LinkedIn Games Answers Today (October 19, 2026)

Which weekdays bring the biggest LinkedIn boards

LinkedIn doesn't publish a difficulty schedule, so we measured the one thing that can be counted without guessing: the size of each board. The table covers the puzzles from Thursday 3 September to Sunday 11 October 2026 on HintSheet — 39 days, with Queens missing 5 and 11 September and the other logic games missing 5 September. Numbers in brackets are how many boards of that size fell on that weekday. Mini Sudoku is always a 6×6 grid, so its column shows the average number of prefilled digits instead; fewer givens means more cells for you to fill.

Read across a row to see what a given morning tends to look like, or down a column to see one game's weekly rhythm. In all six columns the weekend puzzles are the bigger ones, or in Mini Sudoku's case the emptier ones.

What the weekday pattern means for your morning

The clearest signal is the weekend. Every Saturday and Sunday Queens in the window was 9×9, against mostly 7×7 boards on Mondays and Tuesdays. Patches moved from 6×6 every Monday to 8×8 on eight of the eleven weekend days, and its average number of pieces rose from 6.8 on Tuesdays to 12.0 on Sundays. Wend grew from a 5×5 grid with four words every Monday to 7×7 grids averaging 5.7 words on Sundays. Zip followed the same curve with one wrinkle: Monday and Wednesday grids were all 6×6, yet Mondays averaged 10.8 numbered dots to Wednesday's 7.6, and Sundays topped the window at 12.7.

Mini Sudoku runs the other way, because its grid never changes size. Mondays gave you the most help — an average of 15.6 of the 36 cells already filled — and the givens thinned out through the week to 10.3 on Sundays. Crossclimb always has seven rungs, and from Monday to Friday every ladder in the window used four-letter words; the only five- and six-letter ladders landed on weekends, four of them on Sundays.

Two games show no weekday rhythm at all. Every Pinpoint in the window had five clues, and every Tango was 6×6; Tango's prefilled symbols ranged from 4 to 12 with the lowest averages on Sundays (5.7) and Fridays (6.3), but Saturday averaged 8.8, so there is no steady ramp. Size is not the whole story either — a small Queens board with awkward regions can take longer than a large one — but if you play all eight before work, the table says weekdays are lighter and the weekend boards need more time. Past boards for any day are in each game's archive, such as past Queens answers.

Checking one answer without spoiling the rest

This page is built so that opening one game's answer doesn't give away another. Each game has its own block, in the same fixed order every day, and nothing inside a block is visible until you open it.

• Jump, don't scroll. The row of game buttons under the introduction takes you straight to one game's block, so you don't have to pass the others on the way.
• Each answer is closed by default. A block shows the game's name and puzzle number; the solution — category, ladder, board or path — appears only when you tap that game's "Show the … answer" control.
• Want a nudge rather than the solution? Each block links to that game's own answer page. The Pinpoint page lists all five clues in the order the game reveals them, and the Crossclimb page sets out the ladder rung by rung, so you can read only as far as you need.
• Stuck on a logic grid you've half filled? Queens, Tango and Zip have solvers that take the board as you see it, so you can check your own partial solution — start from the Queens solver.
• Playing late? If a block says today's puzzle isn't up yet, it is showing the most recent puzzle and its date, so you never mistake yesterday's board for today's.

When the new set reaches this page

LinkedIn's help page on its games says "New puzzles are released daily at midnight Pacific Time (PT)", and that one moment covers all eight games. Our pipeline collects the new boards shortly afterwards and this page rebuilds from them. In the eight days we logged in September, the new boards were on the site by 07:04 UTC — a few minutes after midnight Pacific Daylight Time. From 1 November 2026, when the Pacific clock falls back, midnight Pacific becomes 08:00 UTC, so the update arrives an hour later on a UTC clock. The full time-zone table and the daylight-saving dates are on when do LinkedIn games reset.

The headline date at the top of the page is the newest puzzle date we hold. If one game's data arrives later than the others, its block says so and shows the previous puzzle with its date, while the games that have updated show today's. The countdown beside the headline counts to the next midnight Pacific reset. Remember that the reset is also your streak deadline; if you're cutting it close, how LinkedIn streak freezes work explains what happens when you miss a day.

Puzzle numbers: eight counters, not one

Every block shows the puzzle number LinkedIn gives that game, and it is the quickest way to confirm you're looking at the same puzzle as the one on your screen. The numbers are not shared across all eight games. Pinpoint, Crossclimb and Queens launched together and use one counter; each later game started its own at its launch. Each counter goes up by one every day — between 3 September and 11 October 2026 every game's number in our archive rose by exactly 38 over those 38 days. These were the numbers on Sunday 11 October 2026; add one for each day since.

If an answer here doesn't match your game

Start with the puzzle number. A mismatch often just means two different days are being compared — a results card a connection posted yesterday, a tab left open overnight, or a game that hasn't updated on our side yet, which the block will say in plain words. If the numbers match and the answer still differs, it may be our error, and we want to hear about it.

The answers on this page are collected automatically and published without manual review: from a LinkedIn account where possible, and otherwise from the structured puzzle data a public LinkedIn answers site publishes, as our editorial policy explains. That means a mistake in the source can reach the page. Use the contact page and include the game, the date, the puzzle number and what the game showed you; the contact page commits to correcting answers the same day. For older puzzles, the puzzle answers archive keeps every board we have stored, and LinkedIn itself has no replay of past puzzles.

When to open the full answer page instead

This page is the quick check. Each game's own answer page goes deeper in ways that matter once you want to learn the game rather than just finish it: it draws the solved board, the Queens, Tango and Zip pages add a short list of solving steps for that kind of grid, Wend's page lists every word with the cells it runs through, and the Patches page describes each shape and where it sits. For what each game is and how its rules work, the LinkedIn games hub covers all eight; for the New York Times puzzles in the same spirit, see NYT games answers. Bookmark this page if you want all eight answers in one place each morning, and the single-game pages for the games you're trying to get better at.

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