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Free Printable Mazes — Educational Games

Here are a few free mazes from the Amazeing Art maze book. They make great educational games for kids and are good games for road trips too. The stories behind these monuments are as fascinating as the maze art, so just follow the links to the essays. Buy the maze book today and get dozens more of these educational games for less than the cost of lunch!

Maze Puzzle of Assyrian Statue

Assyrian Winged Bull (Lamassu) Maze Puzzle

The Assyrians loved to carve statues of winged bulls for their opulent royal palaces. Well, actually, it was their slaves who did all the carving, since Assyrian Kings often hid in fear on obscure plots of farmland. This maze appeared in Games magazine and was featured on Fox TV. Its also available as a maze poster.

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Maze Puzzle of Akhenaten, Egyptian Pharaoh

Maze of Akhenaten, Heretical Egyptian Pharaoh

Akhenaten was an heretical Egyptian pharaoh who tried to induce the Egyptians to worship the sun-God Aten above all else. Unfortunately, he came to a bad end. Maybe you can do better finding the end in this puzzle! Also available as part of our ancient world maze postcard pack.

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Roman Colosseum maze puzzle

Maze of the Colossuem in Rome

Capable of seating over 70,000 spectators, the Romans considered this a wonder of the world. Well-meaning Roman citizens sometimes developed a fascination for the Colosseum. Today, only stray cats duel in its ruins. You can also get this as a maze poster.

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Maze of the Statue of Zeus at Olympia

Maze of the Statue of Zeus at Olympia

This 40-foot tall gold and ivory statue of the god Zeus presided over the early Olympic Games. It was the most celebrated artistic work in ancient Greece, and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. This maze is pretty nifty, too, and it also got into Games magazine.

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Mazes — Educational Games for Road Trips

Road trips, we all take road trips. When I was a kid I used to bring my mazes with me on our (very long) family road trips. We didn't have tiny TV's built into the back seats of SUVs and mini-vans back then, but I think road trips were better that way. Mazes develop hand-eye coordination and puzzle solving skills — just what I needed in the 6th grade. And I'm sure my parents appreciated how quiet I was!

Road trips can get pretty tedious, and a good educational game beats TV any time. So if you are looking for an educational game for a road trip (or several road trips) download a few of these mazes and try them out. And don't forget to download some of the essays as well, so you can talk about the history of these ancient wonders. The stories behind the monuments are interesting and educational, and are half the fun.

Mazes, Labyrinths, and Planned Chaos

What are mazes? Are they simply an intricate network of passages? In the ancient world mazes meant more than this: The maze (or labyrinth) was a place of "planned chaos," where order and disorder existed simultaneously. To those unlucky enough to be lost in the maze, all is confusion. To those who can see its pattern from afar, however, the maze revealed its artistry and design.

The same juxtaposition of order and disorder, of artistry and chaos, that is apparent in mazes is also manifest in ancient ruins. Monuments such as the Great Sphinx, the Colossus of Rhodes, or the Egyptian Labyrinth were once pre-eminent symbols of human achievement, masterpieces of technological skill and the control of vast manpower and resources. Yet now they are also vivid reminders of the inevitable triumph of time over the works of man, of the irresistible decay that gnaws away at all great things...

Mazes on this page come from the Amazeing Art book, which contains over 30 maze puzzles of ancient wonders along with the fascinating tales that lie behind them. Buy the Maze Book today!