Square mazes
A square maze is the one everyone pictures: a grid of squares, walls between them, an arrow in at one corner and an arrow out at another. Pick how big and how hard, press generate, and print it with the solved route on the facing page.
A coding path turns the maze into a write-the-arrows worksheet.
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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Preview
The maze and its answer, as they print.
Which size suits which age
Size is the lever that matters most for a child. A 7 by 7 grid is about a minute of work for a four-year-old and fits on half a page at a readable corridor width. An 11 by 11 suits five to seven, a 16 by 16 suits seven to ten, and anything above 22 by 22 is adult work whatever the label on it says.
The grid also decides how thick the walls can be. At 40 by 40 on a letter page a corridor is about five millimetres wide, which is fine with a pencil and frustrating with a crayon. If you are printing for a young child, go down a size rather than up a wall weight.
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.
- 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.
The other shapes
- 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, 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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Questions
- Are these square 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.