--- title: "Printable mazes: free, with answers | Once Books" description: "Free printable mazes with answers. Square, hexagonal, triangular, circular and picture shapes, from a toddler grid to a 40 by 40. No sign-up." source: "https://www.oncebooks.com/maze" --- Free printables # 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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/square) — 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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/hexagonal) — 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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/triangular) — 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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/circular) — 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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/picture) — 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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/heart) — 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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/star) — 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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/christmas-tree) — 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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/cat) — 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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/moon) — 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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/flower) — 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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/easter-egg) — 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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/lantern) — 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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/cross) — 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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/heart) — A heart maze for a card or a class handout in February. - [Easter](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/easter-egg) — An egg maze for a spring party or an egg hunt. - [Halloween](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/cat) — A cat maze whose ears trap a solver working top-down. - [Christmas](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/christmas-tree) — A tree maze for the one month a maze gets printed thirty times at once. - [Ramadan and Eid](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/moon) — A crescent moon maze that solves more like a long tunnel than a grid. - [Diwali and autumn](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/lantern) — 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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/easy) — 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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/hard) — 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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/giant) — 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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/large-print) — 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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/for-classrooms) — 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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/collect-the-stars) — 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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/coding) — 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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/square) 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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/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](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/picture) 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. [Open the maze generator](https://www.oncebooks.com/tools/maze-generator)[Make a whole book for KDP](https://www.oncebooks.com/kdp-maze-maker)