Triangular mazes
A triangular maze is built from triangles pointing up and down in alternating rows, which gives every cell three sides instead of four. Junctions are rarer than in a square maze, so solving it is less about choosing and more about following a corridor to see where it goes.
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.
A different kind of difficulty
Three sides per cell means most cells have one way in and one way out. You spend long stretches simply tracing, and then arrive at a junction that actually matters. That rhythm suits a solver who finds a dense square maze fussy, and it suits a page that has to look good as much as solve well.
The triangular grid is also taller than it is wide for a given cell count, so these print well on a portrait page with room left for a title. It is the shape to reach for when a maze has to share a page with something else.
three ways out of every cell
Triangular
Triangles pointing up and down in alternating rows, so the corridors run diagonally across the page.
- How it solves
- Three sides per cell means junctions are rare: most of the time there is one way on and you follow it. That makes a triangular maze less about choosing and more about tracing, which is a different pleasure rather than a lesser one.
- Good for
- A change of pace, and the most distinctive page in a variety book.
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.
- 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 triangular 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.