Free printable mazes and maze generator

Circular Maze Generator

Round mazes made of rings, from the centre out. Print them with answers or download an SVG.

A circular maze is a maze drawn as rings around a centre cell, and you find your way from the middle out to a gap in the outer ring. This tool makes round mazes, also called circle mazes, in your web browser. It is free, needs no sign-up, and nothing has to be installed. Each maze is made on your device, and nothing is uploaded. You can pick a difficulty, reveal the route in red, and print the mazes or save them as a PDF or image. This page is useful for a circle maze puzzle, a printable activity for a classroom, or a quick easy circle maze for a break.

How to use the Circular Maze

  1. Choose a difficulty. Very easy makes 5 rings, Easy 8, Medium 12, Hard 18, Very hard 25 and Expert 35. More rings means a bigger, harder maze.
  2. For finer control, open the Design tab. Set Rings anywhere from 3 to 60. To put the exit on the far side, set Entrance and exit to Opposite sides, which uses two gaps on opposite sides of the outer ring.
  3. Find the start and the finish. By default, Start is the centre cell and Finish is a gap in the outer ring.
  4. Press New maze to get a different maze with the same settings.
  5. Press Show solution to draw the route from Start to Finish in red.
  6. On the Print tab, set Mazes per page, Number of pages, Paper size (US Letter or A4) and whether to Add answer pages. For a worksheet, choose the Worksheet page layout to add a name and date line and the instruction “Find the way from Start to Finish.”
  7. Check the preview, then press Print / Save as PDF. To keep a picture instead, press Download SVG (sharp at any size) or Download PNG.

To share the exact maze or print set, press Copy link. Anyone who opens the link gets the same maze, because the link holds the maze’s seed and settings.

What is a circular maze?

A circular maze is a maze built from concentric rings, with a single centre cell at the middle. Passages run around each ring and also in and out between neighbouring rings, so you can move both around and toward the centre or the edge. It is sometimes called a theta maze, after the Greek letter θ, which looks like a circle crossed by a line. On the printed maze the centre cell is marked with a dot, so a child can see where to begin.

Every maze made here has a route from Start to Finish. The tool works out the shortest route itself, so you can check your answer or show it with Show solution. Along the way you will meet branches and dead ends. On the site’s generator, a Medium maze (12 rings) averages about 319 cells, 35 dead ends and a shortest route of about 144 cells. An Expert maze (35 rings) averages about 2,700 cells and a shortest route of about 845 cells. These figures are averages over 20 generated mazes.

How is a circular maze made?

The maze is built ring by ring from the centre outward. The centre is one cell. Each ring further out is split into more cells than the ring inside it. The number of cells doubles whenever the cells would get too wide, which keeps the cells roughly square, so the passages look even from the middle to the edge.

Walls are drawn as true arcs rather than as straight segments in a grid, which is why circular mazes look smooth when printed at any size, and why the SVG download keeps them as true curves. The maze is generated from a seed number. The same seed and settings always produce the same maze, which is how a reprint comes out identical. Each maze in a printed set gets its own seed, derived from the set’s seed, and the page footer prints the site name and that seed.

Frequently asked questions

Is the circular maze tool free?

Yes. It is free to use, requires no sign-up, and nothing needs to be installed. Mazes are made on your device, and nothing is uploaded.

Can I print the answers?

Yes. Turn on Add answer pages in the Print tab. The answer pages come after the maze pages and show the solution in red. Check the preview of the answer page before you print.

Does it work on a phone or tablet?

Because the tool runs in a web browser with nothing to install, you open it the same way on a tablet or phone browser. Printing and saving depend on your device’s print dialog, so check the preview before you print.

Is a circular maze the same as a labyrinth?

No. A classical labyrinth has one path to the centre and no choices, so you cannot get lost on it. A maze has branches and dead ends, and you must choose a route. The mazes on this page have branches and dead ends, so they are mazes, not labyrinths, even though they are round.

How do I make the maze harder or easier?

Pick a difficulty level, or set the number of rings on the Design tab. Fewer rings make a smaller, easier maze, and more rings make a larger, harder one. The Expert level uses 35 rings.

Can I get the same maze again?

Yes. Use Copy link to save the exact maze or set, or note its seed from the footer. The same seed and settings always give the same maze, so a reprint is identical. Press New maze only when you want a different maze.