Daedalus My Muse

Early in my childhood I had a penchant for puzzles. All kinds of puzzles, from hidden pictures to cryptograms to crosswords (and had seduko appeared in the Sunday paper back then, I probably would be a master by now).

These were the days before (gasp!) video games; although I would eventually come to own an Atari 2600 and think Adventure was the coolest thing on earth. I suppose my passion for puzzles drove, in part at least, my career into graphic design and computer programming.

Though I created different types of puzzles, by far my favorites were mazes. Not sure exactly why but I remember composing volumes of them.

But alas, with the encroachment of responsibilities such as school, work, and family, making mazes took a backseat.

Digital Mazes

It would be 20 some odd years before I picked up a pencil to sketch a maze again but in 2000 I did, this time though, I had an arsenal of multimedia tools at my command. For 3 months I banged out graphic and photo realistic mazes, sometimes doing 2 to 3 mazes a day.

I submitted 4 of them to Games magazine -- effectively the only international publication dedicated to puzzles for adults. They accepted all of them and I was officially published by September of that year.

A maze book is in the works for 2007.

Below are a few of the mazes that I didn't submit to Games, free for personal use only. Solutions are included. They are in print ready PDFs (you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader).

If you would like to use these or other mazes for commercial purposes, please contact me.

I was recently interviewed in the Fairfield Business Journal talking about my love of mazes. Read the Profits & Passions article.