Actually, I thought about it again and I think you’re right. If they always take right turns, or in other words, trace their hands along the right wall and never let their hand leave the wall, then they’ll never enter a loop in the first place.
A loop implies an “island” in the maze. Following the right-hand rule, you might go around the island. But to get stuck in the loop, you would have to have your right hand along the wall of the island, and naturally since it’s an island, to put your wall on the island in the first place requires taking your hand off the wall you were originally tracing, breaking the right-hand rule.
However importantly they have to follow the rule from the very beginning. So you can’t just initiate in the middle, like the rats might do in OP’s comic.
Actually, I thought about it again and I think you’re right. If they always take right turns, or in other words, trace their hands along the right wall and never let their hand leave the wall, then they’ll never enter a loop in the first place.
A loop implies an “island” in the maze. Following the right-hand rule, you might go around the island. But to get stuck in the loop, you would have to have your right hand along the wall of the island, and naturally since it’s an island, to put your wall on the island in the first place requires taking your hand off the wall you were originally tracing, breaking the right-hand rule.
However importantly they have to follow the rule from the very beginning. So you can’t just initiate in the middle, like the rats might do in OP’s comic.