A maze is a path or collection of paths, typically from an entrance to a goal. The word is used to refer both to branching tour puzzles through which the solver must find a route, and to simpler non-branching ("unicursal") patterns that lead unambiguously through a convoluted layout to a goal. The term "labyrinth" is generally synonymous with "maze", but can also connote specifically a unicursal pattern. The pathways and walls in a maze are typically fixed, but puzzles in which the walls and paths can change during the game are also categorised as mazes or tour puzzles.

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Notable quotes

“Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?”
— Simón Bolívar, in a statement made in the last months of his life, occasionally said to be his last words, and portrayed as such in The General in His Labyrinth (1990) by Gabriel García Márquez, as translated by Edith Grossman, p. 267
“A labyrinth of symbols… An invisible labyrinth of time.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, in "The Garden of Forking Paths" in The Garden of Forking Paths (1942)
“There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, in "Ibn-Hakim Al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth", in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
“I wanted to create a labyrinth which would somehow help to prevent a compositional idea from establishing itself all too quickly. I had the idea of working on all the walls pretty well at the same time,as if they were one large painting completely surrounding me. By constantly wandering in the labyrinth I sought to realise a form of “de-composition””
— Günter Brus, in Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)
“I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man’s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth... I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.”
— Marcel Marceau, as quoted in Wall Street Journal (19 November 1965)
“This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.”
— Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver (2003)

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Overview

A maze is a path or collection of paths, typically from an entrance to a goal. The word is used to refer both to branching tour puzzles through which the solver must find a route, and to simpler non-branching ("unicursal") patterns that lead unambiguously through a convoluted layout to a goal. The term "labyrinth" is generally synonymous with "maze", but can also connote specifically a unicursal pattern. The pathways and walls in a maze are typically fixed, but puzzles in which the walls and paths can change during the game are also categorised as mazes or tour puzzles.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

A maze is a path or collection of paths, typically from an entrance to a goal. The word is used to refer both to branching tour puzzles through which the solver must find a route, and to simpler non-branching ("unicursal") patterns that lead unambiguously through a convoluted layout to a goal. The term "labyrinth" is generally synonymous with "maze", but can also connote specifically a unicursal pattern. The pathways and walls in a maze are typically fixed, but puzzles in which the walls and paths can change during the game are also categorised as mazes or tour puzzles.

Notable quotes

“Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?”
— Simón Bolívar, in a statement made in the last months of his life, occasionally said to be his last words, and portrayed as such in The General in His Labyrinth (1990) by Gabriel García Márquez, as translated by Edith Grossman, p. 267
“A labyrinth of symbols… An invisible labyrinth of time.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, in "The Garden of Forking Paths" in The Garden of Forking Paths (1942)
“There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, in "Ibn-Hakim Al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth", in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
“I wanted to create a labyrinth which would somehow help to prevent a compositional idea from establishing itself all too quickly. I had the idea of working on all the walls pretty well at the same time,as if they were one large painting completely surrounding me. By constantly wandering in the labyrinth I sought to realise a form of “de-composition””
— Günter Brus, in Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)
“I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man’s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth... I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.”
— Marcel Marceau, as quoted in Wall Street Journal (19 November 1965)
“This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.”
— Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver (2003)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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