LinkedIn Games Solvers & Help — Queens, Tango, Zip

The LinkedIn Games Lineup

LinkedIn added daily games to its feed in 2024, and they quickly became a fixture of millions of morning routines. The lineup centers on quick, logic-first puzzles: Queens, a region-based crown-placement puzzle solved by pure elimination; Tango, a sun-and-moon binary puzzle built on balance and no-three-in-a-row rules; Zip, a draw-one-path puzzle where the line must cover every cell while hitting numbered checkpoints in order; Pinpoint, a word game where five clues share a hidden category; Crossclimb, a trivia-flavored word ladder; and a compact Mini Sudoku. Each publishes exactly one puzzle per day, everyone in the world gets the same board, and your solve time is compared against your connections — which is precisely why the games are so sticky, and why being slow at them stings a little.

All three of the logic games share a satisfying property: every board has exactly one solution, reachable without guessing. That means there is always a chain of clean deductions from the starting position to the finished grid — you never have to “try something and see.” Finding that chain is the whole game.

What a Solver Is Actually Good For

A solver that just hands you the answer teaches you nothing — which is why each of these tools is built to show its work. The Queens solver has a hint mode that reveals one deduction at a time with the relevant cells highlighted, so you see whya region confined to one row wipes out the rest of that row. The Tango solver verifies that your board has a unique solution, which instantly tells you whether you copied the givens correctly. The Zip solver’s explainer breaks down the corner, funnel, and parity arguments that let you rule out whole families of paths at a glance. Use them the way you’d use a chess engine: get unstuck, then study the move you missed.

And when you want raw repetitions, skip the daily limit entirely. The practice games above are free and unlimited — ten Star Battle boards will do more for your Queens time than any answer key ever could.

A Note on Fair Play

These solvers operate only on boards you enter by hand. They don’t connect to LinkedIn, don’t scrape daily puzzles, and don’t publish answer keys. If you’re racing friends on solve time, solve honestly — then come back here to learn the technique you were missing.