Puzzle Answers Today

HintSheet exists to make the answer quick to find and easy to read. The answer is drawn from the puzzle's own data — the Queens board with its crowns, the Strands grid with the spangram highlighted, the Spelling Bee list by word length — and it is the first thing on the page.

The cards above are today's puzzles. Below them is the part most answer sites skip: what each game is, why the answers are shaped the way they are, and the strategy that means you need this site a little less tomorrow. The hubs — LinkedIn Games, NYT Games, Dle Games — go deeper on each family, and every game has its own guide.

A word on how this site is run, because it matters for trust. There is one editor, Sukie, who maintains every page. Daily solutions are collected automatically from structured puzzle data — the Times' own data for its games, each Dle game's own answer file, and, for LinkedIn's games, structured data published by a public LinkedIn answers site — and the editorial policy says exactly how. Explanations are researched with AI assistance and edited before they go up. Nothing here is a playable copy of any game — this is an answers and strategy site, and it links to the real games to play.

Every daily answer page on HintSheet renders the day's solution from the puzzle's own data — boards, grids, word lists — rather than reproducing a screenshot. The homepage cards above are drawn from the same data.

What 'puzzle answers today' means on this site

"Today" is defined by each game's own clock, which is not the same clock. LinkedIn's help page says its games release new puzzles daily at midnight Pacific. Wordle, Connections and Strands load the puzzle for your device's date, so they change at your local midnight; HintSheet publishes them at midnight Eastern. Spelling Bee releases at 3 a.m. Eastern. The Dle games switch at midnight in the time zone set in each game — UTC+2 for Europe and UTC−6 for America. Every answer page states its game's reset, and the homepage shows the newest published puzzle for each game — so at 1 AM Eastern the NYT cards have rolled over while the LinkedIn cards still show yesterday's, correctly.

Every page carries the puzzle's date. LinkedIn and Dle pages also carry the game's own puzzle number, which is what people search for ("Queens 856"). For the Times' games the number on some labels is an id from NYT's puzzle data rather than the number in the game's share text, so search those by date.

Hints first, by design

Most people who search for a puzzle answer don't want the whole answer. They want to be unstuck. So the games with a hint culture — Connections, Wordle, Strands — have a separate hints page where each clue sits behind its own reveal, ordered from least to most revealing: a short clue, then a category name, then the words; a vowel count, then a first letter, then the word. You stop where you like. The answer page, by contrast, shows everything at once with nothing to click, for people who are done.

LinkedIn's games and the Dle games don't have the same hint tradition — their answer is a board or a name — so their pages show the solution directly with a walkthrough of the reasoning underneath, which is the useful part if you want to get better.

The three families, and how they differ

LinkedIn Games are short logic and word puzzles inside the professional network. LinkedIn's help page describes them as daily thinking games you can compete on with your network, with streaks and leaderboards, and says anyone — LinkedIn member or not — can play. Queens and Tango are grid logic; Zip is a path puzzle; Pinpoint is word association and Crossclimb a trivia ladder; Mini Sudoku, Patches and Wend round out the set. They release new puzzles at midnight Pacific.

NYT Games are the daily word puzzles that made the format: Wordle (five letters, six guesses), Connections (sixteen words, four groups), Strands (a themed letter grid) and Spelling Bee (seven letters, every word you can make). Each credits a named editor at the Times, and the Times publishes its own help alongside them — the Connections Companion, Wordle Review and the Spelling Bee Forum.

Dle games are fan-made attribute-guessing games in the Wordle mould — Pokedle for Pokémon, LoLdle for League of Legends, and the rest. Guess a character; the game tells you which attributes match. Most have several modes, and each runs on two time zones, Europe and America, so HintSheet lists both.

The eighteen games HintSheet covers, by family, with reset times.
Family	Games	Resets	Hub
LinkedIn	Pinpoint, Crossclimb, Queens, Tango, Zip, Mini Sudoku, Patches, Wend	12:00 AM PT	LinkedIn Games
NYT	Connections, Wordle, Strands, Spelling Bee	Local midnight / 3:00 AM ET (Bee)	NYT Games
Dle	Pokedle, LoLdle, Smashdle, Narutodle, OnePiecedle, Dotadle	Midnight UTC+2 (Europe) / UTC−6 (America)	Dle Games

How the answers are produced

Each answer page is generated from structured puzzle data, not transcribed from a screenshot. For the Times' games that is the data the games themselves load — including Spelling Bee's daily answer list. For the Dle games it is the answer file each game publishes for its own pages. For LinkedIn's eight games it is the structured puzzle data — clues, boards and solutions — published by a public LinkedIn answers site. That is why a Queens answer here is a drawn board with crowns rather than a list of coordinates, and why a Wordle answer comes with a letter breakdown.

Answers are not compared against a second source before publishing, with one exception described on the editorial policy page: Pinpoint clues are compared with a second public answers page when it can be read. If you ever see a mismatch between a page and the game, the contact page reaches the editor, and the page is corrected to match the game.

