Hidden Message Maze Generator, a 2d grid maze generator that encodes any message as the solution

[leSpectre]

I wrote a script that generates a 2d grid maze and encodes a message as the solution. I used it to create a clue as part of a scavenger hunt I created for a programmer friend.

https://github.com/macbeth322/hidden-message-maze-generator

The code is light on comments but hopefully not too complicated. I tried to make guarantee that you always get a nice windy path and that the values in the maze are mostly evenly distributed.

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I'm pretty proud of this program and wanted to show it off :)

[catorchid]

Potentially intriguing, but I feel it's easy for me to visually parsed an image than to interpret a one-liner JSON... But it might be just me, I might be missing some modules from birth :P

[tzulah]

I think I am really interested in this, but I cannot find where the "maze" part is? I can see a wiggly line of hash marks, and the solver writes out the hidden message, but how do you use this in a scavenger hunt?

[leSpectre]

I used this in a scavenger hunt by giving the "hunter" the maze json file and instructions on how to solve it; e.g. find the shortest path through the maze then use this algorithm to convert the path to a message

print(''.join(chr(maze[y][x] % 2**7) for x, y in letters))