Business Insider Knighthop Hints and Answers — October 10, 2026
Our Knighthop solver reveals today's knight's tour path one move at a time, so you can get a hint without seeing the whole solution.
Tap any white square to reveal its move number. Use the buttons above to step through or reveal everything at once.
- Revealed cells display the order in which they are visited.
- Every active (white) square must be visited exactly once.
- Only legal chess knight moves are allowed (L-shape).
How the Knighthop Solver Works
Our Knighthop solver shows you today's complete solution and lets you reveal it one move at a time. The numbered squares show the order the knight visits each active square, so you can follow along or skip ahead to any point in the tour.
The solution is computed using Warnsdorff's rule — a classic heuristic that almost always finds a complete knight's tour instantly by always moving to the square with the fewest onward options.
What Is Business Insider Knighthop?
Knighthop is a daily chess-knight puzzle published by Business Insider. Your goal is to move a knight across a partial grid, visiting every active square exactly once using only legal chess knight moves.
The game is a modern daily take on the classic Knight's Tour mathematical puzzle. The partial board — with inactive (black) squares scattered throughout — makes each day's layout unique.
Business Insider also offers Boxed, Pipeline, and Tally as part of their daily puzzle collection.
Tips for Solving Knighthop
Use Warnsdorff's rule: always move to the square with the fewest available onward knight moves. This prevents painting yourself into a corner. Look one or two moves ahead — if a potential destination has only one exit, visit it early before it becomes unreachable.
Squares near the corners or edges of the active area are the hardest to reach. Plan to visit them early in your tour, as they'll have fewer onward moves as the board fills up.
Frequently Asked Questions
Knighthop is a daily chess-knight puzzle from Business Insider. Starting from a fixed square, you must move a knight to every active square on the board exactly once — a variant of the classic "Knight's Tour" problem.
Your knight starts on a highlighted square. Make only legal chess knight moves (two squares in one direction, one square perpendicular). Visit every active white square exactly once. Black squares are inactive and cannot be entered.
Our solver lets you tap any square to reveal its move number. You can also use "Reveal Next" to step through the solution in order, or "Reveal All" to see the complete path at once.
Business Insider's Knighthop puzzle resets daily at midnight Eastern Time. All players worldwide get the same puzzle each day.
Use Warnsdorff's rule: always move to the square with the fewest onward knight moves. This greedy heuristic finds a complete tour in most cases. Also prioritize squares near corners or the edges of the active area — they're hardest to reach later.
The Knight's Tour is a classical chess puzzle where a knight must visit every square on a board exactly once. Knighthop is a modern daily variant with a partial board (inactive squares removed) that makes each puzzle unique.
