How to Create Square Mazes in Puzzle Maker Pro

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Summary: Square Mazes are created in Puzzle Maker Pro by setting the grid size and options, then generating the maze with its matching solution. This guide walks through making one, titling it, styling it, and exporting print-ready pages.

Overview

A Square Maze is the classic grid maze — a lattice of square corridors you trace from Start to Finish. This tutorial covers making one in Puzzle Maker Pro, from grid size 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 Square Mazes Work first.

Required Modules

  • Puzzle Maker Pro – Square Mazes (slug pending publication — confirm before release)
  • Lite makes Square mazes as static PNG, JPG, SVG, and PDF (puzzle + solution) and Instant Puzzle Books (a PDF/PPT book of many puzzles, all the same settings). Creative adds silhouette masking (confine the maze to an image shape) and Puzzle Book Studio (full control of fonts, titles, page numbers, layout, and trim size). Productivity adds Time Saver for batch creation and Puzzle Book Studio with multiple puzzle sets. Creative Interactive / Productivity Interactive add JSON web output and online gameplay. See Puzzle Maker Pro Editions Explained.

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

Preparation

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

Choose the Grid Size

On the Main tab, the Shape is locked to Squares — this module makes one shape and makes it well. Set the grid:

Set the Options

  • Complexity (0–100, default 75): lower makes long winding routes with few branches; higher makes a bushier maze with more short dead ends.
  • Path (where Start and Finish sit): Default (top-left → bottom-right) suits most mazes; Longest path, Random, Choose endpoints, and Choose on preview (right-click a spot on the puzzle preview to set Start or End yourself) are also available on every edition.

Shape It (optional, Creative)

The Masks tab confines the maze to a silhouette — a heart, an animal — so the whole grid takes that form. Square cells are geometry-accurate maskable, so the maze fills the shape without stretching or distorting the picture. It works the same as every geometric maze; see How to Make Shaped Mazes with Masking. You can use the Quick image list (with Round robin) or a Custom painted mask, or leave it as None.

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. 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.

Set the Title

On the Titles tab, choose how each maze is named. Smart Titles is the same control on every module — see How to Create Smart Puzzle Titles for the how-to — so what is Square-specific is just the list of options (examples shown for a 15 × 15 maze; the same feeds the Description field, which defaults to “Find the path from the start to the finish.”):

  • Maze — e.g. “Maze”
  • Maze Shape — e.g. “Squares Maze”
  • Maze Shape Grid Size — e.g. “Squares Maze 15 x 15”
  • Shape — e.g. “Squares”
  • Shape Grid Size — e.g. “Squares 15 x 15”
  • Custom — your own text (default title “Maze”)

Style It

Walls, the solution line, the floor, the Start/Finish markers, and doorway size are all on the Style tab and shared across every maze; see How to Customize Maze Appearance.

Export

  • Print / PDF — PNG, JPG, SVG, PDF of the puzzle and solution, on every edition.
  • JSON web output & online gameplay — with the Creative Interactive or Productivity Interactive edition you can publish the set to play in the browser, with the email-gate lead-capture option; see How to Play Puzzles Online.
  • Time Saver — Productivity includes Time Saver for batch rows; see How to Batch Create Puzzles with Time Saver.

Outcome

You can now make Square Mazes end to end — plain or shaped, one or a whole book — titled, styled, and exported for print or the web.

Further Reading

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