LinkedIn Zip #597 Answer (November 4, 2026)

7×7 grid · 10 numbers · 19 walls · Nov 4, 2026

Difficulty: Easy — the 2nd easiest of the 18 Zip puzzles from #580 to #597. Our solver needed 56 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 4, 2026.

Hints Full answer How to play

Zip #597, redrawn. Draw one line through every cell, passing 1, 2, 3 … in order. Thick lines are walls.

Hints for Zip #597

CheckCheck the path you have so far

Draw the line you have in the game, then press Check. We tell you how much of it is right and where it first goes wrong, without showing the rest. Still stuck? “Next move only” adds one correct step.

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Hint 1Forced moves

Some cells have only two ways in or out, so the path has to use both. These 34 links are certain before you draw anything:

Hint 2The first stretch

Start on 1. From 1 to 2: down 6; from 2 to 3: right 3.

Hint 3Halfway

Here is the path from 1 up to 6, about half of the board. The rest has to sweep the cells that are still empty.

Zip #597 answer

Show the full solution

The complete path, number by number:

1 → 2: down 6
2 → 3: right 3
3 → 4: up 1, left 2, up 1
4 → 5: right 3
5 → 6: down 2, right 1, up 3, left 4, up 3, right 1, down 2
6 → 7: right 1, up 2
7 → 8: right 1, down 2, right 1
8 → 9: up 2, right 1
9 → 10: down 6

✓ Checked Nov 4, 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 #597, 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 9 stretches (this gives the answer away)

From 1 to 2: down 6. Every move here is forced. At row 1, column 1, for example, going right fails: it would leave row 2, column 1 with only one way in, a dead end.
From 2 to 3: right 3. The real choice is at row 7, column 2: going up 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. 1 more choice like that follows in this stretch.
From 3 to 4: up, left 2, up. The real choice is at row 7, 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 4 to 5: right 3. There is only one way through: every other move is blocked by a wall, the edge or the line itself.
From 5 to 6: down 2, right, up 3, left 4, up 3, right, down 2. Every move here is forced. At row 3, column 2, for example, going right fails: it would leave row 2, column 2 with only one way in, a dead end.
From 6 to 7: right, up 2. The real choice is at row 3, 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.
From 7 to 8: right, down 2, right. Every move here is forced. At row 1, column 5, for example, going right fails: it would leave row 2, column 5 with only one way in, a dead end.
From 8 to 9: up 2, right. There is only one way through: every other move is blocked by a wall, the edge or the line itself.
From 9 to 10: down 6. There is only one way through: every other move is blocked by a wall, the edge or the line itself.

Inside Zip #597

What our solver found when it checked this puzzle.

2 of the 19 walls are essential. They are the wall between columns 1 and 2 in row 2 and the wall between columns 2 and 3 in row 2: take either away and the board has more than one solution. Any one of the other 17 could go on its own without changing the answer, though not all of them at once.
Spare numbers. You could remove the 2, 5, 8 or 9 (any one of them) and the path would still be the only one. The 3, 4, 6 and 7 are essential.
Longest stretch. 5 → 6 takes 16 moves.

The essential walls are highlighted. Any one faded wall could go on its own.