On Apr 11, 4:00 am, Harry Mary Andruschak <adoptsoldc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> Sometimes my midnight web surfing brings me to strange sites. Here is
> one, concerning an unusual type of maze...
>
> http://www.logicmazes.com/bur.html
>
> And I wonder, has anyone tried this sort of maze at a Science Fiction
> Convention? If so, what were the results?
>
> And if not, do you think it might be worthwhile to try it out? How
> many fans would show up? How many would drop out from discouragement?
> Would the remaining fans do a quicker solution of the maze then the
> MENSA group?
>
> And, yes, I'd be glad to be the organizer of this activity, assuming I
> could find a convention that I would be attending, and which would be
> willing to donate a larger room for the length of time it would take
> to run the maze.
>
> PS, I tried the online bureaucratic mazes, and they are indeed tough.
> Of course, fans would have the advantage over the Mensa, in that they
> could quickly GOOGLE "Bureaucratic Maze" and use pen and paper from
> the very start to map the maze.
Two things come to mind:
1) the Choose Your Own Adventure paperbacks <http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure>
2. I think it was a Keith Laumer story in Dangerous Visions about a
line of people, a very long line, waiting to get their papers
stamped. Once done they go to the end of the line and start all over
again.
GeekGirl
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