Pentagon 1 Maze Generator — Free Online Tool

The geometry

The Pentagon 1 maze is built from house-shaped pentagons — a square base capped with a triangular roof — locked together into a tessellation that looks unlike anything in the orthogonal or hex families. Each cell points in alternating directions, giving the finished maze a lively, faceted texture and corridors that turn at angles the eye does not expect.

How it works

With five edges per cell and a mix of flat and pointed sides, Pentagon 1 produces junctions that swing between gentle and sharp, keeping the solving rhythm varied from start to finish. The compiled C/C++ engine carves the pentagonal grid with the recursive backtracker and renders every angled wall crisply at 300 DPI. You keep full control over size, wall colour, background, and line width, so the interlocking house-pentagon pattern stays clean from a small worksheet inset to a full-page brain-teaser.

Who it's for

KDP publishers use Pentagon 1 to give an activity book an instantly distinctive look — the house-shaped cells photograph well in a cover thumbnail and signal that this is not another generic square-maze collection. Educators use the unfamiliar five-sided geometry to push spatial reasoning beyond the usual grid habits. Game designers borrow the pentagon tiling for stylised level layouts and decorative map textures. Generate a Pentagon 1 maze free, or upgrade for all 30 styles and 300 DPI PDF export.

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