Recently visited Caine's Arcade in Boyle Heights with my son who volunteered to help for a couple of hours. This is a small video of Caine's first try at a home-made cardboard labyrinth game donated by guest game maker, Marc Humpert, who was also volunteering.
First, the game is great and the kids and adults swarmed around it right away. Like a usual tilt labyrinth game the cardboard moves on two axes. Because of the length of the box it's a little difficult to grab both handles for little kid arms. But it's made so that tilting forward and back and right and left can be done by the main handle. One handle can control the entire labyrinth. That's what you see Caine doing.
Second, the game play was challenging but can be conquered after a five or six tries. Caine asked to make the game harder so the game creator, Marc Humpert, cut out a few more holes where Caine pointed and made the path more difficult.
An added feature of the game is an interchangeable game/maze board. The maze lifts out of the frame and can be replaced with different mazes - ingenious for a game made from pieces of discarded cardboard. It reminds me of the labyrinth game I played when I was younger.
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