One type consists of a set of rooms linked by doors (so a passageway is just another room in this definition). You enter at one spot, and exit at another, or the idea may be to reach a certain spot in the maze.
Mazes have been built with walls and rooms, with hedges[?], turf[?], or crops such as corn or, indeed, maize, or with paving stones of contrasting colors or designs.
Mazes can also be drawn on paper to be followed by a pencil.
One of the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges featured a book that was a literary maze.
Various maze generation algorithms exist for building mazes, either by hand or by computer.
The mathematician Leonhard Euler was one of the first to analyse mazes mathematically, and in doing so founded the science of topology.
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