Cactus Maze
A real, solvable maze shaped like a cactus — 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.
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- Difficulty
- Medium
- Best for ages
- 6+
- Est. solve time
- 8–15 min
- Grid
- 88×150
- Solution path
- 1,362 cells
- Corridor cells
- 6,436
- Dead ends
- 671
- Solutions
- 1 (verified)
About the Cactus
A cactus is a spiny plant built to survive in very dry places, from deserts to rocky hillsides across the Americas. Its thick, fleshy stem stores water for the long stretches between rains, and it is the stem, not leaves, that does the work of making food from sunlight. What look like prickles are actually the cactus's leaves, shrunk down to spines that guard it and cut water loss. Work your way through this cactus maze, past the spines, a hardy pick for a desert-habitat lesson.
- A cactus's spines are really its leaves, shrunk down for desert life.
- Cacti store water in their thick stems, which also carry out photosynthesis.
- There are about 1,750 kinds of cactus, nearly all from the Americas.
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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