Geometric Mazes 2D

Three Mazes That Don’t Solve Alike. One Module, Every Tier.

Most maze “variety” is a trick of the eye. Same square corridors, same four-way turns, a different color around the border, and the catalog calls it a new title. Geometric Mazes 2D isn’t that. Pick hexagon and each cell can connect in six directions instead of four. Pick triangle and the corridors alternate point-up, point-down, so the exact same one-path rule feels like a different puzzle in a solver’s hands. Pick circle and there’s no grid left at all, just rings spiraling toward a center, sized by how many rings deep you go instead of a width and a height.

Three real geometries, not one maze wearing three costumes, and Puzzle Maker Pro unlocks every one of them at every tier, from your very first book.

I built this engine wanting more than a single grid to draw mazes from, and hexagon, triangle, and circle were the three shapes I most wanted on the shelf, not the easy ones to get right (the ring math alone took real work to carve properly) but the ones a square grid was never going to give a publisher. See all three in the gallery above, or try the free demo and generate one of each yourself before you spend anything.

Every Shape Plays by the Same Rule and Feels Nothing Alike

A maze is a maze. Find the one path from Start to Finish. Your readers already know that part, and nothing here changes it. What changes is the shape of the cells they move through, and that changes everything about how the solve actually feels.

Hexagon, the default, packs cells into a honeycomb where a corridor can branch six directions instead of four. A solver loses their grip on “up, down, left, right” almost immediately, in the good way a maze wants them to.

Triangle cells alternate point-up and point-down, edge to edge, so the route zig-zags in a rhythm a square or hexagon maze never produces. It reads as a completely different page before a solver has traced a single corridor.

Circle throws the grid out entirely. It’s built from concentric rings, divided into segments like a dartboard, and solved by moving inward and outward between rings and around within one, spiraling toward the center and back out until the route connects. It’s sized by ring count, not a width and a height, and it looks like a mandala sitting on the page before a solver even picks up a pencil.

 

Same one-path rule. Three genuinely different puzzles. And every shape is available at every tier you buy, with no shape held back for a later upgrade.

See All Three Shapes Before You Pick One

Descriptions only go so far. Look at the page itself: a finished circle maze, and beside it the solved route threading tile to tile from the outer ring all the way to the dead center. Every edge is vector, so the same file prints crisp at a small trim size or scales up to a full-page spread without a single jagged line.

Every maze, every shape, is a perfect maze: exactly one route from Start to Finish, no loops, no second answer, and the solution ships in the same generation pass. You never trace a route by hand to check it before you publish.

Try the free demo and generate a few mazes in each shape yourself. Export a page and judge the print quality before you choose an edition.

What You Can Build With Three Maze Shapes in One Purchase

One module, three shapes, and the publishing contexts stack up fast:

• Standalone hexagon, triangle, or circle maze books for KDP and other print-on-demand platforms
• A single mixed maze book that puts all three shapes on different pages, so no two spreads solve alike
• Seasonal or themed hexagon and triangle maze books shaped into a silhouette with your own art (Creative edition)
• Worksheets and printable activity packs for Etsy, Teachers Pay Teachers, or your own site
• Geometry-tied classroom activities that pair the puzzle with the actual shape names on the lesson plan
• Interactive maze games that play on your own website, all three shapes including circle, with a Creative Interactive or Productivity Interactive edition

Dial Every Maze From a Bushy Warm-Up to a Brutal Winding Climb

A warm-up book and a brutal expert edition can come from the exact same purchase, no second module required. One slider decides which one you get, and it works the same way on all three shapes. Push Complexity up and the carve favors long, winding corridors with a real sense of being lost, exactly the kind of maze an expert wants to fight through. Pull it down and the carve turns bushier, more short dead-end branches, an easier and friendlier solve that still takes genuine thought. The default sits at 75, already leaning toward the harder, winding character, so building a gentle warm-up book means turning the slider down, not up.

