Pro tip: These puzzles are always best solved by working backwards.

Remember when you got CDs on the inside??? That era of cereal was the shit.

any alternative paths?

There are two paths. You can use either of two 10 hexes to connect 9 and 11.

This was fun, thanks

I found that there are 5 different solutions with several diverging paths:

spoiler

(I might have been a little bored...)

I used to do a lot of mazes as a kid and one of the tricks is to often start from the terminus and go backwards. There are significantly less branches doing that in this case especially.

I always knew that buzzyboi was a troll. Them double 28s and 37s were trying to trip us up.

just start from the 50 side and count down yall it's super easy, don't start at the 1 like a chump. Around the halfway mark is when it is the most complex with more choices at the 25–28 area

Huh. A pen and paper little puzzle format that I’ve never seen before.

I wonder what this whole category of games is even called. Used to see them in things like kids magazines mostly.

IDK if it would matter if you went from a number to another hex with that same number, but here is a path that only touches 50 hexes in order.

Yes, it's along the left side.