Maze: Solve the World’s Most Challenging Puzzle Paperback – November 15, 1985
Author: Visit ‘s Christopher Manson Page ID: 0805010882
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This is not one of those pencil mazes you worked on as a kid. The entire book is one addictive maze. Each page spread is a room leading to other page/rooms. Your goal is to find the shortest route to the center and back while solving the puzzle in the center room–if you can figure out what the puzzle is. But then, each room is a puzzle filled with clues to decipher. Read the text and examine the gorgeous illustrations carefully. Beware–not every clue can be trusted. If you’re an online gamer, consider this a Web site you can carry wherever you go.
About the Author
Christopher Manson is an author and illustrator. His books include Maze, A Farmyhard Song and A Tree in the Woods.
Age Range: 12 – 17 yearsPaperback: 96 pagesPublisher: Holt Paperbacks (November 15, 1985)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0805010882ISBN-13: 978-0805010886 Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 0.3 x 8 inches Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #10,648 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #3 in Books > Teens > Hobbies & Games > Games & Activities #32 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Puzzles & Games > Puzzles #137 in Books > Children’s Books > Activities, Crafts & Games > Games
I LOVE products of this type. There have been other contest-based mind-bending puzzles that have come out in book or computer-based form in the past.
However, there is a trend with all of them, including Maze.
The publishers and authors fail to support the product after a few years.
If you intend to buy this book, note that it is interesting, intriguing, and quite appealing. However, there are NO answers to be found, in the book or online in an OFFICIAL capacity.
You can find countless sites online where people have "theories" up, mostly involving mathematical matrices, but there is no official site to go to for page-by-page solutions to the puzzle, therefore making any attempt to solve the puzzle a guessing game only.
For instance, if you are on page 26 and are attempting to decide which door to take, you could spend hours, days, weeks or months trying to come up with reasonings as to what door is correct. However, any "answer" you come up with is nothing but a guess. You have no means to verify that indeed, you came up with the right solution to that page. Conversely, if you are stuck and cannot solve a page/puzzle… you can never move on, ending your experience with the book.
I have a Mensa level IQ, and tackle puzzles like this all the time. But without verification of the answers- and this does not mean a simple list of the rooms you should go through, but rather a page-by-page WHY do you go through door X on page Y, you’re frankly wasting your time.
THE BOOK IS AS OF YET UNSOLVED:
Despite the efforts of thousands of people since its publication, this book has yet to be fully solved. At least four chat groups have appeared and disappeared over the years devoted to cracking the puzzles in this book. If you search online you will find the solution to the 16 room path and the hidden message in the center room but that leaves 29 rooms unsolved and many rooms on the 16 room path have puzzles that have yet to be solved. The $10,000 prize originally attached to this book in 1985 went unclaimed for many months. Eventually they distributed the amount to the individuals who were the closest to a solution. Solving a room, or part of a room, can take weeks, but the feeling of satisfaction is huge… "I solved a room of one of the world’s most difficult puzzles!"
THERE IS A SUPPORT GROUP: [ IntoTheAbyss.net ]
The solution to the main puzzle and attempts at solutions for the other rooms can be found at the forum IntoTheAbyss.net launched this year (2013). The multitude of posts shows just how popular and difficult the book is.
IT IS THE WORLD’S GREATEST SOLVABLE PUZZLE:
I am a fan of puzzles and am very familiar with the scope of available puzzles, in my opinion this is by far the greatest puzzle ever created. It is a masterpiece. The sheer brilliance of its construction is staggering once you delve into it. A few years ago a mathematician attempted to show the relationship between the rooms visually, the result looks like a diagram of the internet. One of the unsolved puzzles is the identity of the unseen "guide." People have theorized that the guide is the Minotaur, King Minos, Icarus, Hades, Christopher Manson (the author), God, Satan, a demon, even an umbrella.
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