Introducing Zip
Today LinkedIn is launching a new daily game, Zip, which is their third logic game alongside Queens and Tango where we’ve helped design/edit the puzzles. Zip is a path-drawing game with simple rules: draw a path through all cells starting at 1, going up in order, and ending at the highest number. Some puzzles have a fully open grid while others, like this puzzle, include walls to embed different logical and visual themes.
or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools)
Theme: Trail of Logic
Author/Opus: This is the 562nd puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. Sudoku.
Rules: Draw a path through all cells in the grid by moving horizontally or vertically between adjacent squares. The path cannot cross itself or cross over any given walls. The path must start at the cell with 1, proceed through the other numbers in ascending order, and end at the cell with the highest value.
See also this example:
Solution: PDF and selected animation.
Note: Follow this link for other Loop/Path puzzles.
Note 2: Comments on the blog are great! For a more interactive discussion, please also consider using our General Blog Puzzle Discussion post on the GMPuzzles Discord.
Unless I missed something, you cannot use any notation on linkedin, you can only draw the path from start to finish. That doesn’t seem ideal…
That is correct. For any of the harder puzzles we may post here, we will offer intermediate drawing and wall marking which become helpful when not just doing vibe-based solving.