IMAZE

Free Maze Generator — Circle, Square & Triangle Mazes

Generate, solve, and export free custom circle, square, and triangle mazes — no sign-up required.

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About This Maze Generator

I Love Maze is a free online maze generator that lets you build custom circle mazes, square mazes, and triangle mazes in seconds. Whether you're looking for a printable maze for a classroom worksheet, a quick brain teaser to solve on your phone, or a unique puzzle for a party or scavenger hunt, this tool creates a fresh, randomly generated maze every time — no downloads, accounts, or watermarks.

3Maze Shapes
∞Unique Puzzles
$0Cost, Ever

What Is a Maze?

A maze, sometimes called a labyrinth, is a puzzle built from a network of paths where exactly one route connects the entrance to the exit, while every other branch leads to a dead end. Solving one means tracing that single correct path by hand or with the help of a solver. Behind the scenes, this generator builds three different maze topologies — circular, square, and triangular — and each one follows its own layout rules while sharing the same underlying generation and solving logic, so the puzzle stays fair and fully solvable no matter which shape you pick.

How to Use the Maze Generator

  • Choose a shape & difficulty
  • Tap Generate
  • Tap Solve if you get stuck
  • Export as PNG or SVG

Fine-tune the look before exporting — wall thickness, solution line thickness, and the wall, background, and solution colors are all adjustable in the settings panel.

Circle, Square, and Triangle Mazes Explained

Circle Rings winding around a center point
Square The classic grid layout
Triangle A trickier triangular lattice

Circle mazes (also called radial or circular mazes) arrange cells in rings around a center point, with the path winding outward or inward instead of running in straight lines — a shape that's harder to solve at a glance than a standard grid. Square mazes use the classic grid layout most people picture when they hear the word "maze," which makes them a natural fit for worksheets and traditional puzzle books. Triangle mazes are built on a triangular lattice rather than a square grid, which packs more turns and decision points into the same amount of space, making them feel noticeably trickier even at a similar cell count.

Same size, different feel: a triangle maze is usually the hardest of the three at an equivalent cell count, followed by circle, then square.

Tips for Solving a Maze Faster

  • Work backward from the exit. The finish often has fewer connecting paths than the entrance, so tracing it back can shortcut a lot of dead ends.
  • Hug one wall. Keeping a hand on the same wall the whole way through (the "wall follower" method) is guaranteed to find the exit in any simply-connected maze, circle, square, or triangle.
  • Scan for dead-end clusters first. Mentally graying out short dead-end branches before you start narrows the maze down to the paths that actually matter.
  • Stuck? Tap Solve. It's not cheating — it's a fast way to check your instincts, or to grab an already-solved version for an answer key.

These same tricks work whether you're printing a worksheet for a classroom, timing yourself on a phone screen, or watching a kid untangle their very first maze.

Free, Printable, and Ready for Any Use

Every maze this tool creates can be downloaded as a print-ready PNG or a scalable SVG, so it's just as useful for a teacher preparing a printable maze worksheet as it is for a parent looking for a screen-time-friendly puzzle for kids, or a designer who needs a maze graphic for a poster, invitation, or game. Because each maze is randomly generated on the spot, you're never stuck reusing the same handful of stock puzzles — you can generate as many unique circle, square, or triangle mazes as you need, at whatever size and difficulty the occasion calls for, at no cost.

Choosing a Difficulty Level

Difficulty is really a shortcut for maze size: Easy starts you with a small, quick-to-solve maze, Medium is a balanced middle ground, and Hard jumps to a larger maze with more dead ends and longer paths to untangle. These presets just set a starting point — the actual size (rings for circle mazes, grid dimensions for square mazes, or lattice order for triangle mazes) can always be adjusted manually afterward, so you're not locked into three fixed sizes.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this maze generator free to use?

Yes. Generating, solving, customizing, and downloading mazes is completely free, with no sign-up or account required.

Can I print the mazes I create?

Yes. Export a maze as a PNG for quick printing, or as an SVG if you need a sharper, scalable version for a worksheet, poster, or document.

Can I change the maze's colors and line thickness?

Yes. Wall color, background color, solution color, wall thickness, and solution line thickness are all adjustable in the settings panel before you export.

What's the difference between the difficulty levels?

Difficulty sets the starting maze size and route complexity — Easy is smaller and quicker to solve, Hard is larger and more complex, and Very Hard pushes both the size and the route's difficulty score further still. You can still fine-tune the exact size manually at any time.

Are the mazes randomly generated, or the same every time?

Every maze is freshly and randomly generated, so you can create as many different puzzles as you like. Each maze also has its own seed, so a specific layout can be reproduced later if you want to solve or print the exact same maze again.

Is this maze generator good for kids or classroom worksheets?

Yes. Circle, square, and triangle mazes at Easy difficulty make quick, printable worksheets for kids, and the size can be scaled up for older students who want more of a challenge.

Does the maze generator work on mobile phones and tablets?

Yes. The generator, solver, and export tools all work directly in a mobile browser, with no app to install.