Maze Puzzle Book, 1,500 Mazes in Five Shapes

Five kinds of maze in one maze puzzle book

If you only know mazes from the back of a kids’ menu, these will surprise you. This maze puzzle book has five different shapes, and each one asks your eyes to work a little differently. It’s a hyperlinked PDF, not a paper book. You open it on an e-ink tablet and trace the path with your stylus, and if you hit a dead end, you erase your line and try again.

• Rectangular mazes, the classic kind. In at the top left, out at the bottom right.
• Pyramid and triangle grid mazes built from small triangles, so the paths zigzag at sharp angles.
• Round mazes where you start in the small circle in the center and work your way out through the rings.
• Honeycomb mazes made of six-sided cells, which open up more ways to turn at every step.

Each shape has 300 mazes, split into 100 Easy, 100 Medium and 100 Hard. The harder levels have more cells or more rings, so the paths get longer and the false turns get sneakier. Every maze has exactly one route from the way in to the way out, and no part of the maze is sealed off.

A maze book for adults who like to unwind

There’s something calming about drawing one slow line across a page. A maze doesn’t ask you to know words or numbers, so it’s a nice pick when your brain is tired but your hands want something to do. A short Easy maze fits a coffee break. A Hard honeycomb can take a while.

Each maze sits on its own page, drawn across the full width so you can follow the path without zooming. A Choose difficulty page for each shape opens a list for each level, and every maze on the list has a tick box so you can mark the ones you’ve finished. Breadcrumbs at the top of each page take you back a step, and arrows move to the next or previous maze. A How to play page at the front explains where each shape starts and ends.

The file is drawn at each tablet’s own page size and comes for Supernote, reMarkable, Kindle Scribe, BOOX, Kobo, Quaderno and iPad. It’s $9 on every tablet.