Tessellating Alphabet Mazes for Kids

Tessellating Alphabet Mazes for Kids is now available on Amazon.

 Most of the mazes are based on letter tessellation patterns that were used in Puzzling Typography and Puzzling Typography A Sequel, books that were intended for an older audience. The mazes in Tessellating Alphabet Mazes for Kids are much simpler.

However, there are a few new shapes and patterns used in the book, shapes and patterns that were not used in previous books. Here is one of two new letter C shapes.

This way of forming the upper-case D was elementary but had not previously been used.

This new letter G shape is a bit odd but it forms a very nice pattern for a maze.

The three pictures above are of actual pages from the book. The way the mazes are displayed on top of a grayed image of the letter is the same as that used in the Puzzling Typography books. Arrows indicating the exits are included.

The shapes used in Tessellating Alphabet Mazes for Kids were of the upper-case letters. There are no solutions included, so the book contains over 100 pages of mazes, enough to keep a child busy for a long time even though the mazes are not very difficult. Letters that a hard to tessellate, such as K, R, O, and Q, only get one page, while letters that are easier to tessellate get more pages. The letter L is by far the easiest to tessellate in many ways, so it gets more pages than any other letter.

The book is intended to appeal to children in the early primary grades.