Solvers, for when the answer isn't the point

Some days you don't want today's answer; you want help with a board of your own — a Wordle pattern that won't resolve, a Queens board you've painted in from a friend's screenshot, a Spelling Bee hive from three days ago. The solvers do that: a Wordle solver that lists the words still possible with the most common letters first, a Spelling Bee solver that searches a broad dictionary for any hive, Queens, Tango and Zip solvers that take the board you enter, and a Connections helper that lays out letter patterns without grouping the words for you. All of them run in your browser; nothing you type is uploaded.

Getting better at daily puzzles, generally

Across all eighteen games, three habits make the biggest difference between a quick solve and a long one.

Look before you touch. Fifteen seconds of reading the board — the edges in Zip, the smallest regions in Queens, the signs in Tango, all sixteen words in Connections, all four edges in Strands — is the highest-value time you'll spend.

Commit to what's certain, then let elimination work. Logic puzzles are designed so that each certain placement creates the next. Guessing early makes the board harder, not easier.

Read the wordplay games as letters, not meanings. Connections' purple group (36 of 41 recent purple titles named a letter or phrase trick), Strands' phrase spangrams and Spelling Bee's pangrams all reward looking at spelling when meaning runs out.

Why there's no playable game here

Plenty of answer sites bolt on "unlimited" clones of the games they cover. HintSheet doesn't, on purpose. The games belong to LinkedIn, the Times and the fan developers who make the Dle family; copying their boards and artwork isn't something a site that wants to be around next year should do. Every guide links to the real game. What you get here is the answer, the reasoning, and tools for your own boards.

The archive

Every answer HintSheet publishes stays published. Each game has an archive browsable by month, so "what was Queens #856" or "Strands from last Tuesday" is a click or two away. The archive runs from the first day HintSheet captured each game — 1 September 2026 for the Times' games, 2 September for the Dle games and 3 September for LinkedIn's — and nothing in it is back-filled from another site.

A note on speed and accuracy

Answer sites compete on being first. HintSheet's pages are generated from structured data on a fixed schedule rather than typed up in a rush: the Times' games are published at midnight Eastern (the Bee after its 3 a.m. release) and never before their date, and the scripts that collect the other games run several times a day. The Times' games are read from the puzzle data the games themselves load and are exact. LinkedIn games come from a public answers site's structured data, and the Dle games from each game's own daily answer file. Where a game changes its puzzle after release, the page is corrected to match.

Reading this site on a phone

Pages are built to be opened mid-game on a phone: the answer or the first hint is near the top, the boards are drawn as vector graphics that stay sharp at any size, and the reveal buttons are large enough to tap without opening the next one by mistake. Share buttons are plain links — no third-party scripts load until you tap one — and the solvers run in the browser with nothing uploaded.

Reader questions

"Which page should I bookmark?" This one — it shows every game's newest puzzle — or the hub for the family you play.

"Do you cover the NYT crossword or the Mini?" Not at present.

"Can I request a game?" Yes, through the contact page; games are added when there's demand and a reliable way to read them.

Strategy guides

LinkedIn Streak Freeze: How to Earn One and How Many You Can Hold — LinkedIn streak freeze rules from LinkedIn Help: win 5 games in a row to earn one, hold up to two per game; they never expire and apply on a missed day.
When Do LinkedIn Games Reset? — When do LinkedIn games reset? Every day at midnight Pacific Time (3 AM Eastern) for all eight games, with the local time in your zone through daylight saving.

Frequently asked questions

What time do puzzle answers update on HintSheet?

On each game's own schedule: midnight Pacific for LinkedIn games; midnight Eastern for Connections, Wordle and Strands (the games themselves change at your local midnight); after the 3 a.m. Eastern release for Spelling Bee; and midnight UTC+2 and UTC−6 for the Dle games' Europe and America time zones.

Do the hint pages spoil the answer?

No. Each hint is behind its own reveal and the answer is always the last one. You see only what you tap.

Which puzzles does HintSheet cover?

Eighteen: eight LinkedIn games, four NYT games and six Dle games. The full list is in the table above.

Are the answers accurate?

They are generated from structured puzzle data — the Times' own data for its games, each Dle game's answer file, and a public LinkedIn answers site's data for LinkedIn's games. If a page ever disagrees with the game, report it and it will be corrected to match.

Can I play the games on HintSheet?

No. This is an answers and strategy site; every guide links to the real game.

Who writes HintSheet?

Sukie, the site's editor. Explanations are researched with AI assistance and edited before publication — see the editorial policy.

Is there an archive of past answers?

Yes. Every game has an archive by month, from the first day HintSheet captured it.

How do I report a wrong answer?

Use the contact page. The aim is to correct errors the same day, and the page's updated date reflects the change.

Why are there two answers for Pokedle and LoLdle?

Those games run on two time zones, Europe (UTC+2) and America (UTC−6), and for part of each day the two are on different puzzles. Both are listed, labelled by region.

Does HintSheet have solvers?

Yes — Wordle, Spelling Bee, Queens, Tango and Zip solvers plus a Connections helper, all running in your browser.

Sources and further reading

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