Adrian Fisher

Flicked through this when I found it on my shelves back home. It's fine, but after a while my brain spotted the patterns in the mazes too easily. A lot of them have weird rules, like you have to follow certain colours, or knight's moves, or in a certain direction, which makes them non-trivial to solve, unlike regular mazes (which are also included - some of them are based on reality), but after a while you see into the main author's thought processes. And for most of them, I ended up solving the maze by working backwards, eventually. Sometimes you have to, otherwise the target isn't obvious.

The other thing is I probably have read it at least two or three times before, so there was a distant familiarity about most of the mazes. Like déjà vu except real.… (mehr)

Fisher provides a decent overview of mazes -- mostly physical manifestations of those paper-based puzzles -- in this short book. There are brief summaries of different types of mazes (including the fun-to-say "maize mazes") and there are several pictures on almost every page to illustrate the text. Fisher designed several of the mazes listed in the book, but he's the only designer noted by name. There's a short bibliography in the back (listing five of Fisher's other books), and a very good listing of mazes in Britain to visit.… (mehr)