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How to solve today’s Zip — October 27, 2026
duplixo publishes its own free daily Zip — same rules, unlimited practice — alongside the solving method below. This is not the official LinkedIn puzzle, and duplixo is not affiliated with LinkedIn. For the exact daily board, play on LinkedIn; to learn the method or get unlimited practice, you are in the right place.
How to solve today’s Zip
duplixo’s free daily Zip for October 27, 2026 is a 6×6 grid with 9 numbered stations. One continuous line must fill all 36 cells while touching 1 to 9 in order, starting on the 1 at row 5, column 3. Five graduated hints sit below; the worked solution is revealed further down whenever you are ready.
Need a nudge? Five graduated hints
Hint 1 The start Reveal
Number 1 is at row 5, column 3 — that is where the line begins.
Hint 2 The first move Reveal
From the 1, the line leaves by heading right.
Hint 3 The finish Reveal
Number 9 (the end of the line) is at row 5, column 2. Working back from the finish often unlocks the middle.
Hint 4 A waypoint Reveal
Number 2 is at row 2, column 4 — the line reaches it early, so pin the run between 1 and 2 first.
Hint 5 The opening run Reveal
Reading (row, column), the first four cells of the path are (5,3) → (5,4) → (4,4) → (3,4). The rest fills from there.
A worked solution: our daily Zip, solved
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Today’s Zip route — one unbroken line through all 36 cells, touching the numbers in order. The stops fall at 1 (row 5, column 3) · 2 (row 2, column 4) · 3 (row 2, column 5) · 4 (row 4, column 5) · 5 (row 6, column 4) · 6 (row 5, column 1) · 7 (row 2, column 2) · 8 (row 2, column 3) · 9 (row 5, column 2).
How Zip works
Zip is a path puzzle on a 6×6 board. A handful of cells carry numbers. Your job is to draw a single continuous line that moves only between touching cells (up, down, left or right, never diagonally) and threads through every one of the 36 cells exactly once.
The catch is order. The line must begin on 1 and reach the numbers in sequence — 1, then 2, then 3, and so on — with the highest number marking the end of the route. A well-formed Zip board has exactly one path that fills the grid and honours that order, so every turn can be reasoned out rather than guessed. Dead-end cells and the board corners are usually where the logic starts.
How this page is built
The Zip board on this page is generated by duplixo and run through our solver to confirm it is valid before it is published. duplixo is not affiliated with LinkedIn.
Reading today’s Zip
Zip answer FAQ
Can a Zip puzzle have more than one solution?
No. Every daily Zip grid is built so that exactly one continuous path satisfies the clues. Our generator runs the board through a backtracking Hamiltonian-path solver before publishing to confirm the route is unique, so the path above is the only answer.
Does the Zip path have to fill every cell?
Yes. A valid Zip path passes through all 36 cells of the 6×6 grid exactly once — it never skips a cell, crosses itself or reuses a cell — while reaching the numbered cells in ascending order.
Do the numbers have to be visited in order?
Always. The line must begin on 1 and reach 2, then 3, and so on up to the highest number before the grid is complete. Hitting a higher number before a lower one breaks the path, even if every other cell would be filled.
Is this the official LinkedIn Zip board?
No. duplixo publishes its own free Zip board every day, with the same rules and unlimited practice, plus this how-to-solve guide and a worked solution. It is independent of LinkedIn and not affiliated with it. For the exact official daily puzzle, play on LinkedIn; to learn the method or practise without limits, you are in the right place.
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Learned the method? Now beat the clock.
The route today turns on the corners. A corner cell has only two ways in or out, so the line is forced through it — and once the four corners are committed, the interior has far less freedom than it first appears.
The clean method is to lock the numbered stations in order, then join each pair with the only run that keeps every remaining cell reachable. From the 1 at row 5, column 3, follow the forced steps and the grid fills itself.