About HintSheet, in one paragraph: HintSheet is an independent site that publishes the daily answers, hints and strategy for eighteen puzzle games — LinkedIn's eight, the New York Times' four, and six games from the Dle family — and a set of solvers for boards of your own. It launched in September 2026 and is run by one person, Sukie, who maintains the site and handles corrections.
It exists because searching for a puzzle answer is a worse experience than it should be: pages that hide the answer behind clicks, pages that are a screenshot and three sentences, pages that spoil the puzzle you only wanted a hint for. HintSheet's rules are the opposite. The answer is the first thing on the answer page. Hints are staged so you see only what you ask for. Boards and lists are rendered from structured puzzle data, not copied from screenshots. And nothing here is a copy of the games themselves.
Who runs it
Sukie is the editor and the only person behind the site. She maintains the game guides, answers email and handles corrections. The daily answer pages are generated automatically and are not individually reviewed before they go live, which is why reports from readers matter. Her author page has her photo and a short bio, and every page on the site carries her byline with the date it was published and last updated. There are no anonymous or invented contributors.
How the answers are produced
Daily answers are fetched automatically by scripts that run several times a day, and each answer page is generated from the data they collect. For the Times' Connections, Strands and Wordle, that is the puzzle data nytimes.com serves for each date, held back until the puzzle's own date. For Spelling Bee, the day's letters come from the puzzle page; the Times doesn't publish its accepted-word list, so the list on our page is computed from a standard English word list and the page says it may differ. For the six Dle games, it is the answer file each game publishes for its own pages. For LinkedIn's eight games, it is the puzzle data — clues, boards and solutions — republished by a public LinkedIn answers site, because LinkedIn serves new accounts practice puzzles; only those facts are taken, never that site's text, and Pinpoint clues are compared with a second public page when it can be read.
The short commentary on daily pages is generated automatically from the day's puzzle data using fixed per-game wording, and it is not individually reviewed; the editorial policy describes the process in detail. The long-form guides and hubs are written with AI assistance under Sukie's direction, and the numbers and rules they state are checked against the sources each page cites.
What the site doesn't do
It doesn't host playable versions of any game. Queens, Wordle, Pokedle and the rest belong to LinkedIn, the Times and the developers who made them; every guide links to the real game to play. It doesn't publish NYT answers before the puzzle date, even where that's technically possible. It doesn't run affiliate links, sponsored posts or third-party content. And it doesn't collect anything you type into the solvers — they run in your browser.
How it makes money
Display advertising, through Google AdSense, once the site is approved. Ads are kept away from the answer and the reveal controls so nobody clicks one by accident. There is no paywall and no membership. If that changes, this page will say so first.
Corrections and contact
If an answer is wrong — for example because a game changed its puzzle after we fetched it — email the address on the contact page. We aim to correct errors the same day, and the page's updated date changes when its content does. Suggestions for games to add are welcome through the same address.
Independence
HintSheet is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to LinkedIn Corporation, The New York Times Company, Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, Riot Games, Valve, or any game publisher or developer. Game names are used only to identify the puzzles discussed. All trademarks belong to their owners.
What's next
More games as demand shows up — the Dle family is large, and there are LinkedIn and Times puzzles this site doesn't yet cover. More solvers where a solver adds something a hint page can't. And a steady refresh of the guides as the games change, with the updated date on each page reflecting real edits. Suggestions go to the contact page; the ones that recur get built.