Hexagonal mazes
A hexagonal maze replaces the grid of squares with a honeycomb, so corridors run in six directions instead of four. The extra choices at every junction are what make it harder than a square maze of the same size, and the slanted paths are what make it look unlike anything else on the shelf.
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.
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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 six sides is harder than four
In a square maze a junction offers at most three ways on from the one you arrived by. In a hexagonal maze it offers up to five. That is not a small difference once you are forty cells into a route: the number of wrong branches you can take grows with every junction you pass.
The second reason is that your eye has nothing straight to follow. A square maze lets you scan down a column; a honeycomb does not, so you have to trace rather than glance. Solvers who have exhausted square mazes usually find a hexagon the next real step up.
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.
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.
- three ways out of every cellTriangularTriangles pointing up and down in alternating rows, so the corridors run diagonally across the page.
- four ways out, but two of them curveCircularConcentric rings cut into wedges, with a gap in the outer rim to enter by and a small circle at the middle to reach.
- 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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- Are these hexagonal 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.