LinkedIn Games: every daily puzzle, how each one works, and today's answers

Today's LinkedIn Games answers

Want every answer in one place? LinkedIn Games Answers Today lists all 8 on a single page, each hidden until you open it.

The eight games at a glance

LinkedIn launched Games on 30 April 2024 with three titles — Pinpoint, Queens and Crossclimb, announced together in a LinkedIn News story that day — and has added five more since, each announced on LinkedIn's newsroom on the day it went live. The table lists them in launch order, with each game's puzzle number on 3 September 2026, the first day in HintSheet's archive.

When LinkedIn games reset

All eight roll over at the same moment. LinkedIn's help centre puts it in one line on every game's page: "A new puzzle for each game is released daily at midnight Pacific Time (PT). Previous puzzles expire at this time and are no longer playable." Midnight Pacific is 3:00 AM Eastern, 8:00 AM in London and 12:30 PM in India while California is on daylight time; from 1 November 2026, when Pacific Standard Time begins, it is an hour later everywhere that does not change its clocks on the same day. Wordle, Connections and Strands change at your own local midnight, so in Europe the Times puzzles arrive overnight and the LinkedIn ones at breakfast. Our LinkedIn reset-time guide has the full table by city.

Each puzzle carries a number that goes up by one each day. Pinpoint, Crossclimb and Queens launched together and share a number — #856 on 3 September 2026 and #893 on 10 October 2026 in our archive — while the later games count from their own launches and so have lower numbers. HintSheet's answer pages show the number alongside the date because people search both ways.

Scoring, streaks and the leaderboard

LinkedIn's help pages describe the goal of each game rather than a points system. Pinpoint asks you to "guess the category with as few clue reveals as possible"; Crossclimb is described as "a timed trivia game". For every game, the results page then shows "your score compared to averages for all members, your company, CEOs, and more". There are no prizes — the games FAQ says so in as many words — so the rewards are the streak, the milestones and the comparison with your network.

Streaks count consecutive days *won*, separately for each game. LinkedIn's streak page says: "To maintain your streak, you must play and win the game daily before it expires at midnight Pacific Time (PT)." A streak freeze holds your streak through one missed day without adding to it; you earn one after winning five games in a row, can hold at most two per game, and they never expire. A broken streak of 31 days or more can be restored by playing three, five or seven days in a row (for streaks of 31–49, 50–99 and 100+ days) after LinkedIn's notification; streaks of 30 days or fewer cannot be restored. Your streak is private unless you share it.

Leaderboards come in two kinds. The connections leaderboard shows how you rank against connections — and, per the games FAQ, your score is visible only to connections who have also opted in. The company and school leaderboard ranks the top 50 companies and schools by the average score of their members; companies need at least 500 employees on LinkedIn, and only schools in the United States (listed within the NCAA) and India are currently included. Who sees your activity is set under Who can see your gaming activity? in each game's settings: "played only", "played and my score", or "only me".

Sharing is always a choice. From the results page you can post your score to your feed, send it to connections in a message, or copy it to paste on another platform; the leaderboard can be shared the same way. Depending on your visibility setting, connections may also be notified when you complete a game, and LinkedIn runs a daily discussion post for each game where players trade tips.

How HintSheet publishes LinkedIn answers

HintSheet's pipeline collects each LinkedIn puzzle shortly after the Pacific-midnight reset — in our commit log for 14–21 September 2026 the run at 07:04 UTC, four minutes after midnight Pacific Daylight Time, added the new board for all eight games every day. The puzzle data comes from two routes: a LinkedIn account where possible, and otherwise the structured puzzle data published by a public answer site, from which we take facts only, never prose; Pinpoint is cross-checked against a second site. The solution is then rendered from that data — the Queens board with its regions and crowns, the Tango grid with its signs, the Zip path drawn over the numbers — rather than typed out by hand.

Every page shows the puzzle number and date, and the full method is on the editorial policy page. If you see a board that does not match what LinkedIn showed you, the contact page reaches a human who will check it against the source and correct the page.

