Puzzlune

Archive · Zip #25

Zip #25 (October 20, 2026): solution and route

The 6×6 Medium puzzle from Tuesday, October 20, 2026. Play it first; the route and the solved path are folded below. Replays don't affect your streak.

— 0:00TIMER

Loading the puzzle…

← #24#26 →

Zip #25 was the 6×6 medium board of Tuesday, October 20, 2026: 6 numbered dots, 4 walls, and one path that visits all 36 cells in order. Our solver, a line-for-line port of the app's, needed 373 search nodes to prove the path unique, which puts the board at 5 of 5 on the difficulty scale. Along the answer, 60% of the moves had only one legal continuation; the other 14 steps offered a real choice, and those are where you have to look ahead. The path turns at 65% of its cells, and its longest straight run is 6 cells. The longest leg, between two consecutive dots, is 14 cells.

Zip #25 in numbers

Board6×6, Medium
Numbered dots6
Walls4
Cells on the path36
Solver search nodes373 (5/5)
Moves with a single legal continuation60%
Decision points14
Turns along the path65%
Zip #25 route, dot by dot

How many cells each leg takes and which way it runs, reading from dot 1. “Right 3” means three steps to the right.

LegCellsDirections
1 → 211up 2, right 2, up 1, left 1, up 1, right 2, down 2
2 → 35down 3, left 1, up 1
3 → 41up 1
4 → 54left 1, down 2, left 1
5 → 614left 2, up 1, right 1, up 1, left 1, up 1, right 1, up 1, left 1, up 1, right 2, down 1

Where the choices are: step 1 at row 5, column 3 (2 ways), step 2 at row 4, column 3 (3 ways), step 3 at row 3, column 3 (2 ways), step 4 at row 3, column 4 (2 ways), step 6 at row 2, column 5 (2 ways) and step 8 at row 1, column 4 (2 ways) and 8 more. Everywhere else only one move keeps the board solvable.

Zip #25 solution

The number in each cell is its position on the path; the dots keep their own numbers and are highlighted.

Back to the Zip archive, today's puzzle, or how to play Zip.

More free daily puzzles

Every game on Puzzlune has a daily, unlimited mode and a full archive. See all games.