A free maze generator. Draw, type a word or paste a picture, and print it at home.
reading your drawing...
carving 6,396 cells...
one solution found, 239 steps long
done in 61 ms. ready to print
Four moves to a maze
Draw it
Pencil, shapes, text, or paste a picture. Thin lines become walls the maze runs along.
Mark Start and Finish
Drop the boxes where you want them. Add numbered checkpoints if you want a route.
Paint the patterns
Long sideways halls for water, tall ones for sky, spirals, open rooms, a hallway with one big choice.
Print it
Generate, reroll until you like it, and print. There is always exactly one way through.
Draw it
Pencil, shapes, text, or paste a picture. Thin lines become walls the maze runs along.
Mark Start and Finish
Drop the boxes where you want them. Add numbered checkpoints if you want a route.
Paint the patterns
Long sideways halls for water, tall ones for sky, spirals, open rooms, a hallway with one big choice.
Print it
Generate, reroll until you like it, and print. There is always exactly one way through.
The originals
About 20 years ago I worked tech support. When it got slow, I opened MS Paint and drew mazes one pixel at a time, for coworkers and friends, and mostly because I was bored. Each one took me 5 to 10 hours.
A-Mazing does the pixel by pixel part in about a second.
Patterns you can paint
Paint an area with a pattern and the maze grows that way there. It still has one solution.
Hallway of directions
Five lanes side by side, then they split. Only one keeps going.
Yin yang twist
Two spirals wound together. One gets you through, one is a long way to nowhere.
Open rooms
Walk across, find the door into the next ring.
Sea
Long sideways halls, like water.
Sky
Tall up and down halls.
Spiral
The maze curls around where you started painting.
Can I sell it?
No. Make as many as you want for home, school, church or anything else that isn’t for sale. Print them, copy them, hand them out.
Don’t sell them, alone or in a book or a printable pack.
If you share or post one, keep the footer on it or link back to pettigrewlab.com/games.
Is it free?
Yes. No account, no sign in, nothing to buy. There is a small ad lower on the page.
Can I sell what I make?
No. It’s free to use, not free to sell. If you share one, keep the footer or link back to pettigrewlab.com/games.
Can I use my own picture?
Yes. Paste it, drop it in or upload it, slide the light and dark setting until it looks right, and place it. Line drawings and clip art work best.
Is there always a solution?
Always exactly one. If your drawing walls off Start from Finish, the tool tells you where so you can open a gap.
How hard can it get?
Pick tiny pixels, a long path and lots of dead ends. A full page at the tiny size is hours of work for a person, which I know from experience.
Does my drawing get uploaded?
No. Everything runs in your browser. Your draft is saved on your own device.