Zip #43 Solution (November 7, 2026): Route, Decision Points and Answer

Zip #43 was the 8×8 hard board of Saturday, November 7, 2026: 10 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 3,819 search nodes to prove the path unique, which puts the board at 5 of 5 on the difficulty scale. Along the answer, 57% of the moves had only one legal continuation; the other 27 steps offered a real choice, and those are where you have to look ahead. The path turns at 56% of its cells, and its longest straight run is 8 cells. The longest leg, between two consecutive dots, is 20 cells.

Zip #43 in numbers

Board	8×8, Hard
Numbered dots	10
Walls	6
Cells on the path	64
Solver search nodes	3,819 (5/5)
Moves with a single legal continuation	57%
Decision points	27
Turns along the path	56%

Zip #43 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	9	left 2, down 1, right 1, down 1, left 1, down 3
2 → 3	11	right 1, up 2, right 2, up 1, left 1, up 1, right 1, up 1, right 1
3 → 4	3	down 2, right 1
4 → 5	11	right 1, up 1, left 1, up 1, right 1, up 1, left 5
5 → 6	1	left 1
6 → 7	20	up 1, right 7, down 5, left 1, down 1, right 1, down 1, left 3
7 → 8	3	left 2, up 1
8 → 9	4	right 2, up 1, right 1
9 → 10	1	down 1

Where the choices are: step 1 at row 3, column 3 (3 ways), step 2 at row 3, column 2 (2 ways), step 4 at row 4, column 1 (2 ways), step 6 at row 5, column 2 (3 ways), step 8 at row 6, column 1 (2 ways) and step 9 at row 7, column 1 (2 ways) and 21 more. Everywhere else only one move keeps the board solvable.

Zip #43 solution

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

373839404142434465343332313045321203282946451819222726477617162342548813141562950499128606110515221158577555453

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

Zip #43 (November 7, 2026): solution and route

Zip #43 in numbers

More free daily puzzles