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Let \\(I_{n}(G)=\\{ g \\in G \\mid [g,_{n}\\!x]=1=[x,_{n}\\!g] \\;\\; \\forall x \\in G \\}\\). The \\(n\\)-th Engel graph \\(\\Gamma_{n}(G)=(V_{n},E_{n})\\) of \\(G\\) is the directed graph having vertex set \\(V_{n}=G \\setminus I_{n}(G)\\) and \\((g,h) \\in E_{n}\\) if and only if \\([g,_{n}\\!h]=1\\).  A directed graph is strongly connected if for any pair of vertices there exists a directed path from the first vertex in the pair to the second.  The main result in this paper is (Theorem 1.1): Let \\(G\\) be an almost simple group with socle \\(L\\) and let \\(n \\geq 2\\) be the smallest natural number \\(n\\) for which \\(\\Gamma_{n}(G)\\) is strongly connected. Then \\(n=2\\) except when \\(G\\) is one of the groups explicitly listed by the authors (see Table 1). In particular if \\(G\\) is a simple group, then \\(\\Gamma_{n}(G)\\) is not strongly connected for every \\(n\\) if \\(G\\simeq \\mathrm{PSL}_{2}(2,q)\\) with \\(q=2^{f}\\), \\(f \\geq 2\\), or \\(q \\equiv 5 \\mod 8\\) or if \\(G\\simeq \\mathrm{Sz}(2^{2f+1})\\) with \\(f>0\\).  For every \\(n\\), \\(\\Gamma_{n}(G)\\) is a subgraph of \\(\\Gamma_{n+1}(G)\\) and one can verify that, if \\(\\Gamma_{n}(G)\\) is strongly connected, then \\(\\Gamma_{n}(G)=\\Gamma_{n+1}(G)\\) (that is \\(|E_{n}|=|E_{n+1}|\\)). It may be interesting to note that, when \\(\\Gamma_{n}(G)\\) is never strongly connected, then \\(\\Gamma_{2}(\\mathrm{PSL}_{2}(2,q))=\\Gamma_{3}(\\mathrm{PSL}_{2}(2,q))\\) and \\(\\Gamma_{3}(\\mathrm{Sz}(2^{2f+1}))=\\Gamma_{4}(\\mathrm{Sz}(2^{2f+1}))\\).  The behavior of Engel elements in a group is quite erratic. The reviewer points out that finding the minimum \\(r\\) (and the minimum \\(t\\)) for which \\([g,_{r}\\!h]=[g,_{r+t}\\!h]\\) for every pair of elements \\(g\\) and \\(h\\) of a simple group \\(G\\) is a problem that has been studied by \\textit{R. Brandl} and \\textit{D. B. Nikolova}, in [Bull. Aust. Math. Soc. 33, 245--251 (1986; Zbl 0574.20028)]. In that paper they prove that \\(G=\\mathrm{PSL}(2,q)\\) has \\(r=3\\) if and only if \\(q=4,8\\) (and \\(t=60, 126\\) respectively). 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