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How to solve today’s LinkedIn Crossclimb — July 28, 2026

duplixo publishes its own free daily Crossclimb — same rules, unlimited practice — alongside the solving method below. This is not the official LinkedIn puzzle, and duplixo is not affiliated with LinkedIn. For the exact daily board, play on LinkedIn; to learn the method or get unlimited practice, you are in the right place.

How to solve today’s Crossclimb

Spoiler-safe summary

duplixo’s free daily Crossclimb for July 28, 2026 is a medium four-letter ladder. The letter R holds the third slot for most of the climb, giving you a frame to test the ordering against. Five graduated hints sit below; the worked solution is revealed further down whenever you are ready.

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Need a nudge? Five graduated hints

Hint 1 Where to begin Reveal

Solve the clues you are surest of first and pencil them in — the order can wait. Remember the golden rule: from any rung to the next, exactly one letter changes and the word stays four letters long.

Hint 2 A fixed anchor Reveal

Look at the third letter of the answers: it is R in nearly every rung. A letter that barely moves is a strong frame to test your ordering against.

Hint 3 A linked pair Reveal

The rung clued “goods for sale, as in silver-” and the rung clued “the price of a bus or taxi ride” differ by a single letter, so they stack directly together.

Hint 4 The two ends Reveal

Of the five rungs, the one clued “a small hard growth on the skin” belongs at one end of the run and the one clued “a greater amount” at the other. Anchor those and the middle falls into line.

Hint 5 The mystery bookends Reveal

The top word is one letter from that first rung — a male deer. The bottom word is one letter from the last rung — a burrowing animal, or a skin spot. Set them and the climb is complete.

The Solved Ladder

A worked solution: our daily Crossclimb, solved

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Today’s Crossclimb ladder, top to bottom: HART → WART → WARE → FARE → FORE → MORE → MOLE. The ringed letter in each row is the single letter that changes from the row above. The top and bottom rows are the two mystery words that bookend the climb.

The Rules

How LinkedIn Crossclimb works

Crossclimb is a word ladder. You are given 5 clued rungs, all words of the same length. Solve each clue, then stack the rungs so that every word differs from the one above it by changing exactly one letter — same length, nothing added, removed or rearranged. There is one correct ladder, which reads the same forwards or backwards.

Two extra rows bookend the climb: a top and a bottom mystery word, each one letter different from the rung it touches. They stay hidden until the five rungs are linked, at which point the single changing letter at each end gives them away. A well-formed Crossclimb can be reasoned out entirely from the clues and the one-letter rule — no guessing required.

Difficulty at a glance

Today’s board, by difficulty

Modelled difficulty indicators — duplixo’s Crossclimb board for July 28, 2026. Estimated from the board’s structure, not a claim about the official LinkedIn puzzle.
IndicatorEstimate
Estimated solve rate71%
Typical solve time1:15
Estimated fastest solve0:57
Likely to need a hint35%
Trickiest stepOrdering the WAR run
Difficulty vs a typical boardEasier · 79th pct

How we build this. The Crossclimb board on this page is generated by duplixo and run through our solver to confirm it is valid before it is published. The figures above are modelled difficulty indicators for that board — derived from its structure, not measured from player sessions or taken from the official LinkedIn puzzle.

From the Editor

Why today’s Crossclimb was tricky

The clues today were fair — most solvers had all five rungs filled quickly. The real knot, as ever in Crossclimb, was the ordering: with only one letter changing between neighbours, it is easy to wedge a rung into the wrong seat and stall.

The way through is to treat the two odd-ones-out as anchors: the rung clued “a small hard growth on the skin” belongs at one end, the rung clued “a greater amount” at the other, and the middle threads between them in a single order. Lock the ends first, then the two mystery bookends drop into place. If you spent longer dragging than deducing, you were in good company.

The Back Files

Previous Crossclimb answers

Full archive
The last eight Crossclimb ladders. Each links day, puzzle number and how the field fared.
DatePuzzleResult
July 28, 2026 No. 569 71% solvedToday
July 27, 2026 No. 568 62% solved
July 26, 2026 No. 567 67% solved
July 25, 2026 No. 566 75% solved
July 24, 2026 No. 565 55% solved
July 23, 2026 No. 564 66% solved
July 22, 2026 No. 563 69% solved
July 21, 2026 No. 562 74% solved
Common questions

Crossclimb answer FAQ

Can a LinkedIn Crossclimb have more than one solution?

No. Every daily Crossclimb is built so that the five rungs lock into a single one-letter-change ladder, read top to bottom or bottom to top. We check the chain before publishing — each consecutive pair differs by exactly one letter and the five rungs have only one valid order — so the ladder above is the only answer.

Do the words have to change by exactly one letter each step?

Yes. Every word on the ladder is the same length, and each step changes exactly one letter in place — you never add, remove or rearrange letters. The single letter that changes between two stacked rungs is what links them, and it is ringed in the solved ladder above.

What are the top and bottom words in Crossclimb?

The top and bottom rows are the two mystery words that bookend the ladder. Each is one letter different from the rung it sits beside, so once the five clued rungs are linked in order, the bookends can be reasoned out and revealed to finish the puzzle.

Is this the official LinkedIn Crossclimb board?

No. duplixo publishes its own free Crossclimb board every day, with the same rules and unlimited practice, plus this how-to-solve guide and a worked solution. It is independent of LinkedIn and not affiliated with it. For the exact official daily puzzle, play on LinkedIn; to learn the method or practise without limits, you are in the right place.

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