Elabyrinth - an electronic maze to test your brain power
Puzzle-solvers are well acquainted with the idea of a maze. It is made up of a complex pattern of passages and cor- ridors, the object of the exercise being to find the route from the entrance to the exit. With a maze drawn on paper this is relatively simple because of the "bird"s eye view" effect. This makes it easy to see the complete situation at the same time and "dead ends" are easy to avoid. If an easily solved "paper" maze is actually laid out in hedges or walls, however, it becomes far from easy to find the way out. It is then a matter of frequent `U-turns" and it is really memory-taxing trying to remember where you have and where you have not been. Whenever you come to a dead end you must first find back the way you came before you can head in the right direction. In short, a "real" maze, or labyrinth, is a lot more difficult, but also much more in- teresting and exciting than the paper puzzles of the same name. In order to make an interesting electronic version of a maze...
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