Zip #37 Solution (November 1, 2026): Route, Decision Points and Answer

Zip #37 was the 8×8 hard board of Sunday, November 1, 2026: 14 numbered dots, 6 walls, and one path that visits all 64 cells in order. Our solver, a line-for-line port of the app's, needed 4,071 search nodes to prove the path unique, which puts the board at 5 of 5 on the difficulty scale. Along the answer, 52% of the moves had only one legal continuation; the other 30 steps offered a real choice, and those are where you have to look ahead. The path turns at 60% of its cells, and its longest straight run is 8 cells. The longest leg, between two consecutive dots, is 14 cells.

Zip #37 in numbers

Board	8×8, Hard
Numbered dots	14
Walls	6
Cells on the path	64
Solver search nodes	4,071 (5/5)
Moves with a single legal continuation	52%
Decision points	30
Turns along the path	60%

Zip #37 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	3	right 1, down 1, left 1
2 → 3	1	down 1
3 → 4	6	right 2, up 3, left 1
4 → 5	2	left 2
5 → 6	6	left 4, down 2
6 → 7	3	right 1, up 1, right 1
7 → 8	4	right 2, down 2
8 → 9	5	left 1, up 1, left 1, down 1, left 1
9 → 10	3	left 1, down 2
10 → 11	3	down 2, right 1
11 → 12	3	up 3
12 → 13	14	right 1, down 1, right 1, up 1, right 4, down 1, left 1, down 1, right 1, down 1, left 1
13 → 14	10	left 1, up 2, left 1, down 2, left 1, up 1, left 1, down 1

Where the choices are: step 1 at row 2, column 6 (3 ways), step 2 at row 2, column 7 (2 ways), step 3 at row 3, column 7 (3 ways), step 4 at row 3, column 6 (2 ways), step 5 at row 4, column 6 (2 ways) and step 6 at row 4, column 7 (2 ways) and 24 more. Everywhere else only one move keeps the board solvable.

Zip #37 solution

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

17161514512410182172324129620292825238329302783673312414445464748103942435857504935386362595651523611146160551353

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Zip #37 (November 1, 2026): solution and route

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