Printable Mazes for Adults

Our printable mazes for adults are full-page square mazes with bold black walls and wide paths, about half an inch across, so a pencil line fits comfortably without touching the walls. Each one has a clearly labeled START at the top left and FINISH at the bottom right, and software checks that there's exactly one way through. You get 4 of them in every monthly Large Print Puzzle Club pack, printed at home on US Letter paper.

What our mazes look like

• One maze per page, about 7 inches across, filling most of a US Letter sheet.
• Bold walls. The walls are thick black lines that stay easy to see.
• Wide paths. The corridors are about half an inch wide, a little more on the smaller mazes, so there's room to draw without bumping the walls.
• Clear START and FINISH labels in large bold type, at the openings in the top-left and bottom-right corners.
• Plain grid style. Our mazes are made of straight corridors on a square grid. No pictures to decode, no tiny passages and no color.
• Short instructions in at least 18 point at the top of the page.

These are grown-up mazes, not kids' activity sheets

Many printable mazes online are made for children: cartoon shapes, very short routes, or a picture of a mouse looking for cheese. Ours are designed for adults who simply like a clear, satisfying puzzle:

• Each maze is a square grid of 10 × 10 to 12 × 12 cells, with long winding routes and plenty of dead ends.
• There are no pictures or characters, just clean lines.
• The difficulty comes from the route, not from squinting at thin lines.

How to solve a maze

Start at the opening marked START and draw a line along the paths to the opening marked FINISH, without crossing any wall.

Tips

1. Trace with your finger first. Explore a route before committing to it in pencil.
2. Work backward. Starting at FINISH and heading toward START often reveals the route faster, because dead ends look different from the other side.
3. Mark dead ends. Put a small x at the mouth of any dead end you find so you don't go down it again.
4. Use a pencil. You can erase a wrong turn and keep the page tidy.
5. Print a spare copy. Mazes are fun to do twice. Print the page again for a fresh try.

What "exactly one path" means

Every one of our mazes is a "perfect" maze: there are no loops, every corridor is connected, and there is only one route from START to FINISH. A separate checking program confirms this for every maze before a pack goes out, so you never meet a maze with no way through, or with two routes that make the puzzle too easy.

How to print mazes clearly

• Paper: US Letter (8.5 × 11 inches). Ordinary copy paper is fine.
• Scale: Choose Actual size or 100% in your print window to keep the paths at full width.
• A4 paper: Choose Fit to page. It will print a little smaller.
• Quality: "Normal" or "Standard," not "Draft," so the walls print solid black.
• Color: Black and white is all you need.

You can print any maze as often as you like for yourself and your household.

Mazes in every pack

Every monthly pack has 6 mazes, getting a little larger as you go: two 10 × 10, two 11 × 11 and two 12 × 12 grids. The gift pack and each bonus pack have 4: one 10 × 10, one 11 × 11 and two 12 × 12. The answer key at the back of the pack shows the route through each maze.

The monthly pack also includes large print word searches, large print sudoku, word scrambles and number puzzles, for 32 puzzles in all. Browse every type on our printable puzzles for adults page.

• Free: our free sampler has 8 puzzles, including 1 maze. No card, no subscription.
• $12 once: a one-time gift pack of 24 puzzles from this month's themes, with answer keys. No subscription.
• $9 a month: new members get 56 puzzles today (this month's 32-puzzle pack plus a 24-puzzle Bonus Pack), then a new 32-puzzle pack every month. Cancel online anytime. No phone call, no form. See how it works.
• 30-day money-back guarantee: if you're not happy within 30 days of any payment, email us and we'll refund that payment in full. No questions asked. You keep what you've printed.

Maze questions