Help the Elephant Find the Water Hole — Level 3

The biggest animal in the catalogue with one of the longest walks in it — 83 squares to reach water. Seventeen dead ends is a lot to back out of on a route that length, so this is a sheet for a child who has stopped minding being wrong.

Twelve cells across brings the corridors down to about one and a third centimeters. At that width the pencil work is genuinely part of the difficulty, so these sheets suit a child who has already stopped needing to rest their whole hand on the page to draw a straight line.

The way through runs 83 squares and turns 54 times, with 17 dead ends branching off it. The grid is carved so that exactly one route connects the start to the finish: no loops, no second way round, and no corner walled off from the rest. Every square can be reached, and a child who follows the route carefully will always get there.