Maze Puzzle

Most maze sites only give you a picture. You choose a size, they render one static image, and the only thing left to do is print it. This maze puzzle works the other way round: every maze is playable right here in the browser. You steer the emoji character with the arrow keys or WASD on a computer, with swipes on a phone or tablet, or with the on-screen direction pad on any device. A live timer and move counter run while you play, a breadcrumb trail marks every square you have already stepped on so backtracking is obvious, and an optional fog of war mode hides everything more than a few squares away for a much harder run.

Each maze is built the moment you ask for one, using a randomised depth-first carving method. In plain language: the program starts in one square and keeps tunnelling into a neighbouring square it has not visited yet, backing up whenever it hits a dead end, until every single square has been reached exactly once. Because no square is ever connected twice, the finished maze has exactly one route between any two points — no loops, no shortcuts, and no sealed-off areas. That is why every maze here is guaranteed solvable, and why Reveal Path can always trace the one true route from where you are standing to the goal.

The four sizes are real grid dimensions, not decorative labels. Small is 11×11 and suits young children or a quick coffee-break solve. Medium is 17×17, a comfortable few minutes. Large is 25×25 and starts to demand a plan rather than guesswork. Huge is 35×35, where the fog of war option turns the puzzle into genuine exploration. Switching size regenerates immediately, and each size keeps its own best time in your browser so you can chase a personal record on the one you like most. A rotating set of emoji start-and-goal pairs — monkey and banana, bee and sunflower, rocket and planet, and many more — cycles through without repeating so consecutive mazes always look different.

The Print PDF button turns the exact maze on your screen into a clean black-and-white A4 worksheet: page one is the blank maze marked with S and E, page two is the same maze with the solution drawn through it. That is a ready-made answer key for teachers, tutors and homeschooling parents, and there is no restriction attached to it. No account, no email, no premium tier, and no personal-use-only clause — print one for a child at the kitchen table or thirty for a classroom, and use them commercially if you want to. Nothing you do here is uploaded anywhere; the mazes are generated on your device and your stats stay in your own browser.