LinkedIn Games Answers for Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026: Queens, Tango, Zip, Pinpoint and Crossclimb Hints

LinkedIn’s puzzles for Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026, include Pinpoint #912, Crossclimb #912, Queens #912 and Tango #752, and hints for the word games come first below. They went live at midnight Pacific Time (PT), which is 3 a.m. Eastern Time (ET). Answers sit in a spoiler section at the end, and we post one only when two independent published solutions agree on it.

Thursday’s hints, Oct. 29, 2026

• Pinpoint #912: the category is a word that comes before another word. That second word is a noun for a small, flowing body of water.
• Crossclimb #912: seven four-letter words. The top and bottom words are both things you do with a computer file, one to store it and one to retrieve it.
• Crossclimb #912, middle of the ladder: one clue points to a small coastal inlet with a narrow entrance, and another to the center of an apple.

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 Thursday: Wordle hint and answer and Connections hints and answers. Monday’s page is still up: Monday’s LinkedIn games answers. Keep your streaks on our printable weekly calendar or the October 2026 calendar.

Thursday’s LinkedIn answers, Oct. 29, 2026 (spoilers)

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

• Pinpoint #912: Words that come before stream.
• Crossclimb #912: Save, Cave, Cove, Core, Cord, Lord, Load. Save is the top word and Load the bottom; each step changes one letter.

The Crossclimb middle clues match the ladder: cave is an underground space you can explore, cove a small coastal inlet with a narrow entrance, core the center of an apple, cord a flexible cable for charging electronics and lord someone who rules over a domain. Save and Load are the two end words, both computer-file verbs.

Queens #912, Tango #752, Zip, Mini Sudoku, Patches and Wend solutions are not printed: no text answer was confirmed by two sources, and the published solutions are grid images we could not cross-check.