Awesome Mazes

There are lots of different kinds of races, from cars to dirt bikes to hovercrafts. In this short video, a full rack of pool balls race their way up an elevator and through a twisty downhill course. Which ball will take the checkered flag? Place your bets now! Find more footage of the track in action on supper J’s TikTok channel.

After seeing a digital simulation of water being poured into a vertical maze and finding its way to the exit, science educator Steve Mould wanted to see if he could replicate the experiment in the real world. It’s interesting to see how maze complexity affects the way the water flows.

Intrism is back with a smaller version of their wooden maze puzzle-in-a-cube. The 3D labyrinth comes in kit form, with 130 pieces of laser-cut wood and a clear acrylic shell. Once assembled, you’ll spend hours guiding its marble through twists and turns and 50 obstacles. Measures 6″x6″x6″.

LittleBall Creations makes beautiful marble mazes from bent and soldered copper wire. Here, they show off one of their self-contained mazes that sits inside of a cube. The marble rolls from one end of the track to the other when the cube is flipped over. If you’re interested in buying their work, contact them on Facebook.

Scott’s Marble Runs shows off a truly impressive build that start outside of his house, then winds its way inside through countless bends and turns. It takes a full six minutes for a marble to complete the entire course, which he built using Quercetti Skyrail marble tracks.

This version of the classic circular maze toy is made from cast brass or titanium alloy instead of plastic. It measures 48mm (appx. 1.89″) in diameter and it comes with three ceramic beads inside to roll through its corridors. A great desk toy for fidgeters.

There’s something so satisfying about watching marbles roll around in mazes. B-dama Friend’s YouTube channel is filled with dozens of fun marble machines made mostly out of cardboard. Each one is loaded with ramps, spirals, funnels, and more. Our current faves are number 37, number 24, and number 32.

Maze expert Sean C. Jackson created 30 intricate mazes for fellow Star Wars fans to enjoy. Locations include the forests of Endor, Jabba’s Palace, the rocky cliffs of Ahch-To, and the corridors of the Death Star. In addition to winding your way through the mazes, each illustration contains a Where’s Waldo-style challenge.

We love Acoustic Trench’s soothing kalimba cover of Can’t Help Falling in Love. With the help of Cinema 4D and OctaneRender, motion designers TheCritters created a photorealistic CG marble maze that syncs up perfectly with the tune. We can only imagine how much work it took to get everything to line up perfectly.

To find inner peace, it can be helpful to wander through a labyrinth. But if you don’t have access to a life-size maze, grab one of iSpiritual’s mini labyrinths. Each one is carved from bamboo or walnut wood, and comes with a matching stylus to wind through its corridors. They come in 3.5″, 4″, and 7″ versions.

Captain Hamster built this amazing hamster maze, which incorporates a variety of puzzles inspired by the Portal series. Each of its chambers allows its test subject to escape after it takes a spin on a hamster wheel or completes a series of tasks. This time, the cake was not a lie.

These wooden stash boxes are perfect for hiding away small items. At their center is a metal tube with a peg that must be moved through a series of twists and turns in order to unlock its contents. Available in natural or cherry-stained birch wood.

One of the most entertaining things to do with a pet hamster is to set it loose in some kind of a maze. Using LEGO Duplo bricks, The Secret Life of my Hamster built a wonderfully colorful and complex obstacle course, and then let their fluffy white pet Marshmallow take it for a spin.

Marble fanatic Jelle’s latest build is an impressively complicated marble run that was inspired by theme parks. It features 30 “attractions,” with lots of twists, turns, loops, tunnels, and more. Any given marble can take up to 3 minutes to work its way through all of the rides.

Marble and domino master Kaplamino made this short and fast-paced marble maze with the help of rubber bands. He says he failed around 40 times because of the unpredictable nature of the rubber bands, but the result is more than worth it.

DoodleChaos made budget versions of basketball trick shots using wood, marbles, string and other small objects. It starts out simple, but quickly becomes more and more complex. The ball bouncing on the rolling cylinder was nuts.