Hasta La Gadget!

Brits are using their iPhones to cheat their way out of hedge mazes, cracking the hour-and-a-half long puzzles in just minutes.

The maze at Longleat Safari Park, Wiltshire, England has – according to the Daily Mail – two miles of pathways formed by 16,000 yew trees. Normally this confusing and frustrating labyrinth takes around 90 minutes to escape, but when manager Tim Bentley took a walk around inside he found that lazy, impatient patrons were using GPS and satellite images to negotiate the 7-foot high pathways.

But using Google Earth to navigate a maze seems stupid. Isn’t the whole point of a maze to get lost and try to avoid dead ends as you slowly creep towards the exit? As my mother never tired of telling me, you’re only cheating yourself. It’s like buying a delicious cake and then getting somebody else to eat it for you, or following a walk-through guide to a video game.

On the other hand, we see stories almost weekly about idiots who follow their GPS into sticky or dangerous situations. Perhaps Longleat could add shifting hedge walls, or better, add piranha pits and crocodiles. Try using your iPhone to beat that.

IPhone cheats crack Britain’s biggest hedge maze in minutes [Mail]

Photo: Andrew/Flickr

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• GPS Users Still Lost in the Woods
• GPS Causes 300000 Brits to Crash

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