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https://cms.math.ca/crux/v26/n8/page533-533.pdf

University of Ljubljana electrical engineer Izidor Hafner devised this maze on a tetrahedron, presented as an unfolded plane plan. Can you find a path from one dot to the other? To do so you’ll have to fold up the figure in your head:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Triangular_Pyramid_(Tetrahedron).svg

SelectClick for Answer

https://cms.math.ca/crux/v26/n8/page533-533.pdf

(From Crux Mathematicorum, December 2000. See Hafner’s Wolfram Demonstrations page for mazes on cylinders, polyhedra, tori, Moebius strips, Riemann surfaces, and more.)

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