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Maze solver
Solver here means the pencil route is one click away. The maze still loads upstairs; Show path starts on so you can study the shape. Hide it when you want to earn the exit again.
We’re not pasting solutions for every printable maze in a school binder. Generate or land on a seed, then decide how much help you want.
When
When to use
You’re stuck and want the route. You’re checking that a carve is fair before you print a blank for someone else. You searched maze solver and meant a helper, not a lecture.
When not
When not to
You want bulk answer keys for a maze-book SKU list → not us. You want a long algorithms course → one sentence is enough; how-to-solve covers human methods.
Defaults
Assumptions
Default Show path on. Medium grid unless you change difficulty. Path is BFS shortest route on a perfect maze.
Steps
How
- Look at the traced route (on by default here).
- Hide path and try to walk it yourself — or leave it on as a study guide.
- New maze when you’ve learned that shape.
Worked notes
Examples
- You walked in circles on Hard and need the shame button → Show path is already on
- Teacher prints a blank; keeps Show path on their own screen as the key → one live seed, two moods
Watch-outs
Gotchas
- Solver ≠ dumping every maze answer on the internet. One live grid at a time.
- The drawn path is a shortest route; other walks can still reach the exit with more steps.
- Algorithm talk stays thin on purpose — recursive backtracker carve, BFS for the hint line.
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Controls
On this board
Show path starts on for this URL. Hide path to practice. Difficulty strip still works unless a page locks it. New maze carves another seed.
FAQ
Common questions
- Does the maze solver give me the answer automatically?
- On this page Show path starts on, so the route is visible. Hide it anytime if you want to solve clean.
- Can I use this as an answer key for a printed maze?
- For a maze you generated here, yes — keep Show path on your screen and print a blank for them. We’re not a warehouse of third-party answer sheets.
- What algorithm finds the path?
- A breadth-first search on the open doors. Enough to draw a shortest route; not a textbook.
- Is the solver a separate download?
- No. It’s the same browser maze with the path pencil ready.