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I had a middle school friend who was a great artist, but also he drew mazes. "Brain mazes" he called them, because of the noodly look.

Anyway, I always wondered how he could do it. To me he was just drawing lines everywhere, but there would eventually be a complete maze with only one solution.

Maybe it was a memorized algo--like a party trick basically.

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That's a fun name. I used to draw sort of noodly-ish mazes as a kid, too, though they didn't always have a unique path as there could be branch loops. Did they look at all like this 7 minute mouse drawing version? https://imgur.com/a/lat8S6N There's no fancy process to it, though. I can picture a much more impressive maze deserving of the "brain maze" name.

I used to doodle mazes very much like this in middle and high school, and the images in this story immediately reminded me of them

I have this one I made in high school, with a little RPG style game to go with it: https://imgur.com/a/3XpM11z

These weren't hard to make as you just built out from the start and added random branches, or dead ended them occasionally.

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