Crab Maze
A real, solvable maze shaped like a crab — 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
- Hard
- Best for ages
- 8+
- Est. solve time
- 15–25 min
- Grid
- 150×116
- Solution path
- 796 cells
- Corridor cells
- 7,614
- Dead ends
- 879
- Solutions
- 1 (verified)
About the Crab
A crab is a hard-shelled sea animal with ten legs, the front two ending in claws for grabbing and pinching. Its little tail is folded up tight underneath its wide body, out of the way. Crabs are famous for scuttling sideways, which is the quickest way for their legs to carry them. Print this for an ocean or tide-pool unit and trace the sideways path around to the far claw.
- A crab has ten legs, and the front pair are claws.
- Crabs usually walk sideways because of the way their legs bend.
- A crab's tail is tucked underneath its body rather than trailing behind.
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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