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Imagine a horizontal maze turned on its side. You
enter
at the bottom and begin your journey of advancing along
the corridors, periodically encountering junctions where
ascents and descents must be negotiated using ladders
attached to the walls. Most lead to dead ends, just as
they
do
in a conventional maze.
Vertical Maze requires those entering it to be fit, not
afraid of heights, and not subject to panic attacks.
Extra fiendish version is also turned at a 45 degree angle
so that there are always sloping journeys and nothing is
on a horizontal plane.
Super plus fiendish version has half of the structure extending below ground level.
Human-scale snakes and ladders
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Prior art [8th of 7, Jan 02 2019]
The Zap Gun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zap_Gun
Worth reading [8th of 7, Jan 02 2019]
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You can wear your snake costume when you try it. |
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Well, at least can some of the ladders be inadequately secured, or have missing or greased rungs, or rungs that suddenly fold down under load ? |
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It’s not the same as snakes and ladders as unlike a
maze, snakes and ladders is a single direction
ascent game with no puzzle to solve.
Meanwhile, if it makes you happy there can be
ladders with randomly electrified rungs in the one
you try. |
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No thankyou, we just want something that delivers random, pointless and unexpected suffering to others, while we watch. |
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A bit like The Apprentice, but rather less cruel and demeaning. |
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Isn't Maize usually vertical? |
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I was wondering whether the hedges should be yew or privet, but
then I realised it wouldn't be hedges. But then it wouldn't be
enclosed tunnels either, because then there wouldn't be so much
scope for fear of heights. So I thought of slightly translucent
plastic walls. And the reason I thought of those was those little
puzzle toys with a plastic maze and a ball bearing or several. |
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Thereupon I understood that this maze should not be in a fixed
orientation at all, but should lurch about alarmingly at the whim
of a child, who, by remote control, is trying to solve the puzzle by
rolling some grotesquely hypertrophied ball bearings around the
maze, quite heedless of the humans struggling through it. |
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This might be a metaphor for something and, in any case, would
satisfy [8th]'s requirement. |
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// lurch about alarmingly at the whim of a child, ... quite heedless of the humans struggling through it. // |
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Very like the "game" described in "The Zap Gun" by Philip K. Dick. <link> |
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The maze could be mounted on a balanced verticle wheel, so that as you climb upwards it gradually overbalances. |
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Could that result in injuries to the users ? |
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If you were to have it overbalance, then the exit
would end up near the bottom, surely, which
sounds easier. |
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Make it a cube. You could fit a lot of maze in a 25 by 25 by 25 metre cube. |
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Get away from our shuttlecraft, you can't have it. |
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I spent a week working between a few different
locations in New York that ended up with me feeling
like this. The elevators in some of the buildings
serviced only part of the floorage, so you had to
remember which floors acted as transition points.
Similar in some ways, just without the vertigo -
which itself makes me think of those most scary
scenes in The Poseidon Adventure where ostentatious
ball-roms and corridors, through simple rotation,
turn into vertiginous halls of death. |
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And on a different occasion I once went down a
coal-mine in Belgium that featured the 45° thing
quite spectacularly. |
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Nice, a clear intelligent extrapolation of the gym rope. |
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Would there be an "I give up, get me the hell out of this
damn thing" escape device? Perhaps a safety ladder opening
out the back. |
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There is no easy escape, and remember, the exit point could be at ground level with the solution journey requiring a trip up and down repeatedly to the highest corridors. Did I mention the one-way turnstile at the entry point? |
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To be fair to [whatrock], a trebuchet is probably unlikely to qualify as an "easy escape", even if there's a suitably located landing net (which doesn't have to be the case - after all, the ground is perfectly adequate for breaking your fall). |
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Ah, but to the grievously suffering maze-goer, having passed
the brightly-colored escape ladder positioned just inside the
entrance 3 days ago, an evil-looking medieval trebuchet
with a sign pointing to the sling might be just the ticket out,
landing be damned. |
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... which they almost certainly will be. <Snigger/> |
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// evil-looking medieval trebuchet // |
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For maximum effectiveness, the trebuchet should be painted in bright, cheerful primary colours, and be adorned with images of happy clowns, cushions, parachutes, trampolines and pillows. |
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