--- title: "Free printable maze generator | Once Books" description: "A free printable maze generator: square, hexagonal, triangular, circular or picture-shaped, at any size from toddler to fiendish. Print the maze and its answer. No sign-up." source: "https://www.oncebooks.com/tools/maze-generator" --- 1. [Home](https://www.oncebooks.com/) 2. [Tools](https://www.oncebooks.com/tools) 3. Maze generator Free tool # Free printable maze generator Square, hexagonal, triangular, circular or shaped like a heart. Pick a size and how hard it should be, press generate, and print the maze plus its answer. No sign-up, no watermark. The same engine behind our KDP Publisher Studio. MazeDesign Shape Output MazeCoding path A coding path turns the maze into a write-the-arrows worksheet. Grid size Ages 7–10 Difficulty This one reads hard rather than medium. 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=eyJzaGFwZSI6InJlY3QiLCJzaXplIjoibWVkaXVtIiwiYWxnb3JpdGhtIjoiYmFja3RyYWNrZXIiLCJkaWZmaWN1bHR5IjoiTUVESVVNIiwiZW5kcG9pbnRzIjoiY29ybmVycyIsImNvbG9yVGhlbWUiOnsidGhlbWVJZCI6ImNsYXNzaWMiLCJvdmVycmlkZXMiOnt9fX0) Free to build · pay once to export Preview The maze and its answer, as they print. Hide the preview - Maze Medium 1 Maze - Answer Medium · Solution 2 Answer Generate mazePrint / save PDF ## How to make a maze 1. Pick a shape and a size. Square is the familiar one. Hexagons give every junction more ways to be wrong, a circular maze is solved from the rim inward, and a picture shape fills a heart, a star or a crescent moon. Sizes run from a 7 by 7 grid for a three-year-old to a 40 by 40 for an adult. 2. Set how hard it should be. Difficulty picks the corridor texture and the start and finish placement. You can also open up the dead ends for a small child, hide stars the route has to collect, or choose the corridor style yourself. 3. Print the two pages. Press Print. You get the maze on page one and the solved route on page two, sized for clean printing at 8.25 by 11 inches or saving as a PDF. ## The five shapes, and who each one is for **Square** The maze everyone pictures. Four ways out of every junction, so it reads quickly and prints cleanly at any size. Start here. **Hexagonal** Six ways out of every cell instead of four, so a hexagonal maze of the same size is harder, because every junction offers more ways to be wrong. It also looks unlike anything else on the shelf. **Triangular** Three ways out, so junctions are rare and the corridors run strongly diagonal. A distinctive page rather than a harder one. **Circular** Rings cut into wedges, solved from the rim in to the middle. The rings subdivide outward so the outer corridors stay a readable width instead of becoming caverns. **Picture shape** The maze fills a silhouette: a heart, a star, a crescent moon, a cat. The shape is the selling image, which is why these are the ones that get shared. ## Publishing a whole book? This tool makes one maze for home or the classroom. To make a maze book you can sell on Amazon KDP, Publisher Studio generates hundreds of graded mazes in one shape, with an optional how-to-solve page at the front, at any KDP trim, as a print-ready 300 DPI interior and a matching solutions PDF. Generate once, export unlimited sizes. [See the KDP maze maker](https://www.oncebooks.com/kdp-maze-maker) ## Questions **Is this maze generator free?** Yes. Pick a shape and a difficulty, generate a maze and print it with its answer, with no sign-up and no watermark. It is free for classroom, home and personal use. **Does every maze have exactly one way through?** Yes, unless you open up the dead ends. A maze is carved as a spanning tree, which means every square is reachable and exactly one route joins any two of them. Turn on "some loops" or "no dead ends" and the maze gains shortcuts. It then has one shortest route, which is what the answer page draws. **How do I know the answer page is right?** The route is worked out from the maze itself by searching it, not drawn alongside it by hand. So the answer cannot disagree with the maze it answers. That is also why mazes are the one puzzle whose key is provably correct rather than carefully checked. **What makes a maze hard?** Not size on its own. A big grid whose solution runs down one edge is an easy page. What matters is how far the route travels across the grid and how deep the wrong turns go. A mistake that dead-ends after two squares costs nothing; one that wanders fifty squares costs a lot. The generator measures both and tells you when a maze reads easier than the grade you picked. **Which shape should I choose for young children?** A square maze at tiny or small, with the dead ends opened up and the guide grid on. That makes a maze a four-year-old can wander through without getting stuck, which is the point at that age. Chunky walls make it easier still to follow with a crayon. **Can I sell maze books I make with a generator?** The free tool makes one maze at a time for personal and classroom use. To make a book you can sell on Amazon KDP, our Publisher Studio generates hundreds of graded mazes in one shape, at any KDP trim, as a print-ready 300 DPI interior PDF and a matching solutions PDF. Looking for a maze by shape or age? [Browse the printable mazes](https://www.oncebooks.com/maze).