Circle Puzzles

I have a school project due, basicly its a board game design project. My group is broken up into 4 people and I am in charge of the actual board. I was interested in doing a circle puzzle like the one's on the back of the cerial boxes. My question is, does anyone know what those puzzles are called? Are there generator's for those puzzles? I basicly need a circle puzzle with 4 ways to get in and 4 ways to the center, with other pathways leading to dead ends.

Can anyone help me?

Sounds like you're talking about a maze :)

There's lots of generators for those online.

Good luck!

I don't know about cereal boxes, but it sounds like you may be referring to a Labyrinth (which is really just a special type of maze).

Chip

What's the difference between a maze and a labyrinth then?

- René Wiersma

I was curious too - apparently a labyrinth has a single path that goes towards the centre (and is usually circular), and a maze has false passages and dead ends.

More info (plus some really cool mazes) can be found here:

http://www.amazeingart.com/media-contact/mazes-labyrinths-faq.html

I'm not sure how you could make a game out of this, though, but maybe divide the maze into a grid, and have some kind of movement point system? Or like ricochet robot, where people all look at the board and try to solve it as fast as they can, and the first person who thinks they have a solution hits a buzzer or something and tries to solve it?