Viennese Mazes: What They Are, and How to Make One

[bbotond]

http://zulko.github.io/blog/2014/04/27/viennese-mazes-what-they-are/

[jamis]

I love the idea of constrained mazes like this. Another related idea is that of "plank puzzles" (http://www.clickmazes.com/planks/ixplanks.htm), which constrain available moves based on which planks you currently have access to.

[RBerenguel]

Sounds very similar to logic mazes (classic example for me is Theseus and the Minotaur)

[roberthahn → RBerenguel]

…and for anyone wanting to try out more logic mazes, I suggest you check out one of the masters of creating them: Robert Abbott: http://logicmazes.com/

[RBerenguel → roberthahn]

Yup, it's a very interesting page. I learnt about logic mazes there, after learning (and playing) Theseus and the minotaur. Just didn't want to add links to avoid sounding spammy (not implying that you do!)

[BWStearns]

Very cool puzzles and nice to share the code.

One thing about the example mazes/solutions. On the hard one, isn't tqp-khe-bdc-a a faster solution to the hard one listed?/Doesn't going t-r first violate the red light rule?

[zulko → BWStearns]

You are reading it backwards, you must start in (a).

[BWStearns → zulko]

The old holding the map backwards mistake. /facepalm

Thanks for letting me know though, my brain went with starting at the bottom for some reason rather than the letters.

[judk]

One of the example solutions breaks the rule of "only pass a light once"

[zulko → judk]

It doesn't say that, it says "twice in a row". This means you cannot half-turn and just go back the street you came from.