Poster Size Weaving Maze - Daily Maze #1038

October 22, 2021

I thought I would try blogging about the daily maze. I have been doing daily mazes on the website for a few years, so this is actually Daily Maze #1038. My theme of the month is Poster Mazes, or large mazes that are formatted to print on an 11x17 Tabloid or Ledger piece of paper. Each day I have done a new type of maze, but from now to the end of the month I will be mixing in some Halloween mazes and some Maze art that is VERY DIFFICULT to solve.

But today I bring you a Weaving Maze in Poster form. Weaving mazes are one of my most favorite types of mazes to make even though they take more time than most mazes. I think there is more thought needed to get the design the way you want it and not create bad pathways. The larger format really gives you room to design a complex maze.

Large Weaving Maze 6 diamonds — Weaving Maze Poster

maze download

If you are interested in making and designing your own Weaving Path Maze, I can help with that ! It is one of the few mazes where I recommend using a template to help guide you in the design.

Even with the template it is easy to make mistakes. If you want a fun challenge try to find the mistakes in these weaving mazes, collected in Part 1 observation skills, and also in Part 2. It is a good test of your observation skills.

And if you find that you love solving this type of maze I have a book for sale on Amazon of 100 Weaving Mazes. Clicking on the book cover will take you to the Amazon page.

Can You Find the Maze Design Mistake ? Part 2

January 5, 2021

I love making weaving mazes, but they present some challenges for the maze designer in addition to the solver. So much that I made a full post of my mistakes to test your observation skills. Turns out, there are now enough mistakes for a Part 2 !!! Not sure if that should get any exclamation points, but here we are.

If you want to try making them yourself you can read how I make a Weaving Maze, or the revised, improved weaving maze option. And if you think you would enjoy real, correct weaving mazes to solve like the ones below you can check out multiple books on Amazon.

Let’s test your observation skills !

Here are the 2 main types of mistakes I made. A path that ends under another, or one that never comes out from under another.

Let’s get started with our first maze which looks like a window. I like the design of the weaving maze but, it wouldn’t be here if there wasn’t a problem in the design. Can you find it ? When you are ready, scroll down to get the answer !

For me, that was a tough one to find the mistake. If you found the design mistake, great job ! Let’s look at maze #2 and see how you do.

Maze #2 is the most popular shape I use. The shape is great for using for weaving mazes, but again I made a design mistake. Can you find it ? When you are ready, scroll down to get the answer !

And now Maze #3. Can you find the design issue with this square wheel weaving maze ?

Another path to nowhere…I found that one quickly. maybe because it was in a corner.

Maze #4 is a version of my favorite shape, just with a different start/goal configuration than normal. Can you find the error ? You know what to do.

That was a tough one for me. I know the purpose of this post is to test your observation skills, but I just want to mention that this type of maze is really fun to solve (and design IMO). I made a poster size (11x17) weaving maze of a skull that people seem to like. I have a book of these on Amazon also. Try to solve a few of these - just don’t dead end at my mistakes !!

Back to the observation game. How about this fun shape?

I wish we were done, but I made a lot of mistakes, I’m just glad I caught them and could make them into something interesting (assuming so if you are still here!)

Let’s try this one, an apple weaving maze

Still more unfortunately.. Try this cloudlike shape. I am not sure what made me design a maze in this shape or maybe more accurately non-shape, but here we are.

And that does it. My mistakes became a game. I’d like to say this is the last time we do this, but I know it is not ! How did you do ? Would you be interested in more content like this ?

Can You Find the Maze Design Mistake ?

December 24, 2020

One of my favorite types of mazes to make is the Weaving Maze. I think the construction helps make relatively small mazes much more complicated to solve. It is certainly difficult to “eye solve” a weaving maze by quickly eliminating possible paths that have a dead end near the intersection you are at. But, it also presents some challenges for the maze maker and that’s what we talk about today.

When I wrote my How To Make A Maze blog post to show how I make a Weaving Maze, it became the only maze that got a second post with a revised, improved option. I was making so many of them (enough for multiple books on Amazon) that I came up with a new way to create them with a more consistent look. What I still have trouble with is breaking a key rule when creating the maze, and that is missing a path and letting it dead end under another path. How does it happen ? Well, during the construction there are many balls in the air (possible paths) so to speak. To make the paths weave there need to be multiple paths to cross over. Creating the maze can look a bit like chaos and mistakes get made. I have let multiple slip through the cracks during editing. Let’s see if you can find the mistakes and test your observation skills !

Here are the 2 main types of mistakes I made:

Examples of maze mistakes — Examples of mistakes you might find.

Let’s get started with our first maze. When you are ready, scroll down to get the answer !

I left a path under another and didn’t end it properly. Let’s try your luck another with this clover maze.

Same mistake, new spot. Can you be money and solve the next one ?

Another path to nowhere…How this next one ?

Did you find the mistake hidden in the clouds ?

Did you reach home plate and find that one ? Did you find the almost mistake in the upper middle right ? The path only slightly comes out the other side. Let’s try a Spade Maze.