Free printable mazes with answers
Five shapes, six sizes and a difficulty that is measured rather than guessed. Every maze prints with the solved route on the facing page, and every page you generate is a different maze.
By shape
The shape decides how a maze solves, not just how it looks. A hexagon gives every cell six sides instead of four, so the same size takes longer; a triangle gives three, so junctions are rare and you spend the time tracing.
Square mazes
Free printable square mazes with answers. Pick a size from a 7 by 7 grid to a 40 by 40, print the maze and the solved route. No sign-up.
Hexagonal mazes
Free printable hexagon mazes with answers. Six ways out of every cell, so the same size takes longer than a square maze. Print with the solution.
Triangular mazes
Free printable triangle mazes with answers. Three ways out of every cell, so junctions are rare and the corridors run diagonally. Print with the solution.
Circular mazes
Free printable circular mazes with answers. Rings cut into wedges, solved from the rim in to the middle. Print the maze and the solved route.
Picture shape mazes
Free printable mazes carved inside a shape: heart, star, moon, cat, tree and more. The silhouette is the picture. Print with the answer.
Picture shapes
A maze carved to fill an outline. The silhouette is the first thing anyone sees, which is why these are the ones that end up in cards and on classroom walls.
Heart mazes
Free printable heart maze with the answer. A maze carved inside a heart, in any size. Good for Valentine cards and classroom handouts. No sign-up.
Star mazes
Free printable star maze with the answer. A five-pointed star filled with a maze, in any size, with the solved route on page two. No sign-up.
Christmas tree mazes
Free printable Christmas tree maze with the answer. A maze carved inside a tree, in any size, ready for a classroom or a party. No sign-up.
Cat mazes
Free printable cat maze with the answer. A maze carved inside a cat head with ears, in any size, with the solution on page two. No sign-up.
Crescent moon mazes
Free printable crescent moon maze with the answer. A maze carved inside a crescent, in any size, with the solved route on page two. No sign-up.
Flower mazes
Free printable flower maze with the answer. Five petals filled with a maze, in any size, with the solved route on the facing page. No sign-up.
Easter egg mazes
Free printable Easter egg maze with the answer. A maze carved inside an egg, any size, with the solved route on page two. No sign-up.
Lantern mazes
Free printable lantern maze with the answer. A maze carved inside a lantern, any size, with the solved route on page two. No sign-up.
Cross mazes
Free printable cross maze with the answer. Four arms meeting at a centre, filled with a maze, any size, with the route on page two. No sign-up.
Mazes for the holidays
A themed maze gets printed a class at a time, on a calendar you can plan against. Each holiday opens the picture shape that suits it, with the solved route on the facing page.
Valentine's Day
A heart maze for a card or a class handout in February.
Easter
An egg maze for a spring party or an egg hunt.
Halloween
A cat maze whose ears trap a solver working top-down.
Christmas
A tree maze for the one month a maze gets printed thirty times at once.
Ramadan and Eid
A crescent moon maze that solves more like a long tunnel than a grid.
Diwali and autumn
A lantern maze for the festivals of light.
By age and difficulty
Size matters more than any other setting for a child, and for an adult it is the route length and how deep a wrong turn runs. Both are measured on every page.
Easy mazes
Free printable easy mazes with answers. Small grids with the dead ends opened up, so a wrong turn rejoins the path instead of stopping. No sign-up.
Mazes for kids
Free printable mazes for kids with answers. Pick an age band from 3 to 10, print the maze and the solved route. No sign-up, no watermark.
Hard mazes
Free printable hard mazes with answers. Large grids, every dead end kept, and a route measured to make sure it crosses the page. No sign-up.
Giant mazes
Free printable giant mazes with answers. A 40 by 40 grid, 1,600 cells, and a route that crosses most of them. Prints on one page. No sign-up.
Large print mazes
Free printable large print mazes with answers. Thick walls and wide corridors rather than bigger type, for older eyes and younger hands. No sign-up.
For a particular job
Mazes for preschoolers
Free printable mazes for preschoolers. Wide corridors, no dead ends and a faint guide grid, sized for a crayon and a three-year-old. No sign-up.
Mazes for adults
Free printable mazes for adults with answers. Big grids, every dead end kept, hexagonal and circular shapes. Twenty minutes a page. No sign-up.
Printable mazes for the classroom
Free printable mazes for teachers, with answers. Generate a different maze per child at the same difficulty, print, no sign-up and no watermark.
Collect the stars mazes
Free printable mazes where the route has to pass through every star. A real variant, not a decoration, with the full route on page two. No sign-up.
Coding path mazes
Free printable code the robot mazes with answers. Write the arrows that move the robot from start to finish. For early coders. No sign-up.
The six sizes
- TinyAges 3–5
- 7 by 7 squares, or about as many cells in any other shape.
- SmallAges 5–7
- 11 by 11 squares, or about as many cells in any other shape.
- MediumAges 7–10
- 16 by 16 squares, or about as many cells in any other shape.
- LargeAges 10+
- 22 by 22 squares, or about as many cells in any other shape.
- HugeAdults
- 30 by 30 squares, or about as many cells in any other shape.
- GiantEnthusiasts
- 40 by 40 squares, or about as many cells in any other shape.
How each shape solves
four ways out of every junction
Rectangular
A grid of squares with walls between them, an arrow going in at one corner and an arrow coming out at another.
- How it solves
- Each junction offers at most three ways on from the one you arrived by, so the choices stay countable and a wrong turn is quick to spot. It is the shape everyone pictures, and the one to start a child on.
- Good for
- Everyone. The default, and the easiest to read at any size.
six ways out of every cell
Hexagonal
A honeycomb of six-sided cells. The corridors run in six directions rather than four, so the paths slant as well as turn.
- How it solves
- With six sides per cell a junction can offer five ways on instead of three, so a hexagonal maze of the same size takes longer than a square one. Your eye also has no straight lines to follow, which is most of why it feels harder.
- Good for
- Adults and older children who have run out of square mazes.
three ways out of every cell
Triangular
Triangles pointing up and down in alternating rows, so the corridors run diagonally across the page.
- How it solves
- Three sides per cell means junctions are rare: most of the time there is one way on and you follow it. That makes a triangular maze less about choosing and more about tracing, which is a different pleasure rather than a lesser one.
- Good for
- A change of pace, and the most distinctive page in a variety book.
four ways out, but two of them curve
Circular
Concentric rings cut into wedges, with a gap in the outer rim to enter by and a small circle at the middle to reach.
- How it solves
- You are working inward rather than across, so progress is measured in rings rather than distance. The rings subdivide as they go out, which keeps the outer corridors a readable width instead of letting them open into caverns.
- Good for
- Anyone who wants a maze that looks like a labyrinth rather than a grid.
four ways out, inside an outline
Picture shape
A square-grid maze carved to fill a silhouette: a heart, a star, a crescent moon, a cat, a tree.
- How it solves
- It solves like a square maze, but the outline does half the work for you. A corridor that runs into the tip of a star has nowhere to go, so the shape itself rules out whole branches once you learn to read it.
- Good for
- Cards, classroom handouts and anything that has to look like a gift.
Make one now
Pick a shape, a size and how hard it should be, then print the maze and its answer. No sign-up, no watermark.