2024 Maze of the Week Review

I wanted to give everyone an overview of all the mazes of the week that were featured on the site this year (#’s 105-157). If you want to see all of the mazes of the week, here are my previous compilations of them:

Mazes of the Week 1 - 52 - A Review of 2022's mazes

Mazes of the Week 53 - 104 - A Review of 2023's mazes

Other related year end content (links added as they are posted):

My top 5 YouTube Videos from 2024

My 10 biggest blog posts of the year

My 2024 Year in Review

My favorite mazes from 2024 - VOTE

My 2025 Website Outlook

Some statistics about the 52 mazes I featured this year:

• All mazes were done in comic book style, the theme for the year.

• It includes 39 animal mazes, 11 character mazes, and 3 insect mazes. Of those animals it includes 6 birds, 4 aquatic animals and 3 dogs.

• Each maze except the dragon maze included a color or design variation for a total of 104 total mazes. The dragon maze instead had 2 color variations without a maze, but the Bulldog maze had 3 colors so we still get 104 mazes !

• All mazes are stored in the comic style section of the site, which includes some of the early comic book mazes from 2023. Downloads of each maze are available there.

• Each maze was made into a themed comic book cover that can be seen in the comic book cover section.

The Maze List (no links since they can all be found in one place !):

#105 Snowman

#106 Eagle

#107 Penguin

#108 Squirrel

#109 Groundhog

#110 Dinosaur

#111 Dragon

#112 Dog - Labrador

#113 Polar Bear

#114 Vampire

#115 Leprechaun

#116 Panther

#117 Bunny

#118 Spider

#119 Dolphin

#120 Dog- Bulldog

#121 Horse

#122 Frog

#123 Leopard

#124 Monarch Butterfly

#125 Turtle

#126 Therizinosaurus

#127 Bear

#128 Cow

#129 Crocodile

#130 Catfish

#131 Scarecrow

#132 Minotaur

#133 Shark

#134 Tiger

#135 Clown

#136 Owl

#137 Lion

#138 Honey Bee

#139 Dog - Yorkie Poo

#140 Samurai

#141 Warrior

#142 Rhino

#143 Koala

#144 Chicken

#145 Badger

#146 Wolf

#147 Mule

#148 La Catrina

#149 Bison

#150 Peacock

#151 Pirate

#152 Turkey

#153 Elk

#154 Llama

#155 Monkey

#156 Gingerbread Man

#157 Quokka

Comic Book Annual and Free Comic Book Maze Book !

To conclude the year I wanted to pull together all 53 of my maze book covers and I am happy to announce the free downloadable book, Mazequerade. It is every maze comic cover from the year plus a new annual issue, The Festive 4. The Festive 4 features 6 of my holiday mazes pulled together, a typical holiday team-up. We have 4 heroes/heroines taking on our 2 baddies. I did not design the cover so the mazes could be solved (check out the individual mazes for that). Here is the cover (also the last page in the book!):

The background was done using starryai.

To receive a free copy of the full book Mazequerade, fill out the form below and send me your name, email and sign-up for at least one type of book launch alert, then I will email you a copy of the book ! I also want to mention that I changed 8 comic book covers to be more kid friendly.

To see all of the comic book cover mazes check out that section of the website !

5 of the World's Largest Winter Mazes

I wanted to feature 5 wonderful Winter mazes that are here for the Holidays ! 4 of them are the largest of it’s type (with an asterix), and are made as destination attractions to celebrate the holidays. It includes a set of 3 from around the USA, a festival in Minnesota, a festival in Washington, an event in Pittsburgh, while the last takes us overseas to Poland.

The first mazes are the Largest Christmas Light Maze(s) in the world, created by Enchant. This year Enchant has 3 locations: San Jose, CA; Seattle, WA; and Las Vegas, NV. Each location features winter fun, including the featured light maze, an ice skating rink and a Christmas market along with other activities (Santa?) and days with special events. You can check the calendar and buy tickets on the Enchant website. This experience moves around the country each year, so you may have seen it near you in the past (or have it coming to a large city near you in the future). Here is a video from the Enchant YouTube channel showing the event ! It looks like a fun night out with an immersive Christmas experience.

And the second Winter maze I wanted to bring to your attention comes from Poland, the World’s Largest Ice Maze (for now) located in Snowlandia in Zakopane. I had written about it previously as one of the 5 ice and snow mazes I found around the world: You Won't Believe these Ice and Snow Mazes ! The maze is outstanding, and seeing all of the intricate carvings in the snow is also well worth a visit with views of the beautiful Tatra Mountains ! The maze is listed as over 3000 square meters, or the size of about 7 basketball courts.

And you may have noticed the “for now” I added onto the Ice Maze at Snowlandia. That is because on January 10th, the record might be broken at the Minnesota Ice Festival in Eagan, MN. They will be attempting to make the break the current record and will have Guinness on hand (the company/book not the drink) to check it. Since it is not yet built and you never know about the weather, we will have to wait to see who holds the ice maze crown. Tickets for the event are on sale now and it includes the maze, skating, slides, food trucks, ice bars and plenty of ice sculptures. Here is a video showing the previous years maze:

But wait, we have another, coming to us from Shelton, Washington ! Let’s take a look at Christmastown and their Winter maze !

The world record for most Christmas Trees in one location (set in 2019) keeps getting bigger each year. And, it just so happens those Christmas trees are made into a maze ! This year a total of 900 trees became a maze. The great thing about the maze is the dead ends might lead you to Santa, places to play or selfie spots. But let’s be honest a dead end with Santa is not really a dead end ! Here is a link to the website and the maze page specifically. Check out this wonderful video of the event and maze !

Although not a record holder, Pittsburgh celebrates the New Year with it’s 31st annual First Night celebration which includes fireworks, a parade, puppets, dancing and musical entertainment to highlight the festivities. But the reason I share it with you here is it will also contain an ice maze this year that pays tribute to the state of Pennsylvania ! The maze is being made (with chainsaws!) by Ice Creations and you can see it being made in this YouTube video starting at about 1:20.

So did these mazes make your bucket list ? Wishing you Happy and Healthy Holidays and hoping you can enjoy an a-maze-ing adventure like these!

More posts you may like:

The 10 Most Famous Labyrinths from Around the World

Discovering 7 of the World's Most Interesting Mazes

Free Holiday Mazes for Kids and Adults: Download and Enjoy!

Maze Comic Book Cover #53 - BMQ

Issue #53 in my comic book cover series is called BMQ. Check out every comic book cover maze !

That is the last comic book in the yearly series. I hope you enjoyed them ! Come back next week to see how you can get a free full maze book full of each maze from this year ! The book has some revisions to be more kid friendly, including this comic cover which will appear like this for the book: