Thirty entertaining, challenging mazes: 3-D constructions, directional arrows, designated stops, and more. From easy "No Brainers" to "Full Brain Overload," which might take hours to solve. Includes "hints section."

Unlock the secrets to creating random mazes! Whether you're a game developer, an algorithm connoisseur, or simply in search of a new puzzle, you're about to level up. Learn algorithms to randomly generate mazes in a variety of shapes, sizes, and dimensions. Bend them into Moebius strips, fold them into cubes, and wrap them around spheres. Stretch them into other dimensions, squeeze them into arbitrary outlines, and tile them in a dizzying variety of ways. From twelve little algorithms, you'll discover a vast reservoir of ideas and inspiration. From video games to movies, mazes are ubiquitous. Explore a dozen algorithms for generating these puzzles randomly, from Binary Tree to Eller's, each copiously illustrated and accompanied by working implementations in Ruby. You'll learn their pros and cons, and how to choose the right one for the job. You'll start by learning six maze algorithms and transition from making mazes on paper to writing programs that generate and draw them. You'll be introduced to Dijkstra's algorithm and see how it can help solve, analyze, and visualize mazes. Part 2 shows you how to constrain your mazes to different shapes and outlines, such as text, circles, hex and triangle grids, and more. You'll learn techniques for culling dead-ends, and for making your passages weave over and under each other. Part 3 looks at six more algorithms, taking it all to the next level. You'll learn how to build your mazes in multiple dimensions, and even on curved surfaces. Through it all, you'll discover yourself brimming with ideas, the best medicine for programmer's block, burn-out, and the grayest of days. By the time you're done, you'll be energized and full of maze-related possibilities! What You Need: The example code requires version 2 of the Ruby programming language. Some examples depend on the ChunkyPNG library to generate PNG images, and one chapter uses POV-Ray version 3.7 to render 3D graphics.

Keep Your Child Busy With Hours of Super FUN Mazes! A complete maze experience with: - Mazes with colorable characters and illustrations - Fun themes make solving mazes exciting - Increasing difficulty levels - With real world logic: Bring the chicken home, help the family get to the bus, help the dog get to the bone and more. - Improve hand eye coordination, dexterity and muscle memory - With certificate at back of the book! The amazingly fun mazes and activities in this book are designed to provide an enjoyable and fun learning experience for children of all ages from preschool, nursery and even beyond. Solving maze activities can be a crucial yet fun part of your kid's development, they help in nurturing the development of your child's brain, thought processes, problem solving skills, IQ and intelligence by having your child map out the best path to reach the goal in every activity. Constant practice helps nurture the mind and build hand eye coordination, problem solving skills, muscle memory and dexterity. Each maze is lovingly designed with cute characters and illustrations that your child can color in that are sure to keep your kid engaged. Mazes have increasing difficulty to get your child easily started off with the logic of maze solving and progressing to more challenging mazes as your child gets more experience. Real world logic is incorporated in the mazes, examples are: help chicken to the coop and bring the ball to the hoop. Real world logic helps anchor the activities to real life situations and can be experience for your child.

Enjoy this complete urban fantasy series by USA Today bestselling author Nicole Zoltack where a grim reaper, a sandman, and their friends try to save the world. Donovan Darthe isn’t your typical grim reaper. He’s a paranormal executioner, charged with executing the worst of the worst evil paranormal creatures alongside his sandman partner Sommeil Martin. But when magic starts to fail, the entire world just might fall apart. Included in the boxed set is a never-before-published short story, A GRIM ENCOUNTER! KEYWORDS: mayhem of magic, grim reaper, sandman, oracle, monsters, werewolf, demons, urban fantasy, supernatural suspense, fairytale fantasy, fantasy romance, romantic fantasy, slow burn romance, supernatural powers, magic, come into powers, dark fantasy romance, clean fantasy, academy, young adult paranormal romance, young adult academy, paranormal romance, dark paranormal romance, war, urban fantasy, Free Royal, Raven Kennedy, Kelly St. Clare, Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti, C.N Crawford, Elise Kova, Robin D. Mahle, Elle Madison, D.K. Holmberg, Cordelia Castel, Kay L Moody, Alisha Klaphe

Created by an art director at the Puzzles.COM website, these phenomenal original brainbusters-more than 200 of them-will stimulate your potential for thinking outside the box. Arranged from easiest to hardest, they're especially devised for mind-expanding visual solving. And all it takes to crack their mysteries are a pencil, an eraser, patience, and, of course, boundless imagination! Arrange a hinged chain of 11 squares of different sizes into one large square-without overlapping them. Play two-hole billiards on the page, sending two balls into their respective pockets in just two strokes. Figure out how eight patterned cars fit into a checkered parking lot so their colors match the background exactly. Floor plans, tangrams, matchstick puzzles: the variety is amazing.

Experience the mysterious and magical world of numbers as never before. This unique book investigates mathematical marvels such as why daisies always have 34, 55, or 89 petals, why the world''s phone numbers appear in Pi, and other patterns and paradoxes that will make readers look at numbers in a whole new way.