The LinkedIn Games — how to play, and where to find the answers

The LinkedIn Games are a small suite of short daily puzzles — one fresh board a game, every day — that grew out of the same idea that made Wordle a phenomenon: a single puzzle, a couple of minutes, a clean result to compare with other people. What sets the set apart is its mix. Some of the games are pure deterministic logic, where the board can always be reasoned out to one answer with no guessing; the others lean on words and quick trivia instinct.

On the logic side sit Queens, a crown-placement grid; Zip, a single-line path puzzle; and Tango, a balance puzzle of two symbols. On the word-and-trivia side are Pinpoint, a category-guessing game, and Crossclimb, a word ladder. Between them they cover the two things people want from a daily puzzle: something to deduce, and something to know.

We describe these games by name here so you can find the one you are looking for — nothing more. duplixo builds its own daily versions of the same styles of puzzle, from original code, and pairs each with an answer and hint page for the day. That is the whole service: play the board free, and if you stall, take a nudge or the full solution without hunting around.

The pull of a daily puzzle is easy to underrate. It is free, it is over in a few minutes, and it asks for a small, self-contained piece of thinking — a change of pace from an endless feed. You do not scroll it; you finish it. That shape is why so many people search these games out by name every morning and make a short ritual of them.

Free and quick. A daily logic puzzle costs nothing and fits into a coffee break. There is no long session to commit to and no losing an hour by accident — you open the board, solve it, and get on with your day.

No feed to scroll. Part of the appeal is that a puzzle is a clean, closed task. It is the opposite of an infinite timeline: one board, one solution, one small win.

Deduction you can share. Because everyone gets the same board, comparing how you did is half the fun. A tidy, spoiler-free result travels well in a group chat.

That is also why an answer, hint and how-to library matters so much. People search for “linkedin games answers” and “how to play” for two honest reasons: they are stuck on today’s board and want a nudge rather than a spoiler, or they are new to a game and want the rules explained plainly before they start. A good library serves both — graduated hints first, the full answer only if you ask for it, and a clear how-to-play guide for anyone learning the ropes.

These three need no vocabulary at all — they are pure deduction, each with exactly one solution you can reason out from the rules.

Queens is a crown-placement puzzle on an 8×8 board split into eight coloured regions. You place exactly one crown in every row, every column and every colour region — eight in all — with one twist: no two crowns may touch, not even diagonally. A well-formed board never needs a guess; the smallest regions and the board edges are where the chain of logic usually starts. Play Queens free, learn the rules in the how-to-play guide, or check today’s answer and hints.

Zip is a path puzzle. You are given a grid dotted with numbers and asked to draw one continuous line that passes through every cell exactly once while reaching the numbers in ascending order. It is wordless and quietly addictive — one board, one route, a clean share — and it rewards a repeatable way of opening the grid. Play Zip free, read the how-to-play guide, or, if you stall, see today’s answer and hints.

Tango fills a 6×6 grid with two symbols — suns and moons — so that every row and column holds three of each, never three alike in a row, honouring the equals and cross clues placed between some cells. If you have played a balance-logic puzzle it will feel instantly familiar; if you are new to deduction games, it is a gentle, rules-light way in. Play Tango free, learn it in the how-to-play guide, or reveal today’s answer and hints.

These two trade grids for knowledge and instinct — a change of pace for when you want the daily habit without a board to fill in.

Pinpoint is a category game. It reveals five clue words one at a time, from vaguest to most obvious, all secretly sharing a single hidden category. Your job is to name that category in as few clues as you can, so the reward is guessing early on less information. It is the quickest game in the set and the most fun to compare. Play Pinpoint free, read the how-to-play guide, or check today’s answer and hints.

Crossclimb is a word ladder. You solve a stack of clued rungs and arrange them so each word changes by exactly one letter from the one below it, then name the two mystery words that cap the top and bottom of the ladder. It shares the short-word comfort of a Wordle but adds a laddering twist that feels closer to a crossword. Play Crossclimb free, learn it in the how-to-play guide, or reveal today’s answer and hints.

If you search for a game’s answer, you almost never want the solution dumped on you the moment the page loads. So every answer page on duplixo is built to be read from the top down, revealing only as much as you ask for. It opens with a short, spoiler-safe summary of the day’s board, then a ladder of five graduated hints — each one hidden behind a tap, moving from a gentle first nudge to a near-complete steer — so you can unstick yourself and keep the satisfaction of finishing the last move.

Only past the hints does the full solution sit behind a clear reveal: the solved Queens grid, the complete Zip route, the finished Tango board, the Pinpoint category or the whole Crossclimb ladder, with the top and bottom words filled in. Below that you will find the day’s solve statistics, a short editor’s read of what made the board tricky, and an 8-day archive if you want to look back. A matching how-to-play guide for each game explains the rules from scratch, which is the other half of what people mean when they search “how to play” a LinkedIn game.