LinkedIn now has eight daily puzzles, and Wend is the newest

Eight puzzles, one a day

LinkedIn's Games tab now runs eight daily puzzles: Pinpoint, Crossclimb, Queens, Tango, Zip, Mini Sudoku, Patches and Wend. Everyone gets the same puzzle each day, one of each, with results you can share to your feed and streaks your connections can see.

LinkedIn launched Games in May 2024 with a handful of titles and has kept adding to the set since. The puzzles reset at midnight Pacific time, and most take a few minutes to finish. They are free, with no premium subscription required, and a guest mode lets you try them without logging in.

What each game asks of you

The logic games anchor the set. Queens asks you to place one queen in every row, column and coloured region, with no two touching, not even diagonally. Tango fills a grid with suns and moons so each row and column holds an equal number, with no more than two of the same symbol in a row, and equals or cross clues between some cells. Zip hands you numbered waypoints and asks for one unbroken path that visits every cell in order.

Mini Sudoku is a 6x6 grid you fill so every row, column and region holds the numbers 1 to 6. Patches, one of the newer titles, is a spatial puzzle where you fill the grid with valid shapes, squares and rectangles, some marked with the exact size they must be.

The word games round it out. Pinpoint gives you five clues and asks for the category that links them, ideally after as few reveals as possible. Crossclimb pairs clue solving with a word ladder, where you reorder the answers so each neighbour differs by a single letter. Wend, the newest addition, is a word hunt: you weave paths through a grid of letter tiles to find four to seven hidden words, using every tile once and routing around blocked spaces.

How big it has got

The numbers explain why LinkedIn keeps shipping puzzles. By May 2026 more than 3.5 million people were playing at least one LinkedIn game every day, up from about two million at the start of the year, according to figures compiled by ConnectSafely. That makes Games one of the platform's fastest-growing features.

The puzzle counters hint at the timeline. On 28 September 2026, Pinpoint, Crossclimb and Queens had all reached puzzle number 881, while Wend was only on 112, a marker of how recently it joined the lineup.

Where it is heading

LinkedIn's pitch is social rather than solitary: shared results, visible streaks and leaderboards that quietly put your profile in front of colleagues. It is also a direct challenge to the New York Times, which spent 2026 expanding its own puzzle catalog.

New games have arrived roughly every few months, so the current set of eight is unlikely to be the last word. If the growth holds, expect LinkedIn to keep the release cadence going.