Barnacle Maze
A real, solvable maze shaped like a barnacle — generated by algorithm, verified to have a single solution, and free to print. Start at the red flag and find your way to the checkered flag.
Free for personal & classroom use. For commercial use — products, KDP books, or resale — get a Commercial License.
- Difficulty
- Expert
- Best for ages
- 10+
- Est. solve time
- 25–40 min
- Grid
- 145×150
- Solution path
- 2,235 cells
- Corridor cells
- 14,847
- Dead ends
- 1,634
- Solutions
- 1 (verified)
About the Barnacle
A barnacle is a small sea creature that spends its grown-up life glued firmly in one place, on rocks, boats, or even the skin of a whale. It builds a little cone of hard plates around itself and, when the tide covers it, opens the top and sweeps feathery legs through the water to catch food. Surprisingly, barnacles are relatives of crabs and lobsters. Use this in a tide-pool unit and trace the path to the barnacle on the rock.
- A barnacle cements itself to one spot for the rest of its life.
- It feeds by combing food from the water with feathery legs.
- Barnacles are crustaceans, related to crabs and lobsters.
Solution
How to use this maze
- Start at the red flag and trace a path to the checkered flag — there is one correct route.
- Print on A4 or US Letter at 100% scale; the solution image above is the answer key.
- Free for classroom, homeschool, and personal printing.
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