We had 12 months of voting to determine the best mazes from each month and now with the help of my voters (thank you!) we have determined the best of the best. In my year in review post I thought that the winner may not come from previous months 1st place finishers as new voters come and go, and I was right.

Below is a snapshot of the top 3 vote getters for each month from 2019 which were eligible for voting. If you prefer to see full size versions of those mazes, I have that covered too where you can download each maze for free. It is a nice variety of mazes from both kids and adults with lots of unique mazes you won’t find anywhere else.

Let’s look at our top 5 mazes as voted on be you ! Click on any picture to download a pdf of the maze to print and solve !

#5 Bacon Maze

Posted on December 30 to celebrate National Bacon Day. One of the first mazes I posted on the site, it originally was voted 3rd place in January. One of the few mazes that uses a free hand construction.

#4 Cheeseburger Maze

The winning maze from September, the cheeseburger maze was posted to celebrate National Cheeseburger Day on September 18. This is a Beyond Meat Burger.

#3 Food Truck Maze

You don’t see many food truck mazes, but this monthly winner from June seems to be a favorite. Posted June 28, 2019 for National Food Truck Day. I think it has a great menu.

#2 Crushed Can Maze

Seemingly out of nowhere, the crushed can maze, previously 2nd place in January gets some ballot stuffing and comes in 2nd place for all of 2019 ! Published January 24, 2019 to celebrate Beer Can Appreciation Day. I actually posted 2 mazes this day, one a crushed can and the other fully intact. Obviously we know what everyone preferred.

And the maze of the year for 2019 is….

#1 King Tut Maze

Coming in a close 2nd in November, the King Tut maze got the most votes for 2019. Posted November 4, 2019 for King Tut Day I think it is a worthy winner. I have re-worked the maze to be larger and more difficult if you like the way this looks !

If you stumbled upon this page looking for cool mazes but want something more like “maze art”, I have plenty of new mazes I have made since 2019 on the home page, like famous buildings The Louvre, the Rock n Roll HOF, and the Sydney Opera House! You can even watch mazes being made on my YouTube channel.

To see what the future looks like (and it is much better check out this post for 2022 MOTY:

2022 Maze of the Year Voting Results

We had 12 months of voting to determine the best mazes each month and now we have voting to determine the best of the best here. The interesting thing is as new people discover and vote, mazes that came in 2nd or 3rd place one month might just come in 1st overall for the year ! new voters, new perspective.

Although some months had up to 8 best of mazes I thought I would take the time to look at the top 3 vote-getters from each month for the year. Those are the ones eligible for the final 2019 vote. Here is a snapshot of those mazes that I use on the voting page, but if you want to see full size, I made a section for the mazes

The Maze Subject

The most popular subject for winning mazes was animal mazes. with 8 placing out of 36 spots, including 4 monthly winners. If an animal maze is made well it tends to get a fair amount of voting support. Tied for most popular maze type is food/drink, also with 8 monthly spots, including a clean sweep of March. Food also had 2 monthly winners. The rest of the mazes have generally random categories, although there are 3 vehicles, 2 monetary, 2 clothing and 2 game mazes each.

The Maze Difficulty

My early daily mazes were definitely more difficult than later mazes I made. That is true for the mazes voted best of also. I would classify 19 of the mazes as medium difficulty, 12 as hard and only 6 as easy.

The Maze Type

A standard maze construction was used for 27 of the 36 mazes with no other construction being used more than twice. I use a standard construction for the majority of my mazes so this is not too much of a surprise. There were no escape mazes, or two way mazes, only mazes that started and ended on the border of the object. Only 1 maze, the Penguin maze did not start and end at the border of the picture.

The Maze Colors

The use of 4 colors or 2 colors for a maze were each used 9 times. Next in line was the use of 6 or more colors that was used 5 times. There were also 3 black and white mazes, so the majority, or 33 were color mazes. Overall the colorations are relatively muted colors in grays and browns, not many bright colors and some colors like purple, orange, and yellow are barely seen (and then only as accents).

The Picture Complexity

Here is where I think we have some consistency for the winners vs. non-winners, The mazes voted as the best of the month are generally more complex pictures, regardless of the maze inside. The Ace of Spades is probably the least complex structure but it is easily recognizable for what it is. Most everything else has some complexity to it.

In Summary

I don’t know if there are many conclusions from this other than people voted for pictures they liked that happen to contain mazes.

UPDATE : The votes were counted and here is where we landed:

NAVIGATING THE BEST MAZES OF 2019: THE VOTES ARE IN !

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