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Heres how you solve. Bring a piece of wood in that
spans 2 or 3 bars. Use it to guide you along one
wall until that wall becomes the exit. Mazes with
an entrance and exit are topologically reducible to
a torus. |
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//Maze Of Perpetual Confinement// |
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Sounds like a spell from Jack Vance's Dying Earth or D&D. |
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What happens when someone takes an industrial blowtorch
&
heavy duty bolt cutter with them? |
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Later edit: //industrial// aka heavy duty for cutting
through bars, seeing as
[xen] seems to have missed the point |
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Good luck with "wall following". You might want to
read this first:
"If the maze is not simply-connected (i.e. if the
start or endpoints are in the center of the
structure surrounded by passage loops, or the
pathways cross over and under each other and
such parts of the solution path are surrounded by
passage loops), this method will not reach the
goal. |
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Another concern is that care should be taken to
begin wall-following at the entrance to the maze.
If the maze is not simply-connected and one begins
wall-following at an arbitrary point inside the
maze, one could find themselves trapped along a
separate wall that loops around on itself and
containing no entrances or exits. |
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//Good luck with "wall following"// |
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Why bother when you can just burn through the walls made
of
bars in a
straight line, with those items you'd make your own path
through it with
entrances & exits wherever you want. |
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//You might want to read this first// |
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I did, you might want to engage brain & use it before
responding once in a while. |
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//traditional ball of string or trail of breadcrumbs// |
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Marking your path with bars cut in two work for you? |
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Did I mention the guards who shoot people in the
maze? Best to wait until the first shot is fired to
create the greatest amount of terror. |
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So this guy walks into a bar... |
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'Boing' says the bar to him. |
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I could electrify the bars
. |
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Hang on - is this a maze or a labyrinth? (link) |
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Defo a maze and no mention of labyrinth. |
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You didnt spell out whether the maze was simply-
connected or not. |
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Wouldn't that result in both people turning around
much of the time? |
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I was in a Maize once. I felt corn-ered. |
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In the past, "confinement" sometimes referred to the
seclusion of women around the time of childbirth. |
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... not usually in a maze, but some hospitals could almost
fulfill this function. There might be a horror movie to be
made there. |
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