Pair that with grid size, hexagon and triangle run 5 to 100 cells per side, circle runs 2 to 40 rings deep, and one shape alone covers a gentle starter page and a genuinely brutal expert page, without switching to a different tool for either end of the shelf.

Put Start and Finish Exactly Where the Puzzle Should Begin

You don’t have to accept Start and Finish wherever the default corners put them. Choose the standard top-left-to-bottom-right run, force the single longest route the maze contains, randomize the pair on every generation, or anchor Start and Finish to specific edges yourself. Or generate the maze first, then right-click anywhere on the preview to hand-place Start and Finish exactly where you want them, useful when a themed page needs the route to begin and end in a particular spot. All five modes are available on every edition, so precise placement is never a Productivity-only convenience.

Pour a Hexagon or Triangle Maze Into Any Shape You Choose

Switch on the Creative edition and you can confine a hexagon or triangle maze to a silhouette on the Masks tab, a heart, a pumpkin, an animal, your own logo, so the whole maze fills that outline instead of a rectangle. Load a quick image or build one in the custom editor, and a themed book stops being “a maze book with a seasonal cover” and starts being an actual Valentine’s, Halloween, or branded title.

Circle is the one shape masking can’t touch, at any tier. There’s no rectangle to reshape a circle maze into; it’s already its own shape on the page, rings radiating out from a center point, no silhouette required to look deliberate.

 

That split works well in practice: hexagon and triangle for the shaped, seasonal, branded titles, and circle for the standalone page that already looks designed without a mask.

One Setup, a Full Shelf of Maze Books

A single maze only proves the shape works. What actually fills a catalog is the shelf of books behind it, and nothing here makes you rebuild your setup from scratch to get there.

Instant Puzzle Books, on every edition, stacks a run of same-settings mazes into a finished PDF or PowerPoint book without you touching a single page layout.

Puzzle Book Studio, Creative and up, builds the real thing around a set of your mazes: your fonts, titles, page numbers, layout, and trim size. Productivity (and Productivity Interactive) adds multiple puzzle sets to a single project, so a hexagon set and a circle set can share one book.

Time Saver, on Productivity and Productivity Interactive, runs batch after batch across the settings you choose and files each variation as its own set, so a themed, multi-shape collection lays itself out while you do something else.

Ready to turn three geometries into a shelf of distinct maze products? Choose your edition above, or generate all three in the free demo first.

Play It on the Web

Paper isn’t the only place these live. Layer the Interactive edition onto Creative or Productivity and a set of mazes stops being print-only, publishable straight to your own website, where a visitor solves it right in the browser, tracing the route cell to cell with a mouse or a finger, a built-in check confirms the moment they connect Start to Finish, and a timer keeps score. All three shapes play online in their real geometry, hexagon and triangle from their straight cell edges, and circle too, carried by a curved-wall export built specifically so the rings hold up on screen exactly like they do on the page.

Take a look at the Geometric Mazes Online Play Demo.

You export the set, upload it through the free BookPublisherTools WordPress plugin, and the hosted player does the rest, no coding required on your end. (The files you export are just files; the actual browser gameplay lives entirely in the hosted player, so nothing on your side has to run code.) You choose how it’s presented: a simple dropdown list visitors pick a maze from, or a leveled game where each maze unlocks the next, with progress and stars saved right in the visitor’s browser. You can even hold a few puzzles back behind a quick email opt-in, so the free set doubles as a lead magnet, and when a visitor clears the last unlocked maze, your own message and button appear, “Enjoyed these? Get the full book,” pointed wherever you choose.

Post a short free set, three mazes or ten, mix shapes if you want to show off the variety, and the page does double duty: a reason for visitors to stick around and come back, and a quiet, standing invitation to buy.

Which Edition Should You Choose?

Every edition already gets the core thing right: real, solvable hexagon, triangle, and circle mazes at print quality, solution included. What changes as you move up is how far you take that base, not whether it works.

