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Thanksgiving mazes

30 mazes for the long afternoon while the food cooks: a turkey with its fan of feathers, a pointed autumn leaf and an acorn. Easy sizes for the small cousins, hard ones for whoever claims to be too old for this.

30 printable sheets · Checked and published by Nora Quill

Turkey mazes

Ten boards across the fan of tail feathers, the round body and the head off to one side. The scalloped fan edge makes bays of corridors along the top, and the head is a spur most routes visit for nothing.

Printable turkey shaped maze, 237 squares and 46 dead ends, puzzle 159101 Maze 1: Turkey, easy A turkey silhouette on a 20 by 20 grid: 46 dead ends surround a route of 79 steps. Puzzle #159101. PDF
Printable turkey shaped maze, 237 squares and 54 dead ends, puzzle 159102 Maze 2: Turkey, easy A maze in the shape of a turkey, easy level: 237 squares inside the outline and a correct route 73 steps long. Puzzle #159102. PDF
Printable turkey shaped maze, 237 squares and 43 dead ends, puzzle 159103 Maze 3: Turkey, easy The turkey silhouette IS the maze: 237 squares, 43 dead ends and exactly one route of 80 steps. Puzzle #159103. PDF
Printable turkey shaped maze, 237 squares and 50 dead ends, puzzle 159104 Maze 4: Turkey, easy Work through the turkey from one opening to the other: 64 steps past 44 junctions and 50 dead ends. Puzzle #159104. PDF
Printable turkey shaped maze, 422 squares and 86 dead ends, puzzle 159111 Maze 5: Turkey, medium A medium level turkey shape. Of the 422 squares in the picture, only 89 sit on the good route. Puzzle #159111. PDF
Printable turkey shaped maze, 422 squares and 76 dead ends, puzzle 159112 Maze 6: Turkey, medium A turkey turned into a 422 square maze. Both openings sit on the outline itself and 76 turnings lead nowhere. Puzzle #159112. PDF
Printable turkey shaped maze, 422 squares and 77 dead ends, puzzle 159113 Maze 7: Turkey, medium A turkey silhouette on a 27 by 27 grid: 77 dead ends surround a route of 131 steps. Puzzle #159113. PDF
Printable turkey shaped maze, 672 squares and 125 dead ends, puzzle 159121 Maze 8: Turkey, hard The turkey silhouette IS the maze: 672 squares, 125 dead ends and exactly one route of 139 steps. Puzzle #159121. PDF
Printable turkey shaped maze, 672 squares and 119 dead ends, puzzle 159122 Maze 9: Turkey, hard Work through the turkey from one opening to the other: 141 steps past 114 junctions and 119 dead ends. Puzzle #159122. PDF
Printable turkey shaped maze, 672 squares and 114 dead ends, puzzle 159123 Maze 10: Turkey, hard A hard level turkey shape. Of the 672 squares in the picture, only 166 sit on the good route. Puzzle #159123. PDF

Autumn leaf mazes

Ten boards inside a pointed leaf with its stem. The outline narrows at both ends, so the maze funnels twice, and the stem is a one-lane finish.

Printable autumn leaf shaped maze, 206 squares and 39 dead ends, puzzle 159201 Maze 11: Autumn leaf, easy A easy level autumn leaf shape. Of the 206 squares in the picture, only 74 sit on the good route. Puzzle #159201. PDF
Printable autumn leaf shaped maze, 206 squares and 45 dead ends, puzzle 159202 Maze 12: Autumn leaf, easy A autumn leaf turned into a 206 square maze. Both openings sit on the outline itself and 45 turnings lead nowhere. Puzzle #159202. PDF
Printable autumn leaf shaped maze, 206 squares and 41 dead ends, puzzle 159203 Maze 13: Autumn leaf, easy A autumn leaf silhouette on a 20 by 24 grid: 41 dead ends surround a route of 75 steps. Puzzle #159203. PDF
Printable autumn leaf shaped maze, 206 squares and 45 dead ends, puzzle 159204 Maze 14: Autumn leaf, easy A maze in the shape of a autumn leaf, easy level: 206 squares inside the outline and a correct route 60 steps long. Puzzle #159204. PDF
Printable autumn leaf shaped maze, 364 squares and 72 dead ends, puzzle 159211 Maze 15: Autumn leaf, medium The autumn leaf silhouette IS the maze: 364 squares, 72 dead ends and exactly one route of 114 steps. Puzzle #159211. PDF
Printable autumn leaf shaped maze, 364 squares and 66 dead ends, puzzle 159212 Maze 16: Autumn leaf, medium Work through the autumn leaf from one opening to the other: 101 steps past 58 junctions and 66 dead ends. Puzzle #159212. PDF
Printable autumn leaf shaped maze, 364 squares and 69 dead ends, puzzle 159213 Maze 17: Autumn leaf, medium A medium level autumn leaf shape. Of the 364 squares in the picture, only 81 sit on the good route. Puzzle #159213. PDF
Printable autumn leaf shaped maze, 580 squares and 94 dead ends, puzzle 159221 Maze 18: Autumn leaf, hard A autumn leaf silhouette on a 34 by 41 grid: 94 dead ends surround a route of 165 steps. Puzzle #159221. PDF
Printable autumn leaf shaped maze, 580 squares and 100 dead ends, puzzle 159222 Maze 19: Autumn leaf, hard A maze in the shape of a autumn leaf, hard level: 580 squares inside the outline and a correct route 137 steps long. Puzzle #159222. PDF
Printable autumn leaf shaped maze, 580 squares and 98 dead ends, puzzle 159223 Maze 20: Autumn leaf, hard The autumn leaf silhouette IS the maze: 580 squares, 98 dead ends and exactly one route of 140 steps. Puzzle #159223. PDF

