Math

This intricate maze connects the dots on quasicrystal surfaces

Called a Hamiltonian cycle, the winding loop touches every point without crossing itself

A snowflake-shaped collecting of winding and looping black lines on a white background, resembling a dense maze

This maze of spirals and spikes is a path that touches every vertex in an Ammann-Beenker tiling without crossing itself. The tiles are omitted for clarity.

S. Singh, J. Lloyd and F. Flicker/Physical Review X 2024

By Skyler Ware

This maze of jagged curls looks like something out of the world’s hardest puzzle book. How fast do you think you can solve it?

Stuck? Don’t worry.