Every tier, starting with Lite, exports print-ready PNG, JPG, SVG, and PDF puzzle-and-solution pairs for all three shapes, at every grid size the module supports. Creative and Productivity keep you in that same static, print-ready world, with masking and book design layered on top as you move up.

Interactive sits sideways to the rest of the ladder, not on top of it. Think of it as a switch you flip on Creative or on Productivity, not a fifth rung you climb to reach. Flip it on Creative and you keep everything Creative already does, plus JSON output and the playable web version (see “Play It on the Web” above). Flip it on Productivity and you keep the batches and multi-set books too, plus that same web lane. Interactive PDF and Puzzle Slides are not available for this module.

• Lite: the cheapest way in. All three shapes, full print export, same-settings Instant Puzzle Books.
• Creative: shape hexagon and triangle mazes into silhouettes and design real books in Puzzle Book Studio. Where most publishers land.
• Productivity: you’re running volume. Time Saver batches and Puzzle Book Studio with multiple sets at once.
• Creative Interactive: adds the switch that lets all three shapes play in a browser, so a short free set can hand a visitor straight to the book.
• Productivity Interactive: the batches of Productivity plus that same browser switch, so a whole catalog gets a web presence, not just a shelf presence.

Made up your mind? Pick your edition above.

Who This Is For

POD and KDP maze publishers who are tired of “variety” that turns out to be one shape in different colors. Three genuinely different geometries from a single purchase means a hexagon title, a triangle title, and a circle title can all sit on your shelf without reading like the same book three times.

Existing Puzzle Maker Pro customers adding a new maze family to a workflow they already run. Style hexagon, triangle, and circle mazes on the same Settings, Style, and Titles tabs you already know, batch them with Time Saver, and slot them into mixed books next to your other puzzle types. Editions are purchased per module, so choosing one here is a quick, independent decision, not a re-evaluation of what you already own elsewhere.

Educators, tutors, and geometry-adjacent classroom creators. Hexagon, triangle, and circle aren’t just maze shapes, they’re the same shapes on a geometry worksheet, so a themed maze book doubles as shape-recognition practice, sized from a gentle warm-up to an expert-level challenge. Add the Interactive edition and the same set publishes online as a self-paced path you can relabel “Lesson” instead of “Level,” so it reads as coursework, not a game.

If you’ve been publishing another square-grid maze book, or piecing together separate niche tools just to get a hexagon or a circle maze at all, here’s what changes: one purchase, three real shapes, every tier, no shape held back behind an upgrade.

Try It Before You Buy

The free demo is always open. Try the free demo, generate hexagon, triangle, and circle mazes of your own, export a page, and judge the print quality with your own eyes before you choose an edition.

Licensing and Commercial Use

Lite, Creative, and Creative Interactive include the commercial license for selling the finished puzzles you generate directly to your own readers and customers (B2C): books, worksheets, printables, and other end-user products on KDP, Etsy, Teachers Pay Teachers, or your own storefront. Productivity and Productivity Interactive add the business license (B2B), so you may also sell or supply generated puzzles to other publishers, businesses, and sellers.

