Maze of the Week #58 - The Gherkin

Maze of the week #58 takes us to London, England with this maze of The Gherkin building. I made a few different versions of this maze as you’ll see below. If you want to visit the building at 30 St Mary Axe you can check out their the Gherkin website. Or check out this cool article featuring 28 facts about the building.

Take 2 minutes to watch a video about the building:

The Mazes: I prefer the full color skinny version below that highlights the height and form of the building.

The Gherkin Maze

Version 2: The black and white “wide” version which has a different maze/solution than the color version !

I hope you enjoy the mazes. Downloads of the Gherkin Maze are available.

Coming next week:

A street scene in Mexico !

Maze of the Week #57 - NYC Subway Map Maze

Maze of the week #57 was originally done for a charity event. One print of it exists. I made it in 2013 and recently found it. I thought it had been lost so it was a good day. The maze is of the NYC Subway Map. Not the current one with the new upper west side extension, but the old school version. I built a maze on top of it using Microsoft Paint, creating one pixel at a time (it took several months to create). Then I came up with rules on how to ride the subway to move around. And to top it all off, because of the large size it is actually 10 mazes in one ! You can see all the maze challenges in the top right corner.

There are many great videos about the subway, but why not check out this one :

Rather than include a photo of the map system…check out the current one here.

The Maze: It is sized at 100% of a subway map (so very large). The 10 mazes are listed in the top right (Service Notes) along with the rules. Unfortunately, I never made the answer key :(

NYC Subway Map Maze

I hope you enjoy the maze(s). If you want to give it a try, the maze download is available.

Coming next week:

A famous UK building.

Maze of the Week #56 - Matrimandir at Auroville Maze

Maze of the week #56 takes us to the other side of India, in Auroville, Tamil Nadu and features the Matrimandir building. It took almost 40 years to be built and was completed in 2008. It is the main building in the complex for Integral Yoga practitioners. It features a dome covered in golden colored discs. You can read more about it on the Wikipedia Page.

Check out a video of the building from the visitor center YouTube page:

A Photo of the Building:

The original uploader was Santoshnc at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons

The Maze: I found the colors difficult to match but went with a full color version to highlight the golden discs. In different lights the discs take on different shades.

Matrimandir at Auroville Maze

I hope you enjoy the maze. Download is available on the homepage. Check out videos of the maze being made on my new YouTube Channel.

Coming next week:

A famous map.

2022 Maze of the Year voting results !

Thank you to everyone who voted ! In 2022 I made 52 mazes (plus a few variations) in 52 weeks and 14 of them were popular and up for voting in the maze of the year. Voting always surprises me when it comes to my mazes. Before I get to the results, if you missed the finalists you can watch the video of them on my new YouTube channel.

And now the top 5 mazes of 2022 as voted on by you! Of course we had a tie at #5 so 6…let’s get to it !

Maze of the year #5(Tie) Sydney Opera House

Maze of the year #5(Tie) Chich’en Itza Pyramid

Maze of the year #4 The Louvre

I only made 4 mazes that were located outside of the USA and 3 made the top 5, all famous places to visit !

Maze of the year #3 Sit and Spin Laundromat Sign

If there was a winner for sign maze of the year this is it! And, of course it is made from a photo of a real sign in Fayetteville, Arkansas ! Do people like the sign or the maze ?

Maze of the year #2 Epcot Center Spaceship Earth

This one surprised me. Maybe all my voters have found memories of visiting Disney World ?

And finally we have our top vote getter from a city I live in part time and a place I have walked by over 100 times ! There is a variation of this with a grey front (the color of the building shifts based on time of day and light).

Maze of the year #1 Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Museum

So thank you all for voting. Free downloads of all mazes are available on the website homepage ! In the end we have 5 tourist destinations and a laundromat sign. I hope you come back at the end of 2023 to vote again ! I look forward to making more maze art for everyone to enjoy !