Summary: Cobblestone Mazes are created in Puzzle Maker Pro by choosing the cell glyph, 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 Cobblestone Maze is a plain square maze in a mosaic skin — a lattice of square corridors you trace from Start to Finish, drawn with decorative octagon or small-circle cells. This tutorial covers making one in Puzzle Maker Pro, from the glyph shape and 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 Cobblestone Mazes Work first.
Required Modules
- Puzzle Maker Pro – Cobblestone Mazes 2D
- Lite makes Cobblestone mazes in both glyph shapes (Octagons and Small circles) 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 and Puzzle Book Studio with multiple puzzle sets. Creative Interactive / Productivity Interactive add JSON web output + online gameplay on top of Creative / Productivity respectively. See Puzzle Maker Pro Editions Explained.
A free demo of the module is available, so you can try Cobblestone 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 Glyph Shape
On the Settings tab, the Shape dropdown sets the cell glyph — this is the choice that gives Cobblestone its look:
- Octagons — cells drawn as octagons, for a paved, tiled-stone feel.
- Small circles — cells drawn as circles, for a rounder pebble-mosaic feel.
Both glyphs are available on every edition, and both are the same square maze underneath — the choice is purely how the cells are drawn, so it never changes how the maze solves.
Set the Grid + Options
- Grid size — Width / Height: 5–100 each, default 15 × 15 (columns × rows). Bigger grids make longer, harder mazes; keep it small for young solvers.
- Complexity (0–100, default 75): higher makes long, winding routes with few branches — harder to solve; lower makes a bushier maze with more short dead ends — easier to solve.
- Path (where Start and Finish sit): Default (top-left → bottom-right) suits most mazes; Longest path, Random, and Choose endpoints are also available on every edition. A fifth option, Choose on preview, lets you place Start and Finish yourself by right-clicking the puzzle preview. Select it here, then generate a preview (the next step) and right-click on it to set the points.
Shape It (optional, Creative)
The Masks tab confines the maze to a silhouette — a heart, an animal — so the whole grid takes that form. Because a Cobblestone Maze resolves to the square topology, it is maskable (unlike the blocky irregular maze SKUs). 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 Cobblestone-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 (e.g. “Cobblestone Maze”); default title “Maze”
One thing to know: because the octagon and small-circle glyphs resolve to the underlying square topology, the Smart Title reads “Squares”, not “Octagons” or “Cobblestone.” To put “Cobblestone” or a glyph name in the title, use Custom and type it yourself.
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. The player draws a plain square grid, not the octagon/small-circle glyph look — that mosaic look is print/PDF only today.
- Time Saver — Productivity includes Time Saver for batch rows; see How to Batch Create Puzzles with Time Saver.
Outcome
You can now make Cobblestone Mazes end to end — octagon or small-circle glyphs, plain or shaped, one or a whole book — titled, styled, and exported for print or the web.