Which LinkedIn game to start with

This is a judgement call, so here is the reasoning rather than a ranking. Pinpoint needs no grid — just up to five clues and a category to name — so it is the gentlest introduction. Queens has the richest deduction of the logic games: boards in our archive run from 7×7 to 9×9, and every Saturday and Sunday board we stored between 3 September and 10 October 2026 was 9×9. Tango and Mini Sudoku are always 6×6 in our archive and reward the same row-and-column habits. Zip is quick and visual, with boards from 6×6 to 8×8 in our archive. Crossclimb is the odd one out — half trivia, half sorting — and suits people who enjoy general-knowledge clues.

Patches (March 2026) and Wend (June 2026) are the newest. LinkedIn's Patches announcement calls it Zip's "puzzle-loving sibling" whose difficulty "increases throughout the week" — our archive bears that out, with every Monday board 6×6 and most Saturday and Sunday boards 8×8. Wend is LinkedIn's first new word game since the 2024 launch. Their guides here grow as the archive does.

Playing on desktop versus the app

LinkedIn lists several ways into the games: the Games hub, the My Network page, the Today's Games section under LinkedIn News on the desktop homepage, the side panel in the mobile app (swipe right on the homepage), LinkedIn search and notifications. There is also a games widget you can add to your phone's home screen. Which device suits which game is personal; drawing a Zip path or a Patches shape is a drag gesture, while Crossclimb and Wend involve typing or tracing words, so try both before settling.

You do not need an account to play. LinkedIn's guest-mode page says you can play "without a LinkedIn account or signing in" — but a guest score is stored for only 30 minutes, guests cannot keep a streak, set alerts or see leaderboards, and a guest can copy a score to share elsewhere but cannot post it on LinkedIn. Sign in before the 30 minutes are up and the score and streak are saved.

A note on the games' future

The launch history shows a steady cadence: five months and a week from the first three games to Tango, five more to Zip, about five to Mini Sudoku, seven to Patches and under three to Wend. Each announcement has led with retention figures — 80% of players returning the next day at the Tango launch, 84% at Zip, 86% at Mini Sudoku, Patches and Wend — so LinkedIn clearly measures the games by daily return. Mini Sudoku was made with Nikoli, the small Japanese puzzle magazine that in LinkedIn's words "handcrafted sudoku", and Thomas Snyder, a three-time World Sudoku Champion, and the Patches announcement names Snyder as LinkedIn's Principal Puzzlemaster. If LinkedIn adds or retires a game, this hub will change to match, and every archive already published here stays online.

Streak strategy across eight games

Keeping eight streaks alive is a different problem from playing eight games well. The rules make it a scheduling problem: a win only counts for the Pacific day, so the reset hour in your time zone is the deadline. Pick a fixed slot after your local reset — a European morning, an Asian afternoon, an American evening before midnight Pacific — and the streaks look after themselves. If you can, turn on the Keep your streak reminder on the streak card, which notifies you when the next game is available.

Streak freezes are earned per game, so a consistent player builds up a cushion in every game separately: five straight wins earns a freeze, and each game holds up to two, applied automatically on a missed day. That means a single travel day costs nothing in a game where you have a freeze banked — but a game you have only just started, with no five-win run yet, has no cushion at all. For long streaks the restoration rule is the last line of defence: after LinkedIn's notification you have 48 hours to start, then three to seven consecutive days of play to bring the streak back.

Reader questions about LinkedIn games

"Can I play yesterday's puzzle?" No. LinkedIn's help pages say previous puzzles "expire" at the reset "and are no longer playable". The answer pages here list every past puzzle we have recorded.

"Why does my connection's results card show a different number?" Everyone gets the new puzzle at the same instant, midnight Pacific, so a different number means one of you is looking at a card from an earlier day. Check the date on the card.

"Can I play in another language?" The games themselves are in English. LinkedIn's FAQ says tutorials are translated to your app's language setting, and that Queens, Tango, Zip, Mini Sudoku and Patches are accessible in all supported languages.

"Can I suggest a new game?" Not at the moment — the games FAQ says LinkedIn is "not accepting submissions for new games at this time".

