🌱 Easy · Medium 20 × 20 · ID mouse-cheese-6
Help the mouse find the cheese
Maze No. 6: a hungry mouse looking for a wedge of cheese. A easy 20 × 20 maze with exactly one route from Start to Finish, 41 steps long, with 45 dead ends to avoid. Best for school-age children, classrooms and family puzzle time; allow about 3–15 minutes.
The sheet below is exactly what prints on one A4 or Letter page. Corridors are about 6.5 mm wide. Leave scaling at 100% in the print dialog.
Arrow keys or WASD to move, Backspace to step back. On a touch screen, drag along the path, or swipe to slide down a corridor.
Solution (hidden until you want it)
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About this maze
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. More to try: easy mazes for kids, hard mazes for adults and maze worksheets, or browse the printable maze page.
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