Zip #41 Solution (November 5, 2026): Route, Decision Points and Answer

Zip #41 was the 7×7 medium board of Thursday, November 5, 2026: 10 numbered dots, 5 walls, and one path that visits all 49 cells in order. Our solver, a line-for-line port of the app's, needed 620 search nodes to prove the path unique, which puts the board at 5 of 5 on the difficulty scale. Along the answer, 56% of the moves had only one legal continuation; the other 21 steps offered a real choice, and those are where you have to look ahead. The path turns at 43% of its cells, and its longest straight run is 7 cells. The longest leg, between two consecutive dots, is 29 cells.

Zip #41 in numbers

Board	7×7, Medium
Numbered dots	10
Walls	5
Cells on the path	49
Solver search nodes	620 (5/5)
Moves with a single legal continuation	56%
Decision points	21
Turns along the path	43%

Zip #41 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	1	left 1
2 → 3	1	left 1
3 → 4	5	down 2, right 1, up 1, right 1
4 → 5	1	down 1
5 → 6	2	down 1, left 1
6 → 7	2	left 1, down 1
7 → 8	2	right 2
8 → 9	29	right 1, up 4, right 1, down 6, left 1, up 1, left 1, down 1, left 4, up 6, right 1, down 2
9 → 10	5	down 3, right 2

Where the choices are: step 1 at row 1, column 5 (2 ways), step 2 at row 1, column 4 (2 ways), step 4 at row 2, column 3 (2 ways), step 5 at row 3, column 3 (2 ways), step 10 at row 4, column 5 (2 ways) and step 11 at row 4, column 4 (2 ways) and 15 more. Everywhere else only one move keeps the board solvable.

Zip #41 solution

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

4142321202140434741922399565182338451261017243746714816253647481030292635343332312827

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Zip #41 (November 5, 2026): solution and route

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