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New Maze-a-Pix puzzles get hot reviewsTuesday, September 7, 2004
MAP (Maze-a-Pix), the new maze puzzles announced by Conceptis in June 2004, are already receiving hot reviews from Conceptis publishers and puzzle fans. Since their announcement just three months ago, MAP puzzles are already appearing in several magazines worldwide. Topping the list is Domo Group in Brazil, with a dedicated monthly MAP magazine named ArtLabirinto. Other names on the list are Puzzler Media Ltd. in the UK, Games Publishing in the USA, Sanoma Uitgevers in the Netherlands, Oyunevi in Turkey, and IQ Press in Hungary. According to Dave Green, president of Conceptis, more Conceptis publishers are planning to publish MAP puzzles in their magazines later this year and in early 2005. "Altogether," says Green, "we expect that all Conceptis publishers will be publishing MAP puzzles on a regular basis by the end of 2005." Moreover, it is not just the international publishing community that warmly adopts this new maze concept. Conceptis’ MAP puzzles have also received extremely good reviews from the online puzzle community in the company's Weekly Puzzle Review website section. The first MAP puzzle to be reviewed in this section was No. 940001, a MAP MegaPuzzle with a picture of tourists standing against London Bridge. Overall this puzzle was great fun for most of the solvers, moderately easy to solve and with an excellent picture. 71% of the solvers said that the puzzle was Fantastic or Great Fun, while 19% responded that the puzzle was Medium Fun and only 10% commented that the puzzle was No Fun at all. A-mazingThe average puzzle difficulty was rated as moderate, with no one claiming it was Easy, 62% saying it was Moderate, 33% finding it Challenging and 5% commenting that the puzzle was Too Difficult to solve. The average results about the picture quality were excellent, with 95% of the solvers voting that the picture was Excellent or Good, and 5% finding it Moderate. No one said that the picture quality was Poor. Some reviewers liked the new concept immediately. B Pierpont from New Jersey, USA described the new concept as "A-mazing" and added "I ended up filling in the dead ends to find the correct path". Corné van Rensburg from Pretoria, South Africa said, "I knew I'd like the BIG MAPs. I loved this one… It was fun to do the big MAP with a good picture, because the feeling of accomplishment is so much greater. Thanx". Other reviewers had somewhat lower expectations from a maze puzzle but were surprised by the challenge, the fun, the fact that a maze can actually form a picture and by the picture quality. Melissa Lamp from Missouri, USA admitted that she "Haven't done a large maze in a long time" but that this one kept her going because she could see the picture being formed and graded it as "Good fun, and actually harder than I would have thought!". Kathrin Messerschmid from Friedrichshafen, Germany saw "a group of tourists in front of the tower bridge" and added, "First I thought, I didn't like this sort of puzzle but then I really enjoyed solving it!" and Silvia Ripoll from Barcelona, Spain saw a "Nice picture of a family next to the London Bridge" said "Wow" and mentioned that it was "harder that it seems!". Neale Foster, from Richmond, USA liked the "Beautiful picture of tourists and the tower of London" as well as the "extreme detail and fluidity in these maze pictures" and added that although she "just don't enjoy them that much" she has a nephew who does so she asked to "keep them coming". Related resources |
