You can hardly believe it! At last, your long dream has come true and you are standing in front of Battenburg Castle. You've been longing for this moment to explore this famous labyrinth!
For months, you have suspected that there is more to these walls than meets the eye: an intricate network of corridors, always exactly one step wide and separated by walls that are precisely the same width. Too precise for this maze to have had no other purpose. But no one has ever been able to discover an exit from the corridors.
‘Well, until today,’ you mumble as you enter the maze through the archway. The walls, which seem to close in around you, cast a grey shadow on the path in front of you. The interplay with the green, moss-covered walls creates an oppressive picture.
You find it noticeably difficult to overcome yourself, but you have a fixed goal: there are several two-faced idols in the maze. Whenever two corridors are about to meet, one of these statues, surrounded by two walls, blocks the way. Always positioned at the corners between two corridors, they seem to be torn as to which of the corridors they should plunge into.
You quickly find the first statues and begin to compare the two faces of the individual figures. A time-consuming endeavour, as the path from one side of a statue to the opposite side seems to become longer and longer with each statue you visit.
Suddenly your steps quicken. ‘That's it!’Your mind races as you run through the corridors, walking past one statue after another.
7-steps; 9-steps; 11-steps; 13-steps; ...
Your steps continue to accelerate, while your mind and concentration seem to equally slip away from you. When you finally slump down tiredly, you are no longer sure how long you have been travelling in the maze. But one thing is certain, this is the last statue. Exhausted, you look back the way you just came. You should know how many more steps lie ahead of you, until you have unravelled the mystery of Battenburg Castle, but you can no longer concentrate and you are overcome by fatigue.
With the last of your strength, you open the map you had intended to make and realise that you had only marked the positions of the first two statues before your thirst for action overcame you.
Tired, you try to retrace your steps, but you only manage to remember the positions of the last three statues you visited before your eyes finally fall shut.
You don't know how long you slept when you finally open your eyes. Furthermore there's something you're sure of, that is way more important: You have no idea where you are or how to get out of these tunnels. You look at the markings on your map. Could this be enough to reconstruct the labyrinth?