I Draw Mazes
A downloadable game
This is a maze in a single illustration.
Start at START HERE and find your way to GOAL!
- The game uses simple English.
- The game requires you to distinguish between different colors.
Made for the Rule-Discovery Paper Puzzle Game Jam
Hints and Solutions (Please open them from top to bottom.)
1-1
Follow the arrows from START HERE and make your way through the maze. Pick up the letters along the way.1-2
You have left the maze. Try following some kind of instruction to reach GOAL.1-3
When your direction of travel meets an eye, try changing your direction to match the direction the eye is looking, then continue straight ahead.1-4
You have reached GOAL. Connect the letters you collected. (The answer will be shown next.)1-ANSWER
The answer for Round 1 is DELETE MAZES.2-1
Try moving while ignoring the maze. The first letter you get is P, followed by I.2-2
Proceed carefully, paying attention to eyes looking at a 45-degree angle. You should eventually reach the monoeye-ghost. However, if you keep going straight, you will hit the edge of the picture.2-3
The CYAN vortex has a corresponding pair. Is it a Portal?2-4
Keep the same direction when entering, and continue from the other vortex. You immediately get the letter O. After that, you should be able to follow the eyes to GOAL. (The answer will be shown next.)2-ANSWER
The answer for Round 2 is PINK MOUTH.3-1
Sure enough, there are characters with PINK mouths all over the place. What are we supposed to do with them?3-2
Did you come into contact with any characters with pink mouths while following the path you took earlier? Try looking closely at just the pink mouths of the characters you encountered in Round 2. They seem to have strange shapes.3-3
They are letters. The shapes of their mouths form letters of the alphabet. For example, the first one looks like O, and the next one looks like P. Now try collecting all the letters from the mouths you encountered in Round 2.3-4
The result is OPOSITEYE. What could this mean? Is it correct?3-5
I know what you want to read it as: OPPOSITE EYE, right? But how?3-6
If you want to read "PP" twice, perhaps you can interpret each eye as being counted separately, with the right eye and left eye treated independently. If so, it seems to form a proper sentence. (The answer will be shown next.)3-ANSWER
So, the answer for Round 3 is OPPOSITE EYE.4-1
What does OPPOSITE EYE mean? The right eye relative to the left eye? But we cannot tell what the left eye of the first character is doing. Then perhaps we should reverse the direction in which the eyes are looking?4-2
If the rule is "Move in the opposite direction from the eye's gaze," there is a downward-looking eye immediately after the START arrow, so we should move upward. Let's try that.4-3
The letters are U R N L F T, and when we follow the cat's eye to the right, there are no more eyes. Is this really correct?4-4
We want to turn the letters we just found into a word or phrase. Can you think of a possibility?4-5
How about TURN LEFT? If so, there must have been a T and an E somewhere along the way. Where are they?4-6
The T was right after the start. There was only one character from PINK MOUTH with an E.4-7
Now we still need to solve the problem of not reaching GOAL. If we continue straight from the cat to the right edge, we hit a blue triangle. We should probably use this somehow.4-8
How about turning 90 degrees, like a reflection of light? You immediately pick up the O below it, and the path seems to continue all the way to GOAL. (The answer will be shown next.)4-ANSWER
The answer for Round 4 is TURN LEFT ON RED.5-1
Turn left on red. There was a red heart immediately after START. If we turn 90 degrees here, we will move left.5-2
Don't forget the first T. Collect T, A, L, K, S, and since the cat is looking toward the lower right, move toward the upper left. You will reflect diagonally off the blue reflector, then turn 90 degrees left at the red rectangle. Since you are heading toward the upper left, you immediately collect F.5-3
There is a red vortex. What should we do with it? Should we turn left, treat it as a Portal, or perhaps turn left immediately after coming out of the Portal?5-4
There are number panels instead of letters. If you collect them correctly according to the red vortex rule, you should get 4625G.... GOAL is right in front of you.5-5
Watch out for the PINK mouths and the red G panel. (The answer will be shown next.)5-ANSWER
The answer for Round 5 is TALKS OF 4 6 2 5 GUYS.6-1
There are numbers written on the characters' clothes.6-2
The Guy wearing 4 says FOLLOW. Let's follow it. (The answer will be shown next.)6-ANSWER
The answer for Round 6 is FOLLOW CAT TAIL DIRECTION.7-1
There is a cat immediately after the turn at the red heart. We want to change direction according to the cat's tail, but the instruction is ambiguous. What should we do?7-2
Well, There are several possible interpretations. Let's try this one: When you touch a cat, use its tail instead of its gaze. Start from the tip of the cat's tail and move in the direction it points.7-3
This makes you move at an angle other than 45 degrees, but you collect the E panel and can pass over the T from the Guy wearing 12. T E T R... Let's keep going. (The answer will be shown next.)7-ANSWER
The answer for Round 7 is TETROMINO FROM 20.8-1
A TETROMINO is a Tetris piece. There are lots of Tetris pieces around the Guy wearing 20, but what are we supposed to do with them?8-2
Dots are coming out of the I-mino he is holding. Just like the dots from the eye at START HERE, these indicate "move this way." Try moving to the right from the I-mino.8-3
You run into an L-mino. If you ignore the L-mino and keep going straight, you get "JUMP The" and reach the right edge without reaching GOAL.... So we can guess that we are supposed to use the L-mino somehow.8-4
How about entering through the cells of the L-mino from the left and exiting upward? If so, you get R, then turn right at the next L-mino. The next T-mino is red, so turn left at it, meaning you move upward. This interpretation seems to produce a path.8-5
The letters on the panels are RTRE...? Ah, we also have to collect the pink mouths here. And after the cat, we re-enter the I-mino diagonally upward, allowing us to continue through the Tetris pieces all the way to the yellow Portal. (The answer will be shown next.)8-ANSWER
The answer for Round 8 is RESTORE MAZES.9-1
Restore the maze you deleted at the beginning. Then, with all the rules you have learned, solve it again starting from START HERE.9-2
When you encounter a Portal in the maze, you should probably continue from the other side while maintaining your direction of travel. It seems that you should not turn back along the path you came from. (The answer will be shown next.)9-ANSWER
The answer for Round 9 is THE ANSWER IS GOLDEN PLANTS.10-1
There were two golden plants somewhere. One of them is inside the maze in the upper left. Look closely and you will see that it is glowing. Now all that's left is to solve it. (The answer will be shown next.)10-ANSWER
The answer for Round 10 is CONGRATS. That's the end of the puzzle. Thank you so much for playing!Download
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Cute and clever! I got stuck at the last step and ended up looking it up and even then it took me a while to grasp how it worked, but everything makes sense in the end ^_^
Awesome!
fun puzzle and very fun interpretation of the theme!
thankyou!