Mazes With One-way Doors
A maze with one-way doors is more challenging for a person to find their way through, especially when most doors lead away from the exit. If simply picking doors at random, a person in such a maze can expect to try an exponential number of doors to find the exit. Even if a person draws a map while searching the maze, it can still require a quadratic number of doors to discover the exit. One claimed quadratic worst case algorithm is described here: .
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