LinkedIn Games Answers for Monday, Oct. 26, 2026: Queens, Tango, Zip, Pinpoint and Crossclimb Hints

Monday's LinkedIn puzzles are not live yet. They go live at midnight Pacific Time, 3 a.m. Eastern. Hints and answers for Oct. 26 go here after that. Sunday's confirmed answers are below.

LinkedIn’s puzzles for Monday, Oct. 26, 2026, go live at midnight Pacific Time (PT), which is 3 a.m. Eastern Time (ET), and we add hints and answers for each game here once they are out. LinkedIn now has eight daily games, from the Queens logic grid to the Pinpoint word game. Sunday’s Pinpoint #908 category was things with roots, and the Crossclimb ladder ran from Date to Palm. We post an answer only when two independent published solutions agree on it.

LinkedIn’s eight daily games

Descriptions follow LinkedIn’s Help Center. Anyone can play, with or without a LinkedIn account, and there are no prizes; a streak counts your daily wins.

Game	What you do
Queens	Place one queen in every row, column and colored region
Tango	Fill a grid with two symbols so each row and column holds an equal number of each
Zip	Draw one path that visits the numbers in order and fills every cell
Mini Sudoku	Fill a small grid so each row, column and shaded region has every number once
Pinpoint	Guess the category that links a set of words, with up to five clues
Crossclimb	Order a word ladder where each word changes one letter, then solve the top and bottom
Patches	Complete every shape in the grid from a set of clues
Wend	Connect letters to find the hidden words, using every letter once

Tips for the logic grids

Queens. Start with the smallest colored region. If a region sits entirely inside one row or column, no other region can place its queen in that line, so cross that line off for everyone else.

Tango. In LinkedIn’s Tango, no more than two identical symbols sit next to each other in a row or column. Look for two in a row and mark the cells on both ends with the other symbol, then count: a line that already holds half of one symbol takes the other in every empty cell.

Zip. Work from both ends: the path must start at 1 and end at the highest number, and dead-end corners force the path’s shape.

More puzzles for Monday: Spelling Bee hints, Connections: Sports Edition hints and Pips hints. Sunday’s page is still up: Sunday’s LinkedIn games answers. Keep your streaks on our printable weekly calendar or the October 2026 calendar.

Sunday’s LinkedIn answers, Oct. 25, 2026 (spoilers)

Stop here if you are still playing Sunday’s games.

• Pinpoint #908: Things with roots. The clues were Teeth, Words, Polynomial functions, Family history and Trees.
• Crossclimb #908: Date, Rate, Rake, Sake, Sale, Pale, Palm. Date is the top word and Palm the bottom; each step changes one letter.
• Queens #908: one queen per row, listed by row and column: row 1, column 3; row 2, column 8; row 3, column 1; row 4, column 5; row 5, column 2; row 6, column 7; row 7, column 4; row 8, column 9; row 9, column 6.

Mini Sudoku #440, row by row:

Row	Digits
1	5 1 6 3 2 4
2	4 2 3 6 5 1
3	1 3 4 2 6 5
4	2 6 5 4 1 3
5	3 5 2 1 4 6
6	6 4 1 5 3 2

We checked that every row, column and two-by-three box of the Sudoku holds 1 to 6 once, and that no two queens share a column or touch. Tango #748, Zip #587 and Patches #222 appeared only as images, so they are not printed.