LinkedIn Zip #594 Answer (November 1, 2026)
Difficulty: Hard — the 4th hardest of the 15 Zip puzzles from #580 to #594. Our solver needed 1,645 tries to find the path and prove it is the only one. Zip by day of the week →
Hints and the full solution for the LinkedIn Zip puzzle of November 1, 2026.
Hints for Zip #594
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Hint 1Forced moves
Some cells have only two ways in or out, so the path has to use both. These 13 links are certain before you draw anything:
Hint 2The first stretch
Start on 1. From 1 to 2: down 3; from 2 to 3: right 1, up 3, right 2.
Hint 3Halfway
Here is the path from 1 up to 8, about half of the board. The rest has to sweep the cells that are still empty.
Zip #594 answer
Show the full solution
The complete path, number by number:
- 1 → 2: down 3
- 2 → 3: right 1, up 3, right 2
- 3 → 4: right 1, up 3, left 5, down 1, right 1
- 4 → 5: right 1
- 5 → 6: right 2, down 1
- 6 → 7: left 4, down 1
- 7 → 8: down 4, right 1
- 8 → 9: right 2, up 2
- 9 → 10: right 1, down 2, right 3, up 3
- 10 → 11: up 4, left 1
- 11 → 12: down 1
- 12 → 13: down 3
- 13 → 14: down 2
- 14 → 15: left 1
- 15 → 16: up 2, left 2
✓ Checked Nov 1, 12:01 AM Pacific: our solver worked out this path on its own and confirmed it is the only one. How we check
How to solve Zip #594, step by step
Our solver walks the answer from 1 and, at every turn, checks why the other ways fail. The darker line is the stretch each step adds; dashed circles mark where there was a real choice.
Show all 15 stretches (this gives the answer away)
From 1 to 2: down 3. The real choice is at row 4, column 2: going up or right looks open, but every way on from there gets stuck before the board is full (a dead end, a cut-off area or a number out of order), so the line goes down. 2 more choices like that follow in this stretch.
From 2 to 3: right, up 3, right 2. The real choice is at row 7, column 2: going left looks open, but every way on from there gets stuck before the board is full (a dead end, a cut-off area or a number out of order), so the line goes right. 3 more choices like that follow in this stretch.
From 3 to 4: right, up 3, left 5, down, right. The real choice is at row 4, column 5: going down looks open, but every way on from there gets stuck before the board is full (a dead end, a cut-off area or a number out of order), so the line goes right. 6 more choices like that follow in this stretch.
From 4 to 5: right. The real choice is at row 2, column 2: going down looks open, but every way on from there gets stuck before the board is full (a dead end, a cut-off area or a number out of order), so the line goes right.
From 5 to 6: right 2, down. The real choice is at row 2, column 3: going down looks open, but every way on from there gets stuck before the board is full (a dead end, a cut-off area or a number out of order), so the line goes right.
From 6 to 7: left 4, down. There is only one way through: every other move is blocked by a wall, the edge or the line itself.
From 7 to 8: down 4, right. There is only one way through: every other move is blocked by a wall, the edge or the line itself.
From 8 to 9: right 2, up 2. The real choice is at row 8, column 4: going right looks open, but every way on from there gets stuck before the board is full (a dead end, a cut-off area or a number out of order), so the line goes up. 1 more choice like that follows in this stretch.
From 9 to 10: right, down 2, right 3, up 3. The real choice is at row 6, column 5: going up or right looks open, but every way on from there gets stuck before the board is full (a dead end, a cut-off area or a number out of order), so the line goes down. 1 more choice like that follows in this stretch.
From 10 to 11: up 4, left. The real choice is at row 4, column 8: going left looks open, but every way on from there gets stuck before the board is full (a dead end, a cut-off area or a number out of order), so the line goes up. 1 more choice like that follows in this stretch.
From 11 to 12: down. There is only one way through: every other move is blocked by a wall, the edge or the line itself.
From 12 to 13: down 3. There is only one way through: every other move is blocked by a wall, the edge or the line itself.
From 13 to 14: down 2. The real choice is at row 5, column 7: going left looks open, but every way on from there gets stuck before the board is full (a dead end, a cut-off area or a number out of order), so the line goes down.
From 14 to 15: left. There is only one way through: every other move is blocked by a wall, the edge or the line itself.
From 15 to 16: up 2, left 2. There is only one way through: every other move is blocked by a wall, the edge or the line itself.
Inside Zip #594
What our solver found when it checked this puzzle.
- No walls. The numbers and the edges of the board are enough to fix the path.
- Spare numbers. You could remove the 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 or 15 (any one of them) and the path would still be the only one. The 2, 3, 4, 6 and 9 are essential.
- Longest stretch. 3 → 4 takes 11 moves.
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