Printable mazes
Three mazes on one sheet, from a ten-minute starter to a proper challenge. The dot marks the entrance and the other dot marks the exit. Solutions are on the second sheet.
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Mazes
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Mazes — solution
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████████████████████████████████ What is on the sheet
- Three mazes, each printed at a different size: an easy one for a first-timer, a medium one, and a hard one with a proper route to find.
- A dot at the entrance of every maze and a dot at the exit, so nobody has to guess where to start.
- A name and date line, which is what turns a maze into a worksheet.
- The solved routes on a second sheet, for an adult checking the work or for anyone who gets stuck.
How to print
- Print at 100 percent. A "fit to page" setting shrinks the mazes unevenly and the hard one stops fitting at all.
- Black and white is fine, and the walls are solid blocks rather than lines, so they survive a cheap printer and a photocopy.
- Print two copies if two people want to race the same maze - the first one to the exit dot wins.
- Cut the sheet in half between the mazes and the solutions if you are handing the puzzle to a class.
Why mazes are worth printing
A maze is one of the few puzzles that teaches something other than the puzzle itself. A child working a maze is quietly practising planning a route, spotting the difference between a corridor that goes somewhere and one that does not, and holding a plan in their head long enough to follow it - which is the same set of skills that makes a puzzle grid hard. Printed, they also do something a screen cannot: they can be done with a pencil, in a car, on a table, or stuck to the fridge.
For adults, the hard maze is a five-minute coffee-break puzzle. For a classroom, the easy one works as a settling activity at the start of a lesson.
More to print and to play
The printables hub has board sheets and themed word searches as well. If you would rather solve puzzles on a screen, the full catalogue includes Sokoban, Sliding Puzzle and Astray, which is a first-person maze with a clock running.