Summary: Geometric Mazes are created in Puzzle Maker Pro by picking a shape — hexagon, triangle, or circle — setting the size and complexity, and generating the maze with its matching solution. This guide walks through making one, titling it, styling it, and exporting print-ready pages.
Overview
A Geometric Maze is a maze built from non-square cells — hexagons, triangles, or concentric rings — that you trace from Start to Finish. This tutorial covers 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 Geometric Mazes Work first.
Required Modules
- Puzzle Maker Pro – Geometric Mazes
- Lite makes all three shapes — hexagon, triangle, and circle — as static PNG/JPG/SVG/PDF, and includes Instant Puzzle Books (a PDF/PPT book, all puzzles the same settings). Creative adds silhouette masking for hexagon and triangle (circle cannot be masked) and Puzzle Book Studio (full control of fonts, titles, page numbers, layout, trim). 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 for all three shapes. See Puzzle Maker Pro Editions Explained.
A free demo of the module is available, so you can try Geometric Mazes before buying.
Preparation
Nothing is needed to make a plain maze — no images or lists. For your first maze, the Hexagons shape at the default size (15 × 15) with the Default path is a comfortable start. Each maze is generated with exactly one continuous path from Start to Finish.
Choose the Shape
On the Main tab, pick the Shape. All three shapes are available on every edition:
- Hexagons (default) — a honeycomb of six-sided cells.
- Triangles — alternating up-and-down triangular cells.
- Circle — concentric rings divided into segments.
The size control depends on the shape: hexagon and triangle mazes are sized by Width × Height, while a circle maze is sized by its Rings count instead (the Width/Height boxes switch off for circle, and the Rings box switches on).
Set the Options
- Width / Height: 5–100, default 15 — the grid size for hexagon and triangle mazes. Bigger means a larger, harder maze. (Disabled when Circle is selected.)
- Rings: default 6 — the number of concentric rings for a circle maze. More rings means a bigger, harder circle. (Enabled only when Circle is selected.)
- Complexity (0–100, default 75): higher makes long, winding routes (harder to solve); lower makes a bushier maze with more short branches (easier to solve).
- Path (where Start and Finish sit): Default suits most mazes; Longest path, Random, Choose endpoints, and Choose on preview (right-click the generated preview to place Start and End yourself) are also available, on every edition.
Shape It (optional, Creative)
With the Creative edition, the Masks tab confines the maze to a silhouette — a heart, an animal — so the whole maze takes that form. Masking works on hexagon and triangle mazes only; it is not available for circle, at any tier. It works the same as every geometric maze; see How to Make Shaped Mazes with Masking.
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, with S and E markers at the 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.
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 Geometric-specific is just the list of options (examples shown for a 15 × 15 Hexagons 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. “Hexagons Maze” (or “Triangles Maze”, “Circle Maze”)
- Maze Shape Grid Size — e.g. “Hexagons Maze 15 x 15” (circle: “Circle Maze 6 Rings”)
- Shape — e.g. “Hexagons”
- Shape Grid Size — e.g. “Hexagons 15 x 15” (circle: “Circle 6 Rings”)
- Custom — your own text (default title “Maze”)
On a triangle or circle maze the same options read “Triangles”, “Circle Maze 6 Rings”, and so on.
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, and all three shapes play online, circle included, 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 Geometric Mazes end to end — hexagon, triangle, or circle, plain or shaped, one or a whole book — titled, styled, and exported for print or the web.