Product Details

Product	Puzzle Maker Pro – Geometric Mazes 2D
Shapes	Hexagon, Triangle, Circle (all 3, every tier, no shape gating)
Editions	Lite, Creative, Productivity, Creative Interactive, Productivity Interactive
Platform	Windows desktop
Internet required	No (creation is offline; web publishing optional, Interactive editions)
Sizing	Hexagon / Triangle: Width x Height, 5-100, default 15. Circle: Rings, 2-40, default 6
Difficulty control	Complexity slider, 0-100, default 75 (higher = longer and more winding; lower = bushier and easier)
Start / Finish placement	5 modes, including hand-placement by right-click, on every edition
Outputs	PNG, JPG, SVG, PDF (puzzle + solution); JSON + HTML, online play (Creative Interactive / Productivity Interactive)
Shaped mazes	Silhouette masking, hexagon and triangle only (Creative and up); circle cannot be masked at any tier
Solution pages	Yes, generated with every maze
Puzzle books	Instant Puzzle Books (all editions); Puzzle Book Studio (Creative and up, multiple sets on Productivity and Productivity Interactive)
Time Saver	Productivity and Productivity Interactive
Commercial license	Lite, Creative, Creative Interactive: sell finished products to your own readers and customers (B2C). Productivity, Productivity Interactive: also sell or supply generated puzzles to other publishers, businesses, and sellers (B2B).
Free demo	Yes
Delivery	Immediate, in your member area

Questions Before You Buy

What’s actually different about the three shapes, hexagon, triangle, and circle?

Hexagon cells connect up to six ways instead of four, so corridors bend at angles a square grid can’t. Triangle cells alternate point-up and point-down, so the route zig-zags edge to edge. Circle drops the grid entirely: you solve it by moving between concentric rings and around within one, spiraling toward the center. All three follow the same one-path rule, but each is a genuinely different solve, and all three are available on every edition, with no shape locked behind an upgrade.

Is there a free demo?

Yes. Every Puzzle Maker Pro module includes a free demo, so you can generate hexagon, triangle, and circle mazes and see the output before you buy.

Can I make a shaped or themed maze, like a heart or an animal?

Yes, for hexagon and triangle mazes, on the Creative edition. Circle mazes cannot be masked into a silhouette at any tier; the ring shape stays as it is.

Is every maze actually solvable?

Yes. Every Geometric Maze is a perfect maze: exactly one route from Start to Finish, no loops, no second solution, and the matching answer key is generated in the same pass.

How do I control difficulty?

Two ways: grid size (Width x Height for hexagon and triangle, Rings for circle) and the Complexity slider. Higher Complexity makes a longer, more winding maze that’s harder to solve; lower makes a bushier maze with more short dead ends that’s easier.

Can I choose exactly where a maze starts and ends?

Yes, on every edition. Pick the default corner-to-corner run, force the longest possible route, randomize the pair, anchor them to specific edges, or right-click the generated preview to hand-place Start and Finish yourself.

Can I build a whole book quickly?

Yes. Instant Puzzle Books, on every edition, turns a run of same-settings mazes into a finished PDF or PowerPoint. Puzzle Book Studio, Creative and up, gives you full book design, and Productivity (or Productivity Interactive) adds Time Saver batch creation and multiple puzzle sets in one project.

Can people play these on my website?

Yes, with a Creative Interactive or Productivity Interactive edition. Export the set and publish it through the free BookPublisherTools WordPress plugin as a dropdown list or a leveled game, all three shapes, circle included, with a finish-screen button that points to your book.

Which edition should I start with?

Lite is the low-cost way to publish real puzzle books with all three shapes already unlocked. Creative suits most publishers, since masking and Puzzle Book Studio are where a themed book comes together. Productivity is for volume and batch creation. Add Interactive to either one if you also want a playable web version alongside the printed book.

Can I use the puzzles in books I sell?

Yes. Lite, Creative, and Creative Interactive let you sell finished books, worksheets, printables, and other puzzle products directly to your own readers and customers (B2C). Productivity and Productivity Interactive also let you sell or supply the generated puzzles to other publishers, businesses, and sellers (B2B).

Three Shapes Is Still One Purchase Away

Publish another square-grid maze book and it sits in the same row as fifty others, where the only lever left is price. Geometric Mazes 2D means your maze pages don’t have to make that argument. Six months from now, your shelf could hold a hexagon warm-up book, a triangle mid-list title, and a themed, heart-shaped Valentine’s collection, three genuinely different puzzles, all built from one module you already own.

Try the free demo, generate all three shapes, and see which one earns the next slot on your shelf.