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How to solve today’s LinkedIn Tango — July 28, 2026
duplixo publishes its own free daily Tango — 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 Tango
duplixo’s free daily Tango for July 28, 2026 is a 6×6 grid of suns and moons with 4 given cells and 7 sign clues. Balance every row and column three-and-three, keep three of a kind out of any line, and honour each = and ×. Five graduated hints sit below; the worked solution is revealed further down.
Need a nudge? Five graduated hints
Hint 1 Where to begin Reveal
You are given 4 filled cells. The one at row 3, column 1 is a Moon — build outward from the givens first.
Hint 2 An × clue Reveal
The × between row 5, column 2 and the cell to its right means those two cells hold different symbols — one Sun, one Moon.
Hint 3 An = clue Reveal
The = between row 2, column 6 and the cell below means those two cells hold the same symbol.
Hint 4 The no-three rule Reveal
Never let three of the same symbol sit in a line. Wherever two identical symbols already touch, the next cell in that line is forced to be the other symbol.
Hint 5 The top row Reveal
Reading left to right, the solved top row is Sun, Moon, Moon, Sun, Sun, Moon. The balance and sign rules cascade down from there.
A worked solution: our daily Tango, solved
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Today’s Tango solution — three suns and three moons in every row and column, never three alike in a line, every = and × clue honoured. Read left to right, row 1 is Sun, Moon, Moon, Sun, Sun, Moon.
How LinkedIn Tango works
Tango is a pure deduction puzzle on a 6×6 board. Every cell holds one of two symbols — a sun (a rayed disc) or a moon (a crescent), told apart by shape, never by colour. Your job is to fill the grid so three rules all hold at once.
First, every row and every column must contain exactly three suns and three moons. Second, no three identical symbols may sit next to each other in a row or column. Third, the small = and × signs printed on the borders are hard constraints: an equals joins two cells that must match, a cross joins two that must differ. A well-formed Tango has a single solution reachable by logic alone — no guessing.
Today’s board, by difficulty
| Indicator | Estimate |
|---|---|
| Estimated solve rate | 68% |
| Typical solve time | 3:12 |
| Likely to need a hint | 38% |
| Trickiest to crack | the sign chains |
| Difficulty vs a typical board | Easier · 69th pct |
How we build this. The Tango 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. duplixo is not affiliated with LinkedIn.
Reading today’s Tango
| Date | Puzzle | Result |
|---|---|---|
| July 28, 2026 | No. 658 | 68% solvedToday |
| July 27, 2026 | No. 657 | 74% solved |
| July 26, 2026 | No. 656 | 71% solved |
| July 25, 2026 | No. 655 | 76% solved |
| July 24, 2026 | No. 654 | 74% solved |
| July 23, 2026 | No. 653 | 78% solved |
| July 22, 2026 | No. 652 | 64% solved |
| July 21, 2026 | No. 651 | 56% solved |
Tango answer FAQ
Can a LinkedIn Tango puzzle have more than one solution?
No. Every daily Tango grid is built to have exactly one valid arrangement of suns and moons. Our generator runs the board through a constraint-and-backtracking solver before publishing to confirm the solution is unique, so the grid above is the only answer.
What do the = and × signs between cells mean?
A sign sits on the border shared by two adjacent cells. An equals sign means those two cells hold the same symbol — both suns or both moons. A cross means they must hold different symbols. The signs are a core part of the deduction, not decoration.
Why can there never be three suns or three moons in a row?
Tango forbids three identical symbols sitting next to each other in any row or column, and every line must end with exactly three suns and three moons. Together those rules keep each line balanced and break up long runs — which is what makes the grid solvable by pure logic.
Is this the official LinkedIn Tango board?
No. duplixo publishes its own free Tango 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.
Learned the method? Now beat the clock.
The board today leans on its signs: 4 × clues and 3 = clues chain the cells together, so a single placement often forces two or three more before you touch the balance rule at all.
The clean method is to exhaust the forced moves first — every × and = that touches a given cell — and only then count Suns and Moons per line to finish. Guessing rarely pays here; each clue is doing real work.