Zip Puzzle (Penghua Chen)
Rate itDraw one path through every cell, touching the numbers in order, with a new grid each day.
Every day: A new daily grid each day on the Today screen, hand-made rather than generated, gentle on Monday and harder through the week to Sunday, with your time and streak tracked. New puzzle: Once a day; the game does not say at what hour.
Zip Puzzle is a path puzzle app for iPhone: start at 1, pass through each number in order and fill every cell of the grid with a single line. A new daily puzzle comes out each day, easy on Monday and harder by Sunday, alongside hundreds of hand-made grids in six sizes. It is free with ads, with an optional Premium upgrade.
About Zip Puzzle (Penghua Chen)
Zip Puzzle is an iPhone and iPad app by Penghua Chen, released in February 2026. It is a version of the path puzzle that LinkedIn made popular as Zip: a grid with a few numbered cells, some walls between cells, and one rule, that a single line must start at 1, visit every number in order, end at the last one and pass through every cell exactly once.
The Today screen gives a new daily grid, and the week has a shape: Monday's puzzle is gentle and the difficulty climbs until Sunday. The app times each solve and keeps a streak of days in a row. Beyond the daily there are hundreds of puzzles in levels from a 4x4 Mini to a 9x9 Master, each made by hand rather than generated at random, and they are all stored on the phone, so it plays offline.
A first-puzzle tutorial teaches the rules, a hint button helps when you are stuck, and themes change the colours of the path. Statistics show solved puzzles by level, an activity calendar and your streaks, and there are achievements, some hidden. Premium removes ads and adds unlimited hints, more charts and new puzzles with each update.
It suits players who enjoy LinkedIn's Zip and want a daily grid on their phone, with plenty more to play when the day's one is done.
How to play Zip Puzzle (Penghua Chen)
- Open the Today screen and tap the day's puzzle.
- Start your line on the cell numbered 1.
- Draw through the grid, passing the numbered cells in order and going around the walls.
- Fill every cell exactly once and finish on the highest number.
- Use a hint if you are stuck, and come back tomorrow to keep your streak.
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Tips
- Look at corners and cells walled in on three sides first: there is only one way in and out.
- The path must reach every number in order, so cells far from the route between two numbers have to be picked up in a detour.
- Avoid cutting off a region of the grid: any area the line cannot get back into ruins the solve.
- Expect Sunday's grid to take longer than Monday's.
Questions
Does Zip Puzzle have a daily puzzle?
Yes. A new daily grid comes out each day, starting gentle on Monday and getting harder through the week.
What are the rules?
Start at 1, end at the last number, pass the numbers in order and visit every cell exactly once.
Is Zip Puzzle free?
Yes, with ads. Premium removes the ads and adds unlimited hints, more charts and new puzzles with updates.
Is it the LinkedIn game?
No. It is a separate app by Penghua Chen built on the same kind of path puzzle.
Can I play offline?
Yes. The puzzles are stored on the phone.
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