Logic maze
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Logic mazes, sometimes called 'mazes with rules', are logic puzzle
Logic puzzle
A logic puzzle is a puzzle deriving from the mathematics field of deduction.-History:The logic puzzle was first produced by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who is better known under his pen name Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...

s with all the aspects of a tour puzzle
Tour puzzle
In tour puzzles the player of the puzzle makes a trip around a board using a token which represents a traveller....

 that fall outside of the scope of a typical maze
Maze
A maze is a tour puzzle in the form of a complex branching passage through which the solver must find a route. In everyday speech, both maze and labyrinth denote a complex and confusing series of pathways, but technically the maze is distinguished from the labyrinth, as the labyrinth has a single...

. These mazes have special rules, sometimes including multiple states of the maze or navigator. Popular logic mazes include tilt mazes and other novel designs which usually increase the complexity of the maze, sometimes to the point that the maze has to be designed by a program to eliminate multiple paths. Additional examples include:
  • Area-mazes or A-mazes, which the area of the tile stepped on must alternately increase and decrease with every step.
  • Rolling dice mazes, in which a die is rolled onto cells based on various rules.
  • Number mazes, in which a grid of numbers is navigated by traveling the number shown on the current square.
  • Multi-State mazes, in which the rules for navigation change depending on how the maze has been navigated.

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