Puzzles for younger solvers
Made for children, written for you — the parent, grandparent, teacher or aunt who is going to print them. This page is safe to leave open in front of a child: it asks for nothing, and there is nothing on it to click away into.
The sets
Maze
Kids' Mazes, Set 1
Big, chunky mazes with thick lines and short paths. Ages 5 to 9, roughly.
Checked: complete, correct and solvable
Letter PDF for Kids' Mazes, Set 1, 61 KB A4 version of Kids' Mazes, Set 1, 146 KB Answers for Kids' Mazes, Set 1, Letter PDF, 79 KB
PDF · Letter and A4 · 20 mazes · 43 KB · answer sheet is a separate file
Word Search
Kids' Word Search, Set 1
Large letters, short familiar words, and they run across and down only — never backwards, never diagonally, which is the difference between a six-year-old finishing and a six-year-old giving up.
Checked: complete, correct and solvable
Letter PDF for Kids' Word Search, Set 1, 117 KB A4 version of Kids' Word Search, Set 1, 469 KB Answers for Kids' Word Search, Set 1, Letter PDF, 81 KB
PDF · Letter and A4 · 20 puzzles · 117 KB · answer sheet is a separate file
For a classroom
Print as many copies as your class needs, every year, without asking me. If you’re running activities for a whole school or a day programme and you’d like that in writing, the printing rules page says so plainly. What you may do with these
A note for grown-ups
Every word list that goes into a children’s puzzle is screened before the puzzle is built, so nothing awkward turns up hidden in a grid. That check runs on the word list and on the filler letters around it.