From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.

From Mazes and Labyrinths by William Henry Matthews, 1922.

From Purple Parrot, 1929.

From Mazes and Labyrinths by William Henry Matthews, 1922.

From Franz Kafka's The Castle.

From Mazes and Labyrinths by William Henry Matthews, 1922.

From Mazes and Labyrinths by William Henry Matthews, 1922.

From Mazes and Labyrinths by William Henry Matthews, 1922.

From Mazes and Labyrinths by William Henry Matthews, 1922.

From Mazes and Labyrinths by William Henry Matthews, 1922.

"The Patience Labyrinth."  From Toike Oike, 1940.

Here's why the tow truck takes so long to arrive.  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1957.

From Texas Instruments' A-Maze-ing user's manual, 1980.

From Texas Instruments' A-Maze-ing user's manual, 1980.

Adjusting for inflation, that's more like $131,000 for getting him out of the maze.  From The Popular Magazine, 1930.

The original alien crop circles were garden labyrinths.  From Mazes and Labyrinths by William Henry Matthews, 1922.

Two years before the debut of Pac-Man, we had this cover of the Biology Teachers' Handbook (1978).

"The only way forward is to find a path that starts in the middle."  From The Amazing Book of Mazes by Adrian Fisher. 

If you've heard of rodent mazes but didn't know how they were arranged, here's one that features four blind alleys to its one exit.  From The Dancing Mouse by Robert Yerkes, 1907.

A labyrinth from Millikin's 1977 yearbook.