--- title: "Circular mazes: free printable with answers" description: "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." source: "https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/circular" --- 1. [Home](https://www.oncebooks.com/) 2. [Printable mazes](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze) 3. Circular Free printable # 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. MazeDesign Shape Grid size Ages 7–10 Difficulty This one reads hard rather than easy. Start and finish Passages Dead endsSome loopsNo dead ends A true maze: one way through, and wrong turns stop dead. Stars to collect The route has to pass through every one. Corridors How the passages wind. Each one has its own texture to solve. Theme ClassicBoldSoftShadedNavyIndigoSkyTealEmeraldForestPlumBerryCrimsonEmberAmberCocoa **Customise colours** Walls Answer line Start, end & stars Corridor fill Page background Wall thickness Bold and chunky are the large-print settings. Start and finish marks Guide grid OffOn A faint grid behind the walls, for the youngest solvers. Style StandardClean Clean drops the title band and footer, leaving the maze. Generate mazePrint / save PDF 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. ## Want the whole book? This makes one maze. Sign up to turn these settings into a full maze book for Amazon KDP: hundreds of graded mazes at any trim, as print-ready PDFs. We carry your shape, size and every other setting into the studio. [Build the full book](https://app.oncebooks.com/publisher-studio/maze/edit?from=maze&v=2&s=eyJzaGFwZSI6ImNpcmNsZSIsInNpemUiOiJtZWRpdW0iLCJhbGdvcml0aG0iOiJiYWNrdHJhY2tlciIsImRpZmZpY3VsdHkiOiJFQVNZIiwiZW5kcG9pbnRzIjoiY29ybmVycyIsImNvbG9yVGhlbWUiOnsidGhlbWVJZCI6ImNsYXNzaWMiLCJvdmVycmlkZXMiOnt9fX0) Free to build · pay once to export Preview The maze and its answer, as they print. Hide the preview - Maze Easy 1 Maze - Answer Easy · Solution 2 Answer Generate mazePrint / save PDF ## 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 junction Rectangular A grid of squares with walls between them, an arrow going in at one corner and an arrow coming out at another.](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/square) - [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.](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/hexagonal) - [three ways out of every cell Triangular Triangles pointing up and down in alternating rows, so the corridors run diagonally across the page.](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/triangular) - [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.](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/picture) ## Making a whole maze book? This page makes one maze. To publish a book on Amazon KDP, the [KDP maze maker](https://www.oncebooks.com/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. ## More printable mazes - [Square mazes](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/square) - [Hexagonal mazes](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/hexagonal) - [Triangular mazes](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/triangular) - [Picture shape mazes](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/picture) - [Heart mazes](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/heart) - [Star mazes](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/star) [See every printable maze](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze) ## 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.