Wednesday, 26 November 2014

A blue, white and red maze


First, let's give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar: this maze comes from the mind of Dave Phillips, a brilliant maze designer 1.


So, for the maze. It is a fairly easy one:


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Your goal is to exit by the blue tile on top left, after having entered the maze by the red tile at the bottom right. And here are the rules:



  • Keep to the path;

  • Do not turn around;


  • Alternate between red and blue tiles (i.e. don't pass over two red/blue tiles in a row).




1 Check his website!



Answer



If going over the same path twice is allowed, this is a probable solution. I just started at the end and worked my way backwards to the start since there is only one possibility for the second-last tile (the other red tile would have resulted in an infinite loop)



The line colour is the colour of the last tile passed through

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