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First person to solve the maze and link up the solution in the comments section gets $50 off their 37signals product of choice.
nate
on 11 Sep 08I think there’s a jQuery plugin for that.
Simon
on 11 Sep 08How about the Photoshop fill tool? ;)
ajmastrean
on 11 Sep 08A valid maze will have all corridors accessible (dead ends are allowed). A fill tool will show every path. You’ll just end up with a different colored maze.
Chris
on 11 Sep 08So… are we allowed to traverse those big black areas? Or not?
William H. Harle Jr.
on 11 Sep 08http://flickr.com/photos/90percentgravity/2848155063/
Ummm
on 11 Sep 08Chris: “black” is the color of walls in this maze, so, no.
Tyler Karaszewski
on 11 Sep 08Here’s a photoshop maze solving tequnique someone might want to try. http://taint.org/2007/06/19/121541a.html I don’t have photoshop.
Jin
on 11 Sep 08there goes my work productivity of the day… thanks guy.
William H. Harle Jr.
on 11 Sep 08http://flickr.com/photos/90percentgravity/2848155063/
There we go, actual link
Mark Hulme
on 11 Sep 08solved (with a mouse, no less)
http://senduit.com/6bf34c
Dylan Bennett
on 11 Sep 08http://mboffin.com/stuff/37s-maze-big.gif
Tyson Tate
on 11 Sep 08And look, I only had to post one comment to figure out how to make a link!
Sean Cornwall
on 11 Sep 08The photoshop cheat method does work (select right wall, expand selection, fill, contract selection, delete) but it also causes inability to ever have fun with anything, ever, again.
Javan
on 11 Sep 08I think I’ve got it covered.
JF
on 11 Sep 08William H. Harle Jr., shoot me an email at jason at 37s… you know the rest. Thanks.
Spencer Fry
on 11 Sep 08Solved! But beaten to the punch… good work!
StartBreakingFree.com
on 11 Sep 08Nice work William…quick on the draw. I wrote a java program to solve these things back in undergrad, but the photoshop method is def faster here ;)
A great reminder that there is almost always a simpler more elegant solution to the problem at hand. Brian
Matti
on 11 Sep 08Damn, I wasted probably 15 min on this. ;-)
Matti
on 11 Sep 08Funny thing about human motivation—I had to complete the maze, even though I knew I wouldn’t get anything out of it.
Aron
on 11 Sep 08You guys should do more of these!
JeffM
on 11 Sep 08Can someone port this to Chip’s Challenge? :-)
rumblestrut
on 11 Sep 08This reminds me of the WKRP episode “The Contest Nobody Could Win.”
iTunes link to the episode
Peter
on 11 Sep 08Another solution using image analysis software here.
Jake Spurlock
on 11 Sep 08http://flickr.com/photos/whyisjake/2848477495/sizes/o/
Stephen Gerstacker
on 11 Sep 08Solved it with a Ruby script. If you’re interested, I made a post about it.
Blog Post
Solution
paul
on 11 Sep 08That Ruby solution deserves $50 off! Bloody brilliant!
Bob
on 11 Sep 08Wow, nice work with the Ruby script. I agree, props to him!
Anonymous Coward
on 11 Sep 08Photoshop puzzle solver.
http://www.revver.com/video/307707/how-to-solve-a-maze-puzzle-using-photoshop/
brt
on 12 Sep 08the photoshop thing works, all u need to do is erase the line connecting the end and the start, so the wand dont select the whole thing
javi
on 12 Sep 08why??!
bayasaa
on 12 Sep 08Solved with C++.
http://flickr.com/photos/bayasaa/2849811195/sizes/o/
Charlie Wollborg
on 12 Sep 08How did you create the maze?
AnotherGuy
on 13 Sep 08There’s absolutely no way I can prove it, but I feel pretty smart now. I got about halfway through in about a minute with just my eyes. Then I got bored, saw that William had won it, and thought I’d post congratulations. :)
Some nifty tricks you guys thought up, though.
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