Maze: Solve the World's Most Challenging Puzzle

Great art, great puzzles, multiple levels of difficulty. This is a landmark puzzle book that succeeds on so many levels. You can enjoy it as a ten-year-old, you can try to wring the last bit of truth out of it as a 40-year-old. I'm not sure if is ever fully solved or solvable--because the puzzles themself are actually art, and art can't be solved.

The book itself is lovely and wonderful to look through; I can spend hours on the illustrations. The maze is a joy to follow, but the solution is rather a let down.

I'm terrible at open-ended puzzles because I never get any sense of whether I'm moving in the right direction. The solution to a good puzzle makes you go, "A-ha! Of course!" After two hours with 'Maze', I never had that feeling. I still made what seemed like arbitrary, any-choice-works decisions.

Brilliant and beautiful. Exceptionally difficult but well worth the time and mind power used to solve this puzzle.

Mentioned by Reif Larson in an essay for The Late American Novel. A non-linear adventure of sorts.