Mazes on Paper

How to print

During a game, the Print this maze button opens a print preview — the timer pauses, so print at your leisure and pick up where you left off. You can also start a maze from a code on the maze home page and print it right away.

The printout is one A4 page in portrait: the maze code and difficulty at the top, a big maze in the middle, and the address and QR code that open the same maze at the bottom. It comes out sharp even on a black-and-white printer.

What's inside the QR code?

The QR holds only the share address — not a picture of the maze. Scan it and the browser rebuilds the same maze on the spot from the code, so you can pick up a paper maze and keep solving it on screen.

Ways to use it

• In classrooms and clubs — print one copy of the same code per person, hand them out, and everyone races on an identical maze at once. First to finish wins! Afterwards, scan the QR and race the very same maze on screen against the clock.
• With kids — a maze becomes a paper-and-pencil game with no screen time to worry about. Low difficulties (levels 1 to 5) suit young children, and middle difficulties fit school-age kids nicely.
• For travel and waiting rooms — print a few sheets and you have puzzles that work with no internet at all. The code is printed right on the page, so you can go after an online record later.
• Typing the code by hand — if scanning isn't an option, just type the code from the top of the printout. The easily confused letters (I, L, O, U) are never used in codes, so copying one out is painless.

Printing tips

For paper, difficulties 3 to 12 are the sweet spot. At difficulty 17 and above the lines get very fine and may smudge on a home printer.

Print the same maze five times, or print it again years from now — as long as the code matches, the maze matches. You can never lose the answer.