For entertaining puzzle mazes, mown turf or meadow may be the way to go, to keep up the confusion level. “It can change every year,” Pelkonen says. Originally Published: May 15, 2005 at 1:00 ...

It takes a surprisingly short time to make a fiendishly clever maze. The Lyman’s maze this year took two and a half hours. Like anything else, Bench says, it gets easier the more times you do it.

1. Make a small hole in the short side of a long cardboard box, such as a shoe box. 2. With an adult’s help, cut out several pieces of cardboard and stick them inside of the box to make a maze ...

For the Basse corn maze, there’s an added element to navigating your way through the maze that tests your group’s knowledge. “What we do with our maze is we make a trivia-based game.

Multiple mazes within the 6-acre field are cut into animal shapes such as snakes, lizards and frogs. Scavenger hunters answer questions on paper and collect 9 animal rub-offs to solve a word puzzle.

Making a corn maze might seem simple: Grow a field of corn and cut out everything that isn’t part of the maze. Most farms stick with geometric shapes and simple pictures.

The family-run La Union Maze, 1101 Highway 28, is ready for its 24th season starting on Saturday, Sept. 23, and lasting through Nov. 5.

Take an exclusive look inside “The Shining” haunted maze coming to Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood.