Good maze creation software?

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I'm trying to make a maze for a puzzle hunt, and I can't find any good software for creating them.

I seek an appropriate simple drawing tool, not a program to automatically create the maze.

I just want to make something simple like this:

but the trouble is that all of the software I can find is either absurdly complicated or it only allows you to set a couple parameters and generate a maze. Any suggestions?

Samthere · Accepted Answer

If you're just looking for a tool to help you manually lay out your own custom mazes, you can just use spreadsheet software such as Excel or OpenOffice Calc. Set the grid size so that the cells are squares, and then draw the borders in.

For Excel, if you switch to the Page Layout view you can set the row/column sizes in units such as cm, which will enable you to have a square grid. Then use Borders > Draw Border.

BmyGuest · Answer

This is similar to the Excel suggestion, but I use WinWord (if the maze is not too big.)

Step 1) Insert a table of cells you want, i.e. 25 x 25. Use a fairly small "fixed" cell width. (i.e. 0.5cm)

Step 2) Select table and properties and set row height to same as cell width. (0.5)

Now you have the perfect "grid" to work on, and you can use the "Draw table" tool to set the border to the lines you want.

EmilioS · Answer

simpler is to draw a path with a brush in a photo software.

draw the whole path with all the dead ends.

then select the whole and invert or make negative !

Stridemann · Answer

If s1 need a grid maze using cell drawing:
https://craftdesignonline.com/pattern-grid/

It also supports importing/converting existing image to.

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