I have made thousands of mazes, and you can find most of them on this website. Depending on when you visit the site the styles and topics have changed over the years. Today I want to go back to when I made daily mazes and focused on many different kinds of mazes. If you like variety in your mazes (with a puzzle element) this is the collection for you.
And the second best part - solving mazes is also good for you ! (The Surprising Benefits of Solving Mazes)
A download of all the mazes is available at the bottom of the post. Let’s get started:
I. Arrow Maze
This is my favorite type of maze to make that is a puzzle and not art. A good arrow maze has no dead ends and will drive the solver nuts with endless loops. Hopefully this version does that for you.
If you like this one and want to try to solve the largest arrow maze in the world (probably), I have that too !
Or maybe you want to try 100 of them from my Amazon book. It is one of the only maze books available for kindle (since solving these do not require pencil).
Large Arrow Maze
II. Conditional Pathway Maze
This maze is a longer and larger version of a maze from my book on Amazon for kids. I really enjoy making this type of maze - sometimes it even trips me up !
To solve this particular maze you need to rotate the color of the pathway you take between each joint - black to grey to white.
Conditional Pathway Maze
III. Block Move Maze
Another puzzle type maze. To solve a block move maze you must shift blocks to create a continuous pathway between the start and goal.
You may only move blocks and yourself at 90 degree angles, no 45 degree moves. You cannot move the block you are on (it would break the pathway behind you).
Block Move Maze
IV. The Weaving Maze
A weaving maze makes you think and solve in 3-D. What makes them difficult is that because of the structure you cannot see dead ends as easily. Also, they are made with loops in the design which can be frustrating !
If you like this type of maze I made an entire book of 100 of them on Amazon.
A similar version - instead of weaving it uses pipes that is also difficult is the Largest Pipe Maze in the World Maze.
Large Weaving Maze
V. Maze Art
I have a website full of maze arts so I had a lot of options to choose from. Why this one ? Well the best performing mazes are the most famous buildings. This cool building, the Peter B Lewis Building, designed by Frank Gehry isn’t so famous, but I thought I deserved some love. It also gives you a sense of how many of my mazes are to solve.
Because of the shape and size this is best printed on a large piece of paper, or opened online and using the zoom function !
VI. Slide Arrow Maze
The relative of the arrow maze, in a slide arrow maze you can move to any block that the arrow is pointing at. That makes the number of combinations wildly high and the maze extremely difficult.
Typically I use a slide arrow as a block or 2 in a regular arrow maze, but as a full maze it gets complicated !
If this post does well, I will make more variety maze collections for adults ! Happy mazing !
