Even Been to This Free London Yew Maze?
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TIL
From a first glance, cycles, but is it really a maze without those?
3-dimensional mazes (which have bridges or tunnels) also often cannot be solved with this rule.
The requirement is that the walls should be connected, i.e. that there are no free-standing walls somewhere in the maze not connected to the border walls, for example.
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if the end is instead on a different "cycle", it won't work: -------
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Hopefully this makes sense. I'm sure there's a propper phrasing of this in topology, but I don't know it.Of course in a maze with cycles you might still reach the goal, but it's not guaranteed. For example there's a cycle in Hampton Court Maze, but the left- and right-hand rules both get you to the goal from the entrance.
Also, if the hedges were mapped, they would appear in dark green on the map.