Maze Vocabulary

What is Backtracking for a maze?

• This means retracing your steps or marble roll. You have to backtrack when you reach a dead end.

• Walk backwards on the road

• Walking with your back turned

Blind Alley

• Walking through a maze with eyes closed

• An alley that has an opening

• This is a path that leads nowhere and you must backtrack to another path.

Bumper in a Marble Maze

• An object used on a car

• Go-carts use them to ride through

• Something that the marble can run into that will alter its rolling path

What is a Corn Maze?

• A human size maze made in a cornfield

• A maze in created on minecraft

• A corn that looks like a maze

Dead End

• The end of a street

• Entered a path that leads nowhere and just ends. You have to backtrack and take a different path.

• A path of a maze that has five different endings

What is a junction in a Marble Maze?

• Pathways that intersect at a highway

• Pathways that separate in a maze

• Several pathways that come together in a maze

What is Labyrinth?

• A maze with a single path

• A maze with a double path in the grass

• A spot in the grass that creates a maze look

What is a Maze?

• A puzzle with legos and popsicle sticks

• A puzzle with many pieces

• A puzzle using paths that connect, cross each other, and lead from a starting point to an ending point.

Obstruction in a Marble Maze

• Anything that blocks a path of a maze. Also called a bumper.

• A piece of material in the maze

• A maze with items that is blocking it

Passageway or Pathway

• A path on the sidewalk in the park

• A path on which you walk, travel, or roll in order to solve a maze

• A way under water to a maze