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How to Create Line Mazes in Puzzle Maker Pro

Summary:
Line Mazes are created in Puzzle Maker Pro by choosing a shape, setting the size, and generating the maze with its matching solution. This tutorial shows how to make your first maze and export print-ready pages, then how to style it, title it, and — optionally — shape it into a silhouette.

Overview

A Line Maze is a “walk the walls” maze: you trace one continuous channel from Start to Finish over an optional water-coloured background. This tutorial walks through making one in Puzzle Maker Pro, from choosing a shape to exporting the puzzle and solution. The module uses the standard Settings / Style / Titles tabs, plus a Masks tab for shaping, so if you have used another module the flow will feel familiar. New to the puzzle itself? Read How Line Mazes Work first.

Required Modules

  • Puzzle Maker Pro – Line Mazes
  • Creative Edition unlocks masks (shaping the maze) and the path/endpoint options; Productivity Edition adds JSON web output. The base maze and static print work on every edition.

A free demo of the module is available, so you can try Line Mazes before buying.

Preparation

Nothing is needed to make a plain maze — no images or lists. For your first maze, a Squares shape at 15 × 15 with the Default path is a comfortable starting point. Each maze is generated with exactly one continuous path from Start to Finish.

Choose the Main Settings

On the Settings tab, set the options that define the maze:

  • Shape: Squares, Triangles, or Hexagons (grid shapes, sized by Width × Height), or Voronoi / Triangulation (organic shapes, sized by Point count). The size controls swap to match the shape you pick.
  • Size: Width and Height run 5 to 100 (default 15) for grid shapes; Point count defaults to 70 for the organic shapes. Bigger means a longer, harder maze.
  • Complexity (0–100, default 75): lower makes long, winding channels; higher makes a bushier maze with more short branches.
  • Creative and Productivity option:
    • Path (where Start and Finish sit): Default suits most mazes. Longest path (the hardest route), Random, and Choose endpoints (pick a Start and End corner) are creative options.

Generate and Preview

Set the Quantity to 1 while you dial in the look, then generate a preview. Each maze is unique, and Puzzle Maker Pro builds the matching solution at the same time — the S and E markers show where the channel starts and ends. When the look is right, raise the Quantity and the same settings produce a whole batch of unique mazes; single and batch are the same workflow, just a different number.

Shape the Maze into a Silhouette (optional, Creative)

By default a Line Maze fills a rectangle. With the Creative or Productivity Edition you can mask it into a shape so the channels fill an outline — a diamond, an animal, a logo. On the Masks tab, grid shapes paint a mask while organic shapes use a silhouette image, and in list mode you can drop a folder of silhouettes and get one maze per image. This is a feature with its own full guide — see How to Make Shaped Mazes with Masking in Puzzle Maker Pro.

On a Lite license, tick “Unlock Creative Options Demo” on the Settings tab to try masking and the path options. The preview is watermarked only when you actually use one of them — a plain Default maze stays clean.

Style the Maze

Line Mazes use the shared style panel on the Style tab, mapped to the maze like this: the cell border is the channel (the line you trace), the canvas colour is the water behind it, an added Solution row sets the solution line, and an added Start/End background row is the halo behind the S/E glyphs. You can also dash the solution and edit the marker letters. A blue water fill with dark channels gives a clean “river maze” look. For full styling guidance use the shared styling tutorial rather than repeating it here.

Set the Title

On the Titles tab, choose a Smart Title — it fills in the maze’s own details automatically, so every page in a batch is labelled correctly without retyping. Each label is the template; the Shape, Grid Size, and Mask tokens fill in from the maze. Examples for a Square 15×15 (and, where shown, a Voronoi 80-point or a mask file named star.png):

  • Maze Shape Grid Size — e.g. “Maze Square 15×15” (or “Maze Voronoi 80”)
  • Maze Shape — e.g. “Maze Square”
  • Maze Grid Size — e.g. “Maze 15×15”
  • Shape Grid Size — e.g. “Square 15×15”
  • Shape — e.g. “Square”
  • Grid Size — e.g. “15×15”
  • Shape Maze — e.g. “Square Maze”
  • Shape Maze Grid Size — e.g. “Square Maze 15×15”
  • Maze Mask — e.g. “Maze star”
  • Mask Maze — e.g. “star Maze”
  • Mask — e.g. “star”
  • Custom — your own title text, used exactly as typed

The Mask token is the silhouette’s file name (without path or extension), which is handy when you batch one maze per shape; it is blank for a hand-painted mask. The same options feed the Description (default: “Trace the path from the start to the finish.”). Smart Titles works the same in every module — see the Smart Titles tutorial for how it works.

Export Your Puzzle

Export the maze and its solution as PNG, JPG, SVG, or PDF for worksheets and books (every edition). With Productivity Edition you can also export JSON for interactive web play, one file per maze. Line Mazes does not use Interactive PDF or Puzzle Slides.

Outcome

You can now create Line Mazes in any of the five shapes, preview them with matching solutions, style them as clean channels or coloured rivers, and export print-ready pages. To shape a maze into a silhouette, see the masking tutorial; to produce a whole book of unique mazes from saved settings, use Time Saver, and assemble books in Puzzle Book Studio.

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