LinkedIn Zip #598 Answer (November 5, 2026)

7×7 grid · 10 numbers · 16 walls · Nov 5, 2026

Difficulty: Easy — the 4th easiest of the 19 Zip puzzles from #580 to #598. Our solver needed 87 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 5, 2026.

Hints Full answer How to play

Zip #598, redrawn. Draw one line through every cell, passing 1, 2, 3 … in order. Thick lines are walls.

Hints for Zip #598

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 22 links are certain before you draw anything:

Hint 2The first stretch

Start on 1. From 1 to 2: right 6, down 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 #598 answer

Show the full solution

The complete path, number by number:

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

✓ Checked Nov 5, 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 #598, 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: right 6, down 3. The real choice is at row 1, column 1: 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. 1 more choice like that follows in this stretch.
From 2 to 3: down 2, left, up. The real choice is at row 6, column 6: going down or 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.
From 3 to 4: up 2. The real choice is at row 5, column 6: 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 4 to 5: up, left, down 4, left. Every move here is forced. At row 3, column 6, for example, going left fails: it would leave row 2, column 6 with only one way in, a dead end.
From 5 to 6: up 4. Every move here is forced. At row 6, column 4, for example, going left fails: it would leave row 5, column 4 with only one way in, a dead end.
From 6 to 7: left 3, down 2. 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 left.
From 7 to 8: down, right. The real choice is at row 5, column 1: 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 8 to 9: up 2. The real choice is at row 5, column 2: going down 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 up.
From 9 to 10: right, down 3, left 2, down, right 6. Every move here is forced. At row 6, column 2, for example, going down fails: it would leave row 6, column 1 with only one way in, a dead end.

Inside Zip #598

What our solver found when it checked this puzzle.

Only 3 of the 16 walls decide the answer. They are the wall between rows 1 and 2 in column 5, the wall right of the 3 and the wall between rows 6 and 7 in column 3: take any of them away and the board has more than one solution. The other 13 could all go and the path would stay the only one.
Spare numbers. You could remove the 3, 5, 6 or 8 (any one of them) and the path would still be the only one. The 2, 4, 7 and 9 are essential.
Longest stretch. 9 → 10 takes 13 moves.

The walls that decide the answer are highlighted; the faded ones could all go.