No left turn mazes |
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Your challenge is to manouvre the black dot to the red square without ever turning left, or making a U-turn. Harder than it looks. Maze No.1 can also be found in the Maze Gallery. Maze No.2 is an 'open' maze based on the same rule. An illustration of a mechanical no-X-turn maze is also shown below
New July 2005: Two new mazes added, designed by Palmer Mebane.
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Beware, if you make a bad decision in this maze you may get completely stuck and have to restart. Controls Movement Keys |
No-X-turn mazes were first offered to the public in the lates 90s as full-size walk-round mazes to accompany maize-mazes in the USA and UK. They are most frequently built using bales of hay. You can read about all types of walk-thru mazes, and see some photos, here at Robert Abbott's site.
| And here is a photo showing a mechanical version of a No-X-turn maze (in this case a no-right-turn maze). It was made by M. Oskar van Deventer from the Netherlands, based on Adrian Fisher's Jammed Tractor design. A special half-moon shape under the tractor prevents it from turning right or backing up |
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Applet – © Andrea Gilbert 2000-05
Maze designs – © Andrea Gilbert 2000 & Palmer Mebane 2005
No-X-turn mechanical puzzle – © M. Oskar van Deventer 2000
Jammed Tractor maze design – © Adrian Fisher 1998