--- title: "Cross mazes: free printable with answers" description: "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." source: "https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/cross" --- 1. [Home](https://www.oncebooks.com/) 2. [Printable mazes](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze) 3. Cross Free printable # Cross mazes A cross maze is four equal arms meeting at a square centre. Because the arms only join through the middle, the route crosses the centre more than once on its way from one arm to another. MazeDesign Shape Output MazeCoding path A coding path turns the maze into a write-the-arrows worksheet. Picture The maze fills the silhouette. Grid size Ages 7–10 Difficulty This one reads medium 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=eyJzaGFwZSI6Im1hc2siLCJtYXNrIjoiY3Jvc3MiLCJzaXplIjoibWVkaXVtIiwiYWxnb3JpdGhtIjoiYmFja3RyYWNrZXIiLCJkaWZmaWN1bHR5IjoiRUFTWSIsImVuZHBvaW50cyI6ImNvcm5lcnMiLCJjb2xvclRoZW1lIjp7InRoZW1lSWQiOiJjbGFzc2ljIiwib3ZlcnJpZGVzIjp7fX19) 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 ## The centre is the only way between the arms Each of the four arms is a near dead end: a corridor or two runs out into it and comes back. Any path between two arms has to pass through the square in the middle, so the centre carries the traffic of the whole puzzle and the route returns to it again and again. That makes the cross a good shape for a collecting maze. Put one star at the end of each arm and the solver has to visit all four and keep returning to the middle, which covers the whole shape rather than one corner of it. 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. ## 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, 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.](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/circular) ## 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 silhouette, at any trim, as a print-ready 300 DPI interior and a matching solutions PDF. Generate once, export unlimited sizes. ## More printable mazes - [Heart mazes](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/heart) - [Star mazes](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/star) - [Christmas tree mazes](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/christmas-tree) - [Cat mazes](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/cat) - [Crescent moon mazes](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/moon) - [Flower mazes](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze/flower) [See every printable maze](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze) ## Questions **Are these cross 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.