Find the Way Through
Grade 1 · medium
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Start at the dot and draw a line to the star. There is only one way through.
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Find the way through
Every maze is generated rather than drawn, and generated in a way that guarantees exactly one path between any two points. That is what makes the printed solution the solution — a hand-drawn maze with two routes has an answer key that is quietly wrong.
- A new maze every time you change the settings
- Exactly one path from the arrow to the star
- Answer key shades the route
- One maze per page, filling the sheet
Generated by the same code that makes your download
What’s on the sheet
- One maze per page, drawn to fill the sheet
- Grid size and branching that grow with the difficulty
- A guaranteed single path from start to finish
- A solution page with the route traced
What each difficulty means
Difficulty is a real change to the numbers or the layout, not a label.
Gentle start
An 8 × 10 grid, with cells big enough to trace with a finger.
Just right
A 12 × 15 grid — long enough to need a wrong turn or two.
Extra challenge
A 16 × 20 grid, with plenty of dead ends.
Grades this covers
Tap a grade you can use for a page of everything a child that age can practise here.
Every maze here has exactly one solution, by construction
A generated maze raises an obvious worry: is there definitely a way through? Each one is built by carving a spanning tree through a grid of cells. That guarantees exactly one path between any two points: no design that accidentally seals the exit off, and no shortcuts.
The solution is traced at generation time and printed on the answer page, which also means nobody has to solve it to check it.
What a maze actually practises
Planning ahead, tracking a line without losing your place, and the willingness to back up and try again. Those are pencil-control and persistence skills rather than academic ones, and they transfer to handwriting more than to math.
It is also the sheet a tired child will do voluntarily on a bad afternoon, which is worth something on its own.
Questions
Can a maze have more than one route?
Not here. The construction produces a perfect maze — one path between any two cells — so there is never a shortcut the answer key missed.
What age are these for?
The gentle setting suits four and five year olds; the challenge setting will keep a ten year old busy.
More practice to try
Finish the patternName the shape, or count its sidesWhich group does it belong to?Put the numbers in orderAddition worksheets you can fill to the lineSubtraction worksheets, with or without borrowing
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