When Do LinkedIn Games Reset?

The reset time in your time zone

Midnight Pacific is early morning on the US East Coast and mid-afternoon in South and Southeast Asia. The table gives the moment the new puzzles appear for the cities people most often ask about, first for the current Pacific Daylight Time period and then for Pacific Standard Time, which begins on 1 November 2026.

Two things to read off the table. First, in the United Kingdom and most of Europe the reset is a morning event — 8:00 AM in London, 9:00 AM in Berlin and Paris — so the new puzzles arrive there in the morning, while across the Americas they arrive in the middle of the night. Second, from India eastward the new puzzle arrives in the afternoon of the same date, so "today's Pinpoint" in Manila or Sydney is a puzzle that is already several hours old in Los Angeles.

Why the reset moves for you but not for Californians

The reset is pinned to Pacific wall-clock time, not to UTC. When California switches from Pacific Daylight Time to Pacific Standard Time on Sunday 1 November 2026, midnight in Los Angeles moves from 07:00 UTC to 08:00 UTC — and everyone whose clocks do not change on the same day sees the reset shift by an hour. India, Singapore, the Philippines and Japan never change their clocks, so for them the reset simply gets an hour later in November and an hour earlier again in March.

Europe is the confusing case, because its clocks change on a different Sunday. The United Kingdom and the European Union end summer time on 25 October 2026, a week before the United States. For those seven days the reset in London is 7:00 AM rather than 8:00 AM, and in Berlin 8:00 AM rather than 9:00 AM; on 1 November it returns to the usual hour. The same one-week wobble happens every spring in the other direction, when the US moves first (8 March 2026 this year, 14 March in 2027) and Europe follows at the end of March.

Southern-hemisphere players get the opposite pattern. Sydney starts daylight saving on 4 October 2026 and Auckland on 27 September, so the reset moves later there in spring and later again when California falls back. The table above shows both steps for each city.

• 1 November 2026 — US and Canada end daylight saving. Reset moves from 07:00 UTC to 08:00 UTC. India, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand see it an hour later.
• 25 October 2026 — UK and EU end summer time, one week earlier. London sees 7:00 AM for a week, then 8:00 AM again.
• 4 October 2026 — Sydney and Melbourne start daylight saving; the reset moves from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM, then to 7:00 PM in November.
• 27 September 2026 — Auckland starts daylight saving; 7:00 PM becomes 8:00 PM, then 9:00 PM in November.

What we actually observed: the eight-day fetch log

HintSheet does not take the reset time on trust. Our pipeline looks for each LinkedIn game's new puzzle several times a day — from a LinkedIn account where possible, otherwise from the structured puzzle data a public answer site publishes — and commits each board the first time a run finds it. For the eight days from 14 to 21 September 2026 the pattern did not vary once: the 06:05 UTC run found nothing new for any of the eight games, and the 07:04 UTC run — four minutes after midnight Pacific Daylight Time — found all eight. That is consistent with LinkedIn's stated single release at 00:00 PT: no game appeared early, none arrived late, and all eight changed together.

The puzzle numbers advanced by exactly one each day across the log — Queens went from #867 on 14 September to #874 on 21 September — which also confirms there is one puzzle per game per day and no skipped or doubled days in that window.

Streaks: the reset is also the deadline

The same midnight-Pacific moment that releases tomorrow's puzzle expires today's for streak purposes. LinkedIn's streak page is explicit: "To maintain your streak, you must play and win the game daily before it expires at midnight Pacific Time (PT)." A streak counts consecutive days on which you won, and a day is a Pacific day, not your local day. If you are in London and finish Queens at 7:30 AM on a Tuesday, that win belongs to Monday's Pacific date — which is fine, as long as you also play Tuesday's puzzle after 8:00 AM.

The practical trap is the evening player in Asia or Australia. Someone in Sydney who habitually plays after dinner at 8:00 PM is playing a puzzle that expires at 5:00 PM local (6:00 PM once daylight saving starts on 4 October). Play at 8:00 PM and you are already on the next Pacific day's puzzle; skip a morning and the previous Pacific day passes with no win recorded. If your streak has ever broken on a day you are sure you played, check whether you played before or after the local reset hour in the table.

LinkedIn does provide two safety nets, both documented on the same help page. A streak freeze holds your streak for one missed day without adding to it, and you earn one after winning five games in a row. And a streak of 31 days or more that breaks can be restored: LinkedIn sends a notification, you have 48 hours to complete a game and begin, and you then play three, five or seven days in a row, depending on how long the lost streak was. Streaks of 30 days or fewer cannot be restored.

Why answer pages update a few minutes after the reset

Every HintSheet answer page for a LinkedIn game — Pinpoint, Crossclimb, Queens, Tango, Zip, Mini Sudoku, Patches and Wend — is refreshed by an automated fetch that runs shortly after midnight Pacific. In the log above the new boards were on the site by 07:04 UTC, four minutes after release; the page you land on shows the puzzle's date and number in the headline so you can see at a glance which day it is for.

If a source is late, the page says so instead of pretending. A gold "Most recent" label means the newest board we hold is from the previous Pacific day, and a countdown shows how long until the next reset. We would rather tell you the answer is not up yet than show yesterday's board under today's date, which is the easy mistake to make in the first minutes after midnight Pacific.

What happens to yesterday's puzzle

Inside LinkedIn, the game switches to the new puzzle at the reset, and every game's help page is explicit about the old one: "Previous puzzles expire at this time and are no longer playable." There is no official archive of past boards to replay. An older puzzle can't be replayed, but its answer can still be looked up, and that is what our archive holds: every board we fetched, dated and numbered, for each of the eight games.

Puzzle numbers make old boards easy to find. Because exactly one puzzle is released per game per day, the number and the date are interchangeable — Queens #874 is 21 September 2026 — and the archive pages are organised by month so a board from three weeks ago is two clicks away.

• LinkedIn Games hub — today's answer for all eight games on one page
• Pinpoint answer today · Queens answer today · Zip answer today
• Crossclimb answer today · Tango answer today · Mini Sudoku answer today
• Patches answer today · Wend answer today
• Full archive — every game, every day we have recorded, or start from today's puzzle answers across LinkedIn, NYT and the Dle family

How this compares with the other daily games

LinkedIn is unusual in resetting all of its games on one clock. The New York Times games each keep their own: Wordle, Connections and Strands at midnight in your own time zone, and Spelling Bee at 3:00 AM Eastern — which is the very same instant as the LinkedIn reset, since Eastern and Pacific clocks change on the same dates. The Dle family (Pokedle, LoLdle, Smashdle and their siblings) runs on UTC, with Pokedle at 06:00 UTC and the rest at midnight UTC.

So for a player on the US East Coast the daily sequence is: NYT at midnight, LinkedIn at 3:00 AM, and the Dle games through the small hours. For a player in Europe the whole set has turned over by breakfast, and for a player in Asia the games arrive across the afternoon. If you play several of them, the homepage lists every game with a live countdown to its next reset, so you never have to convert the times yourself.

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• LinkedIn Games answers today
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