Circular mazes
A circular maze is built from concentric rings cut into wedges. You enter through a gap in the outer rim and work inward to the small circle at the centre, so progress is counted in rings rather than in distance across a page.
Ages 7–10
This one reads hard rather than easy.
A true maze: one way through, and wrong turns stop dead.
The route has to pass through every one.
How the passages wind. Each one has its own texture to solve.
Customise colours
Bold and chunky are the large-print settings.
A faint grid behind the walls, for the youngest solvers.
Clean drops the title band and footer, leaving the maze.
Two pages: the maze and its answer. The answer is worked out from the maze itself rather than drawn alongside it, so it can never be wrong. Same engine as our KDP studio.
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The maze and its answer, as they print.
Why the rings subdivide as they go out
The outer ring of a circular maze is several times longer than the inner one. If every ring held the same number of cells, the middle would be slivers and the rim would be caverns, and the maze would read as a target rather than a puzzle.
So the generator splits a ring whenever its cells would get too wide, which keeps every corridor roughly as wide as it is tall, from the hub to the rim. That is why a circular maze from this tool looks evenly woven rather than stretched.
A labyrinth is not a maze
A labyrinth has one winding path and no choices: you cannot get lost, and walking it is the point. A circular maze has junctions and dead ends, and you can absolutely get lost. If you came looking for the calm single-path spiral, what you want is a labyrinth, and this is not it.
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.
The other shapes
- four ways out of every junctionRectangularA grid of squares with walls between them, an arrow going in at one corner and an arrow coming out at another.
- six ways out of every cellHexagonalA honeycomb of six-sided cells. The corridors run in six directions rather than four, so the paths slant as well as turn.
- three ways out of every cellTriangularTriangles pointing up and down in alternating rows, so the corridors run diagonally across the page.
- four ways out, inside an outlinePicture shapeA square-grid maze carved to fill a silhouette: a heart, a star, a crescent moon, a cat, a tree.
Making a whole maze book?
This page makes one maze. To publish a book on Amazon KDP, the KDP maze maker generates hundreds of graded mazes in one shape, at any trim, as a print-ready 300 DPI interior and a matching solutions PDF. Generate once, export unlimited sizes.
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Questions
- Are these circular mazes free to print?
- Yes. Generate the maze above and print it with its answer, at no cost and with no sign-up. It is free for classroom, home and personal use.
- Is there exactly one way through?
- Yes. The maze is carved as a spanning tree, which means every square is reachable and exactly one route joins any two of them. The answer page draws that route, found by searching the maze itself rather than drawn alongside it.
- Can I make a maze book to sell on KDP?
- Yes. The free tool makes one maze. Publisher Studio generates hundreds of graded mazes in one shape, with an optional how-to-solve page, at any KDP trim, as a print-ready 300 DPI interior and a matching solutions PDF.