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Today LinkedIn is launching a new daily game, Zip<\/a>, 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.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"Zip<\/p>\n

PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

or solve online<\/a> (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools)<\/p>\n

Theme:<\/b> Trail of Logic<\/p>\n

Author\/Opus:<\/b> This is the 562nd puzzle from Thomas Snyder, aka Dr. Sudoku.<\/p>\n

Rules:<\/b> 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.<\/p>\n

See also this example:<\/p>\n

\"Zip<\/p>\n

Solution:<\/b> PDF<\/a> and selected animation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Note:<\/b> Follow this link for other Loop\/Path puzzles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Note 2:<\/b>\u00a0Comments on the blog are great! For a more interactive discussion, please also consider using our\u00a0General Blog Puzzle Discussion<\/a>\u00a0post\u00a0on the GMPuzzles Discord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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