Acorn mazes

Ten boards of cap and nut. The cap overhangs the nut on both sides, building two sheltered corners of maze, and the tip at the bottom is a pocket with room for exactly one wrong idea.

Printable acorn shaped maze, 232 squares and 49 dead ends, puzzle 159301 Maze 21: Acorn, easy The acorn silhouette IS the maze: 232 squares, 49 dead ends and exactly one route of 50 steps. Puzzle #159301. PDF
Printable acorn shaped maze, 232 squares and 47 dead ends, puzzle 159302 Maze 22: Acorn, easy Work through the acorn from one opening to the other: 76 steps past 43 junctions and 47 dead ends. Puzzle #159302. PDF
Printable acorn shaped maze, 232 squares and 49 dead ends, puzzle 159303 Maze 23: Acorn, easy A easy level acorn shape. Of the 232 squares in the picture, only 77 sit on the good route. Puzzle #159303. PDF
Printable acorn shaped maze, 232 squares and 50 dead ends, puzzle 159304 Maze 24: Acorn, easy A acorn turned into a 232 square maze. Both openings sit on the outline itself and 50 turnings lead nowhere. Puzzle #159304. PDF
Printable acorn shaped maze, 408 squares and 74 dead ends, puzzle 159311 Maze 25: Acorn, medium A acorn silhouette on a 27 by 31 grid: 74 dead ends surround a route of 171 steps. Puzzle #159311. PDF
Printable acorn shaped maze, 408 squares and 69 dead ends, puzzle 159312 Maze 26: Acorn, medium A maze in the shape of a acorn, medium level: 408 squares inside the outline and a correct route 129 steps long. Puzzle #159312. PDF
Printable acorn shaped maze, 408 squares and 79 dead ends, puzzle 159313 Maze 27: Acorn, medium The acorn silhouette IS the maze: 408 squares, 79 dead ends and exactly one route of 108 steps. Puzzle #159313. PDF
Printable acorn shaped maze, 664 squares and 114 dead ends, puzzle 159321 Maze 28: Acorn, hard A hard level acorn shape. Of the 664 squares in the picture, only 152 sit on the good route. Puzzle #159321. PDF
Printable acorn shaped maze, 664 squares and 115 dead ends, puzzle 159322 Maze 29: Acorn, hard A acorn turned into a 664 square maze. Both openings sit on the outline itself and 115 turnings lead nowhere. Puzzle #159322. PDF
Printable acorn shaped maze, 664 squares and 107 dead ends, puzzle 159323 Maze 30: Acorn, hard A acorn silhouette on a 34 by 39 grid: 107 dead ends surround a route of 212 steps. Puzzle #159323. PDF

Three shapes for the long afternoon

Every maze on this page is carved inside a Thanksgiving silhouette: a turkey with its fan of tail feathers and its head off to one side, a pointed autumn leaf with a stem, and an acorn under its overhanging cap. The silhouette is the board itself: the openings sit on the outline and the solution runs through the picture. Each shape comes in easy, medium and hard, which are grid sizes printed on every card along with that board's measured route length and dead end count.

How the shapes play

The turkey is the big personality: the scalloped fan makes bays of corridors along the top, and the head on its neck is a spur most routes visit for nothing. The leaf funnels twice, once at each pointed end, and finishes down a one-lane stem. The acorn hides two sheltered corners under the rim of its cap, and the tip at the bottom has room for exactly one wrong idea. Ten boards of each means nobody at the table has to share.

While the food cooks

This page is built for the stretch of the day when the kitchen is busy and the table is not. Print easy leaves for the small cousins, medium turkeys for the middle of the table and hard acorns for whoever finishes first and says so. The solution is the last page of each file, so whoever is refereeing prints that page for themselves alone, and the catalogue number under each board brings the same maze back next November.

Related pages

The same shaped engine drives the Christmas and Halloween maze pages and the year-round animal mazes. Plain rectangular mazes at every size live on the main mazes page, and the maze puzzles ladder is the right print when the group wants a competition instead of a theme. True A4 pages, 15mm margins, print at actual size, one proved route per maze, as everywhere on this site.

How to use these sheets

  1. Pick a sheet and press Print. The file is a PDF sized for A4 and Letter paper.
  2. Print it in black and white at normal quality. None of these sheets need colour ink except the colour by number pages.
  3. Keep the answer page for yourself, or print it too if you want to check the work later.

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