Puzzling World facts for kids
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| Founded | 1973 |
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| Founder | Stuart Landsborough |
| Headquarters | Wanaka, New Zealand |
Puzzling World is a tourist attraction near Wanaka, New Zealand. It began as a single storey maze in 1973, gradually expanding to become an award-winning complex of optical illusions and puzzling rooms and the world's first 3-D maze. Puzzling World is well known for its Leaning Tower of Wanaka and eccentric lavatory styled as a Roman bathroom. As of 2020 Puzzling World had received in excess of 4 million visitors and was attracting around a 200,000 people a year.
The SculptIllusion Gallery
A large gallery, opened in 2012, displays illusionary sculptures and architectural wonders, and showcases New Zealand sculptors and designers.
The sculptures include spinning tops and impossible objects, perspective paintings and reversible figures, a bench and a tap seemingly suspended in mid air, and stained glass windows with geometrical patterns.
The Leaning Tower of Wanaka
The Leaning Tower of Wanaka is, as the name implies, a tower that is seemingly impossibly balanced on one corner, making the whole structure lean at an angle of 53 degrees to the ground.
Images for kids
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A seemingly floating tap in the SculptIllusion Gallery
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The Leaning Tower appearing to balance precariously on one corner
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Following Faces Illusion Room
