Cairo 2 Maze Generator — Free Online Tool

The geometry

Cairo 2 takes the famous pentagonal Cairo tiling and winds it tighter — a denser, more interconnected weave of five-sided cells that adds extra passages and trims the easy escapes. Where the standard Cairo maze reads as an elegant puzzle, this variant carries more branching and more bite, so solvers spend longer untangling its looping, multi-way junctions.

How it works

Every pentagon still meets its neighbours along five edges, but Cairo 2 layers in additional connections that create loops and alternate routes instead of a single clean solution path. The compiled C/C++ engine carves the tiling with the recursive backtracker and renders its woven five-sided walls crisply at 300 DPI. Wall colour, background, and line width remain fully adjustable, so even this busier pattern stays sharp and legible whether you print it large for a feature page or small as a chapter divider.

Who it's for

For KDP publishers, Cairo 2 is the harder companion to the classic Cairo maze — pair them in a single book to offer a clear difficulty step-up that keeps buyers engaged. Educators reach for it when a class has outgrown gentle grids and needs a genuinely challenging tessellation puzzle. Designers use its dense pentagonal weave as an ornate background texture with real visual depth. Try Cairo 2 free, then upgrade for all 30 geometries plus print-ready PDF export.

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