Monthly Maze Competition - May 2012

Every month Mazelog is giving away a superb Hanayama cast metal puzzle as a prize for the winning entry to the monthly maze.

PuzzleThis

This month the competition has been sponsored by Puzzle This, an on-line shop specialising in wire, wooden, metal, and string puzzles. They supply the entire range of Hanayama cast puzzles.

Visit their on-line store at: http://www.puzzlethis-shop.co.uk/

This month's prize is the Hanayama Cast Elk puzzle, in which the task is to separate two chromed shapes emblazoned with an elk insignia. How hard can that be? The answer - very hard! In fact Hanayama give this their highest difficulty rating of 6 out of 6.

Hanayama Cast Elk puzzleHanayama Cast Elk puzzle

Full details of how to enter are given below. Here's this month's maze:

Chess 77 (easy)

This is a standard chess maze (see Chess Mazes). The chess piece on each square tells you how you can move to the next square.

For example, from the bishop in the top left corner you can only move to the knight diagonally below it and to its right. From here you could make a knight's jump to three possible pieces. Suppose you chose the rook in the middle of the top row; this could then move to one of the pieces on either side of it, or to the bishop two squares below it.

Start in the top left-hand corner, and find a route to the bottom right-hand corner.

Chess 77

How to Enter

Your solution to the Chess 77 maze above should be written as a sequence of numbers, indicating the route through the maze, where 1 is the top left cell and 49 is the bottom right cell:

Numbering

The first number should be 1, the starting position, and the last number should be 49, the goal, so a possible solution might be (it isn't):

1 3 5 7 9 49

Entry Form

Email:This will be used to notify you if you have won, and will not be made public.
Name:(Optional) to identify you on the published list of correct entries.
Solution: A list of numbers, separated by spaces, identifying the sequence of squares to solve the maze.

Conditions

  • Entry is free.
  • The competition is only available in the UK.
  • Only one entry may be made per email address.
  • The competition starts on 1st May 2012 and closes at midnight GMT on 31st May 2012. Entries received after that time will not be eligible.
  • The winning entry will be chosen at random from all correct entries received by the closing time, and will be notified by email to the email address supplied with the entry.
  • The prize will be sent by post to the winning entrant. No alternative prize or cash equivalent is available.
  • The solution, and a list of all correct entries, will be shown together with next month's competition on 1st June 2012.
  • The judge's decision is final.

Last Month's Solution

For the solution to last month's Mazelog competition, and details of the winning entries, click here: Last Month's Solution