Glossary

Terms used across the eight guides, as LinkedIn's help pages define them.

• Reset — midnight Pacific Time, when all eight puzzles change and the previous day's expire.
• Streak — consecutive days won, per game, before the midnight-PT deadline.
• Streak freeze — earned after five wins in a row; holds a streak through one missed day; up to two per game; never expires.
• Streak restoration — a way to recover a lost streak of 31+ days by playing 3, 5 or 7 days in a row.
• Leaderboard — the connections leaderboard (opted-in connections) or the top-50 company and school leaderboard.
• Guest mode — playing without signing in; the score is kept for 30 minutes and no streak is saved.

Which games share a puzzle number

Pinpoint, Crossclimb and Queens launched together on 30 April 2024 and share a number (#856 on 3 September 2026). Tango launched on 7 October 2024 and was at #696 that day; Zip, launched 18 March 2025, at #535; Mini Sudoku, launched 12 August 2025, at #388; Patches, launched 18 March 2026, at #170; and Wend, launched 8 June 2026, at #87. The numbers go up by one each day. The numbers appear on results cards and on every HintSheet answer page, and they are the reliable way to compare notes with someone in another time zone.

Reader questions, third round

"Can I play in a browser without the app?" Yes — the Games hub works in a web browser, signed in or in guest mode.

"Do my results post to my feed automatically?" No. Posting is a button you choose on the results page; what connections can see otherwise depends on your gaming-activity visibility setting.

"Can recruiters see my scores?" LinkedIn's FAQ says your score stays private unless you opt into the connections leaderboard or share it — and then only connections who have also opted in can see it.

Accessibility, languages and guest play

LinkedIn's help pages document per-game assistance options rather than accessibility controls, and several of them help anyone who finds a game hard to read: Crossclimb has Auto-check and Auto-reorder, Queens has Auto-check and Auto-place X's, Mini Sudoku can count remaining numbers and highlight related cells, and every logic game has Hint, Undo and Clear or Reset. Tutorials follow your app's language, and five games are accessible in all supported languages. HintSheet's own answer pages are built for screen readers too: each rendered board is an image with a text label, the solution is also written out as a numbered text walkthrough, and every reveal control is a real button.

Every LinkedIn Games guide on HintSheet

• LinkedIn Pinpoint: how the game works, how to win in two clues, and today's answer — LinkedIn Pinpoint explained: how the five-clue category game works, how scoring rewards early guesses, the patterns categories follow, and where to find.
• LinkedIn Crossclimb: the word-ladder rules, why the order is the puzzle, and today's ladder — LinkedIn Crossclimb explained: solve the rung clues, order them so each word changes one letter from the last, then unlock the top and bottom.
• LinkedIn Queens: the rules, the four deductions that solve any board, and today's solution — LinkedIn Queens explained: one crown per row, column and colour region, no touching.
• LinkedIn Tango: suns, moons, the three-in-a-row rule, and how the = and × signs solve the board — LinkedIn Tango explained: fill the 6×6 with suns and moons, three of each per line, never three in a row, and obey the = and × signs.
• LinkedIn Zip game: one path, every cell, numbers in order — the rules and the way to think about it — LinkedIn Zip game explained: draw one path through every cell, hitting the numbers in order and respecting walls.
• LinkedIn Mini Sudoku: the 6×6 rules, the three techniques that finish it, and today's grid — LinkedIn Mini Sudoku explained: mini Sudoku on LinkedIn explained: six rows, six columns, six 2×3 boxes, digits 1–6.
• LinkedIn Patches: squares, tall and wide rectangles, and the counting that fills the grid — LinkedIn Patches explained: divide the grid into squares, tall rectangles and wide rectangles so each clue cell's shape and size are satisfied and every.
• LinkedIn Wend: hidden words traced through a letter grid, every letter used once — how to play and today's answer — LinkedIn Wend explained: trace hidden words through adjacent letters in a grid, using every letter exactly once — rules, a solved real board and today's answer.
• 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.

Other pillars: NYT Games · Dle Games. Or go back to today's puzzle answers across every game.

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