Games Like LinkedIn Zip: What to Play Next

The other LinkedIn Games

The easiest place to start is the same hub Zip lives in. Alongside Zip, LinkedIn publishes a set of daily logic and word puzzles, one fresh board each per day, all free to play. They scratch a similar itch without leaving LinkedIn:

• Queens. Place one queen in every row, column and colored region so that no two queens touch, not even diagonally.
• Tango. Fill the grid with suns and moons so each row and column holds an equal number of each, with no more than two identical symbols in a row.
• Pinpoint. Guess the category that links a list of clues revealed one at a time; the fewer clues you need, the better your score.
• Crossclimb. Solve short trivia clues, then reorder the answers so each word changes by a single letter to form a ladder.
• Mini Sudoku. A compact 6×6 Sudoku: every row, column and box holds the numbers 1 to 6 exactly once.
• Patches. Fill each outlined region with one shape, a square or a rectangle, sized to match the number shown inside it.

Games with the same one-line-path idea

What makes Zip Zip is the mechanic: a single continuous line that visits numbered checkpoints in order and fills every cell on the grid. That is a Hamiltonian path, and a handful of classic pencil puzzles are built on the same one-line, connect-the-numbers principle:

• Numberlink and Flow Free. Nikoli's grid puzzle (published in Japan as Nanbarinku) where you connect pairs of matching numbers with separate paths that never cross and, on a well-made board, cover every cell. Its hit mobile version is Flow Free. The board-filling path work feels a lot like Zip, though you draw several paths between pairs rather than one route in order.
• Hidato and Numbrix. You fill a grid with consecutive numbers, 1, 2, 3 and on, so they form a single unbroken chain through every cell. Hidato allows diagonal steps; Numbrix stays horizontal and vertical. This is the closest logic cousin to Zip, because you are building one ordered path across the whole grid, just writing the numbers instead of tracing a line.
• One-line drawing puzzles. Games like 1LINE and One Line Draw ask you to cover a whole shape in a single unbroken stroke without lifting your finger or retracing. They rest on Eulerian paths rather than Zip's Hamiltonian path, but the one-continuous-line challenge is the same.
• Masyu. Another Nikoli classic: draw one continuous loop that passes through every white and black circle while following simple turn rules. It is a single line with no crossings or branches, like Zip, but it closes into a loop instead of running from a start to a finish.

The closest match to Zip

Here is the honest answer: no famous game copies Zip exactly. The mechanic is a Hamiltonian path, one line that visits every cell once while hitting the numbered checkpoints in order, and most path puzzles change one rule. Numberlink and Flow Free keep the fill-the-grid feel but split the route into matched pairs. Hidato and Numbrix keep the single ordered chain but have you write numbers instead of drawing a line. If you want the nearest all-round match, it is Hidato: one continuous, numbered run through the entire board.

Then come back for tomorrow's Zip

Every game above is worth a detour, but LinkedIn only gives you one Zip a day, so when tomorrow's board drops, come straight back. This site posts a full answer and a step-by-step path video for every daily Zip within minutes of the release. See today's LinkedIn Zip answer for the current puzzle, replay any past board in the archive of solved Zip puzzles, drop a tricky grid into the interactive Zip solver, or sharpen your technique with the guide on how to solve LinkedIn Zip.