instructions for my maze production system

begin by placing two blue dots and two yellow dots anywhere on the page. dots of the same color can't touch. connect the blue dot and the yellow dot.

get a new page and place it directly over the first page such that you can see the previous page's blue line through your new sheet. trace this line. in a gestural fashion, trace around this new blue line in yellow, staying approximately 1/4 inch away from the blue line all the way around, and making a yellow line approximately 1/4 inch thick.

now make 10 red circles anywhere within the 1/4 inch thick yellow line. next to each red circle, draw two red lines perpendicular to the blue line -- these two red lines should be approximately 1/2 inch apart from each other.

now trace the 1/4 inch thick yellow line with a red pencil (this red line should not be 1/4 inch thick, but rather just the width of the pencil lead) but do not trace in the 1/2 inch space between the red lines perpendicular to the blue line.

next, make 180 blue dots (one dot per graph paper square) that are either adjacent to (branching from) the 1/2 inch separations between the red lines perpendicular to the blue line or adjacent to a previous blue dot. these blue dots must connect to at least three perpendicular red line separations. they can meander anywhere on the paper so long as a continuous string of blue dots is maintained and the dots never pass over a red line.

connect at least three 1/2 inch red line separations by making paths in this fashion: demarcate 'path squares' by placing a red 'X' in each square adjacent to the 'path square' other than those squares that will also be in the 'path' (so, if you wanted the 'path' to move to the right 10 squares, you would have a horizontal line of 10 red X's, a horizontal line of 10 blank squares, and then another horizontal line of 10 red X's).

get a new sheet of paper. place this new sheet over the second sheet. using a red pencil, trace the red line following the yellow line, trace the 1/2 inch separation red lines (not the red circles next to them), trace the general path of the red X's with lines the width of the pencil lead, and trace the 'outside' of the 'path' made by the blue dots. this will have constructed a maze.

place a blue dot on this new sheet at either end of the blue line on the sheet beneath. connect these two blue dots in any fashion so long as the new blue line remains within the new red maze. place two yellow dots anywhere within the maze, and connect these dots along any path within the maze.

get yet another sheet of paper, trace the blue line and the yellow line. this begins the entire process over again.