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So this would be more of a labyrinth than a maze?


No, a labarynth is a single twisting route without branches. A maze has branches and thus can have dead-ends. Both must have an entry and exit point (technically mazes may have more than one exit and entry, but most don't).


That’s open for debate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth:

”Although early Cretan coins occasionally exhibit branching (multicursal) patterns

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both logic and literary descriptions make it clear that the Minotaur was trapped in a complex branching maze

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In English, the term labyrinth is generally synonymous with maze. As a result of the long history of unicursal representation of the mythological Labyrinth, however, many contemporary scholars and enthusiasts observe a distinction between the two.”


> a labarynth is a single twisting route without branches. A maze has branches and thus can have dead-ends.

I was today years old when I learned this.




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