REVOMAZE User Group

Thanks for the info. Another question about mapping with a coin: suppose I start mapping my blue revomaze again using your technique. The first path off of the start ring I measured to be 9 mm long. Would I put the edge of the dime or the centre of the dime at 9 mm on my map?

.

Prodigy solving a Revomaze

What's the recommended way to map a V2 maze?
I've got a V1 bronze, and green obsession and can do the usual ruler around the sleeve and arrow on the hex core.

But I can't put anything on the sleeve of my blue V2 because of the shape.

Any ideas?

Here is my mapping setup!

It's a very simple 3D printed jig in two parts kept together with electrician's tape (this could be improved with adjustable screws, I assembled it this way thinking it was a first prototype but then it held together so well that I used it to solve all my Revos).

It can hold pens or pencils, even though it is designed for a pencil (the hexagonal section type) because I found that pens tend to smudge and dampen the paper with ink when passing over the same spots many times.

There is no need to hold the Revo on a support, as the whole setup can be held quite comfortably in the hands and played...

There is obviously room for improvement (i could round off the lower edges of the pencil holding arm yo avoid it catching the edge of the graph paper for example), but I am quite happy of the way it works

I'll now post the maps produced with this method in all open sections of the mazes I have opened.. I also have a small video of how to use it after solving as a "maze-runner" aid, if I find a way to upload it I'll post it in the blue open forum.

Given that the diameter of the sleeve is roughly double the diameter of the core, the maps have a 1:1 scale in the axis parallel to the core, and a 2:1 scale in the axis perpendicular to the core, they are "stretched"...

Once solved, the maps represent the maze quite well, one point of attention while solving is that you are mapping keeping the sleeve still and moving the core, so you are not actually mapping the movement of the pin in the maze, but of the maze around the pin. This has a small side effect when trying to solve mazes where some external aspects of physics come into play, as you have to think "mirrored". In my opinion, sort of adds to the fun...

Enough talk, here's how it looks!

Might as well order the puzzles disassembled

That's why I don't usually start using it right away... I try to mentally or conceptually map the static parts of each maze firet not to lose that part of the fun..
Then, once I get to thinking time, I throw the mapper on the maze and that helps me get consistent while I try to figure out the tricks to beat!

Now make on for the R2 puzzles

First step would be owning an R2 puzzle.....

Will do my best