Every ZIP code in the United States, with weather, radar, trivia and the numbers behind it. Five digits since 1963!

ZIP stands for Zone Improvement Plan. The codes went live on July 1, 1963.The lowest ZIP code is 00501 — the IRS in Holtsville, New York.The highest ZIP code is 99950, in Ketchikan, Alaska.Type 07734 into a calculator and turn it upside down: hELLO. It is Keansburg, New Jersey.12345 belongs to one company: General Electric in Schenectady, New York.The first digit is a region: 0 is New England and New Jersey, 9 is the West Coast, Alaska and Hawaii.Mr. ZIP, the cartoon mailman, was the mascot that sold the idea to America.ZIP+4 arrived in 1983 and can narrow a ZIP down to one side of one block.A ZIP code is a mail route, not a place: plenty of them cross county and even state lines.Play ZIP Hunt: guess the secret ZIP code of the day in six tries.
ZIP Hunt #23

🎯 ZIP Hunt #23

Somewhere in the United States is today’s secret ZIP code. Find it in six guesses.

How to play

  1. Guess any real ZIP code. Your own is a fine place to start.
  2. Follow the arrow. Each guess tells you how many miles away the secret is and which way to head.
  3. Read the colors. Each digit of your guess lights up:
    • 6 green: right digit, right spot. Keep it.
    • 6 yellow: the secret has this digit, but in a different spot. Move it.
    • 6 grey: the secret has no more of this digit. Drop it.
  4. Still stuck after three guesses? We tell you which state it is in.
Example. Say the secret is 60614 and you guess 60016: 60016
The first 6, the first 0 and the 1 are green: they are already in the right spots. The last 6 is yellow: the secret has a second 6, just not at the end. The second 0 is grey even though the secret contains a 0. It contains only one, and the green 0 already accounts for it. So a grey digit can still be in the secret; you just have all the copies of it you need.

Tip: the first digit is a region (0 in New England, 9 on the West Coast), so it is worth guessing a ZIP from a different part of the country first. Once you know the state, its ZIP codes all start the same way, and the arrow does the rest.

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6 guesses left.

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