
Mentioned by Reif Larson in an essay for The Late American Novel. A non-linear adventure of sorts.
Hip E.
marked it as to-read
There is a 100% chance that this book is better than "House of Leaves."
Puzzles
Some girl left this at my house after a sleepover and I never gave it back. I was fascinated and tortured by it, though I never figured out the answer and don't think I really "got" what the "other mysteries" were. A few years later, one of the first things I ever did on the internet was look up the answer, because I still couldn't figure it out. I'm a great big cheater.
This was a family present back in the early 90s. Even after all this time, I still remember it. You have to solve riddles and visual clues to get from room to room. I've marked this book as "children" but really all ages in the household enjoyed it. If you like puzzles, this is a good find.
I read this when i was a youngster. It's not really a graphic novel, but "literary recreation," according to the cataloging information. It's pretty sinister and fun. I don't really understand how my mother decided to get it for us but I think it was cool of her.
Lily D. says this is the most engrossing book ever. Sadly, it's out of print! Wahh!
I checked...it's litterally impossible to do!
Andy
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Perhaps the most entrancing book ever.
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