Games like Zip: daily one-line path puzzles

LinkedIn's Zip gives everyone the same small grid each day: draw one line that visits the numbers in order and fills every cell. These daily puzzles share that idea of a single route or a set of paths that must cover the whole board.

The games

Zag, from Puzzleship, is the closest match: one continuous path through every cell, passing numbered checkpoints in order, with six grids a day from very easy to ultra hard. Tiny Maze drops the numbers and adds walls, so you find the one route from door to door that visits every cell. Bean Connect is a single timed path through every bean from a starting point, a good quick swap for Zip.

If you like the filling more than the order, the coloured-dot games are next. Flowku joins pairs of dots with paths that must cover every cell, and Flow Free has a daily pack of boards in the app; La Nación's and O Globo's Circuitos post three levels of the same puzzle each day in the browser.

For a step up, the classic loop puzzles ask for one closed route drawn from clues: Daily Masyu with its black and white pearls, and Daily Slitherlink with numbers that count the loop's edges. Lawndle turns the idea into a little game, mowing every tile of a lawn in as few steps as you can.

Questions

What is the closest game to Zip?

Zag on Puzzleship: one path through every cell that passes numbered checkpoints in order, at six levels a day.

Is there a Zip-style puzzle without numbers?

Tiny Maze asks for one route through every cell of a small walled maze, and Bean Connect for one path through every bean.

Are these free?

Yes. All of them can be played free; the Puzzleship games and the Daily puzzle sites show ads, and Flow Free is an app with ads.

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