Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 793.73 EAN: 9780030045899 ISBN: 0030045894 Label: Henry Holt & Co (P) Manufacturer: Henry Holt & Co (P) Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 96 Publication Date: 1985-11 Publisher: Henry Holt & Co (P) Studio: Henry Holt & Co (P)
This is not really a book. This is a building in the shape of a book...a maze. Each numbered page depicts a room in the maze. Tempted? Test your wits against mine. I guarantee that my maze will challenge you to think in ways you've never thought before. But beware. One wrong turn and you may never escape!
Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating: Summary: Help where is the solution. LOL~~~~ :) Comment: Hard, YES. I have yet to solve this maze. It is not your typical maze more like walking thru a fun house and you can never find your way out.
I work at it about an hour then give up always ending up in the same wrong place.
If you like a challange then this is the puzzle for you. Customer Rating: Summary: Good fun! Comment: The concept of this book/puzzle is simple: each page is a separate room. Left-hand pages include brief descriptions of the rooms, while right-hand pages feature detailed illustrations of the rooms. The two major puzzles of the book are: 1. to get to the "center" of the maze (room 45), and find the shortest route back to page 1, and 2. to solve the riddle feature in the center of the maze.
The illustrations are fun to look at and, to my eye, resemble the work of Chris Van Allsburg ("Jumanji", "Polar Express", "Zathura", "The Mysteries of Harris Burdick").
I recommend this book for lovers of riddles and puzzles or anyone who enjoyed "MYST" or the old Infocom games, like "Zork".
Customer Rating: Summary: Unusual Comment: This is a must in any library, whether you like mazes or not. Beautifully done. Customer Rating: Summary: One of the best puzzles ever, but also one of the toughest Comment: A puzzle not for the faint-of-heart -- there is NO solution available to brute force and you are not expected to solve it in an evening. It's an exciting, detailed trip through a fiendish den of riddles and allusions with an untrustworthy guide, and I've used it as a great conversation piece with smart people. (Somewhere I have whole notebooks filled with sketched maps and riddle notes, the combined efforts of my theatre group ...) Highly recommended for those who love difficult, DIFFICULT puzzles. Customer Rating: Summary: nice but ... no answers Comment: The format of this book is interesting: each numbered page is a room. The reader's goal is interesting: find the path from the first room to the 45th room and back. The text follows a person (the narrator) guiding a small group of visitors around the maze-building. The drawings are all pen & ink (no color). The task & setup are fun, but ...
Here are my issues: (1) The narrator is a bit nasty -- nothing unsuitable for young children, but certainly not pleasant. (2) You absolutely MUST solve at least one riddle to find a path from room 1 to room 45. (3) There is no way to know whether you have found the correct answer to a riddle -- or for that matter, the shortest path.
My daughter & I have enjoyed reading this book together. It was intersting & fun. You'll enjoy it more if you aren't expecting a 5-star book.
