🌱 40 × 40 · Easy
Easy Extra Large Printable Mazes
30 free easy 40 × 40 mazes for young children and anyone who wants a relaxed maze. A short route with few dead ends.
Easy mazes are carved with the recursive backtracker, which makes long, gentle corridors and few dead ends. We then pick the shortest way from the entrance to the exit and reject any maze whose route is much longer than the width of the grid.
All easy extra large mazes
Puzzle guide
About easy extra large mazes
What they are
Easy extra-large mazes cover a full page with a 40 × 40 grid yet keep the route friendly. They look daunting, but long corridors and few dead ends mean steady progress, which makes them a satisfying 'big puzzle' for less experienced solvers.
How to play
Follow the open corridors from the entrance to the exit in one continuous line. The route is long because the grid is big, not because it is tricky, so steady tracing gets you there.
Tips
Use a highlighter once you are confident of a stretch; seeing the route grow across the page is half the fun. Take breaks and come back, since easy routes rarely punish a lost place.
Who they suit
These mazes suit ten-year-olds and up, adults looking for a calm, mindful activity, and anyone who wants a long puzzle without heavy frustration.
Printing
Print one per page. On A3 or tabloid paper the corridors become wide enough for younger solvers too.
Finished the maze?
Try a easy riddle
Mazes and riddles both reward patience and spotting the way through. Here are a few easy riddles with answers.