Puzzle answers archive: every past answer for every game, by month and number

LinkedIn Games

NYT Games

Dle Games

How the archive is organised

Every game's archive page lists every puzzle HintSheet has published for it, newest first, grouped by month, in a table with the date, the number where the game has one, and a one-line summary. Each date links to that day's full solution: a page of its own for the games with per-puzzle pages, or the day's entry on its month page for the rest. Per-puzzle pages carry links to the previous and next puzzle so you can walk through a run of days.

Dates are the puzzle's own date — Pacific for LinkedIn, the puzzle date in NYT's data for the Times' games, and the game's own day for the Dle games — which is also the date the answer was published here.

How far back the archive goes, per game

Each game starts on the first day HintSheet captured it. Connections, Wordle, Strands and Spelling Bee begin on 1 September 2026; the six Dle games on 2 September, with both time zones' answers; and the eight LinkedIn games on 3 September 2026. The Times serves some puzzles ahead of their dates, and those are held back and released on their dates, never early. Nothing earlier than those start dates will appear, and no entry is ever back-filled from another site; the archive is a record of what this site captured and published, not a scrape of the internet's memory.

Month pages appear as soon as a game has at least one published answer in that month, so a new month's page exists from its first day. Game hubs keep the most recent answers in a card grid; the month pages hold everything.

What the archive is for

Three uses come up constantly. Settling a dispute — 'what was yesterday's Pinpoint?' — which the archive answers in a click or two. Studying a game — reading a month of Connections purple groups in a row is the fastest way to learn the mechanisms the guide describes. And catching up on a missed day out of curiosity. Every page carries its original publish date.

Coverage and gaps

The archive is complete from each game's first day on HintSheet, as listed above. Earlier puzzles are not reconstructed — the site publishes what it captures, and doesn't backfill from other sources. If a day is missing for a game, it is because the data could not be captured that day, and the gap is left rather than filled from another site's copy.

Using the archive with the guides

Each guide's counts — Connections' purple mechanisms, Wordle's repeated letters, where the Strands spangram runs, Spelling Bee's word totals — are drawn from the puzzles in this archive, and each guide names the window it counted. If you want to check one, the month pages are the raw material: read a month of purple groups and the mechanism list stops being an assertion and becomes something you've seen.

How dates and numbers work

Every entry has a date in its game's time zone, and most carry a number. For LinkedIn's eight games and the Dle family, the number is the game's own. For Connections, Wordle and Strands, the number HintSheet stores is an id from NYT's puzzle data, which is not the number in the game's share text — the game counts Connections from 12 June 2023, Strands from 4 March 2024 and Wordle from 19 June 2021 — so look those up by date. Spelling Bee has no number and is filed by date. The Dle games' two time zones share a date and appear together, labelled Europe and America, with each region's number.

Requesting a missing day

If a day you're sure ran isn't in the archive, the contact page reaches the editor; missing days are backfilled only when the puzzle can be verified from the game itself, never from another site's copy. The archive's value is that everything in it was checked; a reconstructed entry would undercut that.

A note on permanence

Answer pages are not deleted or unpublished. If a game is discontinued, its archive stays where it is with a note on the hub. If a puzzle is corrected after publication, the page is changed to match the game and the change is dated. The point of an archive is that it can be relied on to still be there; a site that prunes old answers to look tidy isn't an archive.

Which games have numbered pages

Some games have a page per puzzle; the rest are archived by month. Per-puzzle pages are kept out of search results, and the game's archive page is the one to bookmark.

How puzzle numbers and dates line up

Every game in the archive is filed under its calendar date, and most also under a number. They are not interchangeable, and knowing which one to use saves scrolling. LinkedIn's games count up from their launch, so the number is what most people search for the morning after: Queens, Pinpoint and Crossclimb were all on #856 on 3 September 2026. The Times' games number their puzzles in the game too, but the id HintSheet stores for them comes from NYT's puzzle data and does not match — the 2 September 2026 Connections board is #1,179 in the game's share text and 1273 in the data — so for those games, use the date. Spelling Bee does not number at all. The Dle family numbers each time zone, which is why a Pokedle entry can carry one number for Europe and another for America on the same day.

The archive resolves this quietly. Games that have per-puzzle pages get one per number or date, and the month pages list every puzzle in a month, newest first, with the game hub keeping a short recent list so the last week is one click from anywhere.

Dates are stored in each game's own terms, not your clock's. A LinkedIn puzzle is filed under its Pacific-time date and a Times puzzle under the date in NYT's data. If you play late in the evening in Europe, the archive date can therefore be one day earlier than the date on your clock. Each entry states its date beside the puzzle, so there is no ambiguity once you are on it.

What an archived answer actually contains

An archived page is not a stripped-down copy of the day's page. It is the day's page, kept as it was published, with the same rendered board, the same step-by-step walkthrough and the same explanation of why the answer works. For the grid games — Queens, Tango, Zip, Mini Sudoku, Patches and Wend — that means the solved board is drawn again from the stored solution data every time the page loads, not served as a screenshot. For the word games it means the full list of accepted words, the spangram, the four Connections groups in difficulty order, or the Pinpoint clues alongside the category they point to.

Two things change after a page enters the archive. First, the countdown to the next puzzle disappears, because there is no next puzzle for a past date. Second, the neighbour links at the foot of the page switch from "today" to the previous and next puzzle in the sequence, so you can step through a run of days without returning to the month list. Nothing about the answer itself is edited after publication; if a correction is ever needed, the page records the change date rather than silently rewriting history.

The archive begins on 1 September 2026 for the Times' games, 2 September for the Dle games and 3 September for LinkedIn's. There is no back-fill of older answers from other sites. Every entry was captured from structured puzzle data, as described on the editorial policy page, on the day it ran.

• Rendered board or word list, identical to the day it was published
• The walkthrough and explanation, unchanged
• The puzzle's date, and its number where the game has one
• Previous and next puzzle links in place of the countdown
• A change date if the entry was ever corrected

Using the archive to practise

The archive is most useful when you stop treating it as a lookup and start treating it as a training set. Queens is the clearest example: the four deductions on the strategy guide are abstract until you have watched them fire on a dozen real boards, and a month of archived Queens pages is exactly that. Open a past board, cover the crowns with your hand, work it, then reveal. The walkthrough tells you which deduction should have unlocked each step, which is far more instructive than simply seeing the answer.

Connections rewards a different kind of practice. Reading a month of purple groups in a row makes the Times' recurring title forms — STARTING WITH, ENDING IN, a ___ to fill — impossible to unsee: in the 41 boards from 1 September to 11 October 2026 those three forms covered 28 of the 41 purple groups. Once you have the catalogue in your head the purple group stops being a coin flip. The Connections guide lists the mechanisms; the archive is where you meet them in the wild.

For Wordle and Spelling Bee the archive doubles as a reference. None of the 41 Wordle answers from 1 September to 11 October 2026 repeated another, so a past-answers list is a reasonable way to prune guesses, and the Bee pages show the Times' own word lists — which pangrams and which unexpected words (NAAN, ROMCOM) were accepted — which is the knowledge that separates Genius from Queen Bee. If you would rather work from the official sources, the games' own How to Play panels and LinkedIn's help center describe the rules; neither publishes a list of past answers.

If a past answer looks wrong

Every entry in the archive was captured automatically by the pipeline described on the editorial policy page, but automation is not infallible and games occasionally change their own puzzles after publication. If an archived answer disagrees with what you played, send the date and the discrepancy through the contact page. Corrections are made to the archived page itself and the change date is recorded on it, so that anyone relying on the archive for practice can see which entries were amended.