Zip #32 Solution (October 27, 2026): Route, Decision Points and Answer

Zip #32 was the 6×6 medium board of Tuesday, October 27, 2026: 8 numbered dots, 2 walls, and one path that visits all 36 cells in order. Our solver, a line-for-line port of the app's, needed 303 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 50% of its cells, and its longest straight run is 6 cells. The longest leg, between two consecutive dots, is 13 cells.

Zip #32 in numbers

Board	6×6, Medium
Numbered dots	8
Walls	2
Cells on the path	36
Solver search nodes	303 (5/5)
Moves with a single legal continuation	60%
Decision points	14
Turns along the path	50%

Zip #32 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.

Leg	Cells	Directions
1 → 2	5	down 4, right 1
2 → 3	4	up 4
3 → 4	5	up 1, left 4
4 → 5	3	left 1, down 1, right 1
5 → 6	13	right 2, down 2, left 1, down 1, right 1, down 1, left 3, up 1, right 1
6 → 7	2	up 1, left 1
7 → 8	3	up 1, right 2

Where the choices are: step 1 at row 2, column 5 (3 ways), step 2 at row 3, column 5 (3 ways), step 3 at row 4, column 5 (3 ways), step 4 at row 5, column 5 (2 ways), step 5 at row 6, column 5 (2 ways) and step 13 at row 1, column 4 (2 ways) and 8 more. Everywhere else only one move keeps the board solvable.

Zip #32 solution

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

164141312111751920133435821297322322383062425472928272652

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Zip #32 (October 27, 2026): solution and route

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