When LinkedIn games reset

LinkedIn Pinpoint, Crossclimb and Queens all change puzzle at the same moment: midnight Pacific Time. This page converts that moment to other time zones, explains what happens to yesterday’s puzzle, and says when the puzzles on this site update.

The short answer

LinkedIn’s Help Center says new puzzles are released daily at midnight Pacific Time (PT). The page for each of the three games adds that previous puzzles expire at this time and are no longer playable. There is one puzzle per game per day, and all three switch together.

Midnight Pacific Time in your time zone

Pacific Time is UTC-8 in winter (PST) and UTC-7 in summer (PDT). The US moves its clocks forward on the second Sunday of March and back on the first Sunday of November. In 2026 that was March 8 and November 1, so since November 1 Pacific Time has been on winter time.

Place	Winter (PST)	Summer (PDT)
Pacific (Los Angeles)	12:00 a.m.	12:00 a.m.
Mountain (Denver)	1:00 a.m.	1:00 a.m.
Central (Chicago)	2:00 a.m.	2:00 a.m.
Eastern (New York)	3:00 a.m.	3:00 a.m.
UTC	08:00	07:00
London	08:00	08:00
Paris, Berlin	09:00	09:00
India	13:30	12:30
Tokyo	17:00	16:00

The four US zones in the table keep the same offset all year because they all change clocks on the same dates. Arizona and Hawaii do not change clocks, so for them the reset moves by an hour. London and Paris also come out the same in both columns, because Europe changes its clocks too. The exception is the weeks when the US and Europe are on different clocks. In 2026, midnight Pacific fell one hour earlier in London (07:00) and Paris (08:00) from March 9 to March 28, and from October 25 to November 1. India and Tokyo do not change clocks at all, so for them the reset moves by one hour when Pacific Time changes.

The clocks change at 2 a.m., so the reset itself is never skipped or doubled.

Which date is on the puzzle?

The date on each puzzle here is the Pacific date. The Nov 6 puzzle opened at 12:00 a.m. PST on Nov 6, which was 17:00 on Nov 6 in Tokyo and 08:00 on Nov 6 in London. If you are east of the US, the puzzle for a date therefore opens later on that same calendar day for you. In the four US zones in the table, it opens in the early hours of that same date. In both cases it is the Pacific midnight that counts, not yours.

When the puzzles on this site update

We fetch the new puzzles after the reset. The fetch job is set to run at 07:05 and 08:05 UTC. One of those is five minutes after Pacific midnight: 07:05 UTC in summer, 08:05 UTC in winter. The other run finds the puzzle it fetches already saved and skips. In winter it comes an hour before the reset and sees yesterday’s puzzle. In summer it comes an hour after, and would pick up a puzzle the first run missed.

If the request to LinkedIn fails, the job tries again twice, 5.5 minutes apart. Once a puzzle is saved, the pages pick it up within about a minute. Pinpoint and Crossclimb also need their hint text written first, so they can take longer than Queens. Usually the new puzzle is up about five minutes after midnight PT. If LinkedIn is slow to respond, allow up to about 20 minutes. If you still see yesterday’s puzzle then, reload.

One rule for all three games

Pinpoint is the word game with five clues and one hidden category. Crossclimb is a word ladder. Queens is the colored grid with one queen per row, column and region. LinkedIn’s Help Center gives each of them the same release time, so there is no separate schedule to remember. You can set a reminder on the results page, after you finish a game, to be notified when the next puzzle is available.

What is today’s Pinpoint?

The top of the home page is today’s Pinpoint, with its number, the five clues, a hint and the answer behind a separate tap. Crossclimb and Queens have their own pages, each with a hint first and the answer behind a tap.

Puzzle numbers go up by one every day. On this site, #909 was the Oct 26, 2026 puzzle and #920 was Nov 6. Pinpoint, Crossclimb and Queens carry the same number on the same day.

Missed a day?

Yesterday’s puzzle can no longer be played on LinkedIn, but you can still read how it works out. Past Pinpoint answers are in the Pinpoint archive, for example Pinpoint #920, past ladders are in the Crossclimb archive and past boards are in the Queens archive. You can’t play the games on this site, which is not affiliated with LinkedIn. We only show hints and answers.

What a missed day does to your streak is a separate question, and LinkedIn’s streaks page answers it.

What a missed day does to your streak

The streak counts the consecutive days you have won a game. To keep it, you must play and win before the puzzle expires at midnight Pacific Time, which is the same moment as the reset in the table above. So a streak does not end at your local midnight. It ends at the Pacific one.

If you miss a day, you lose the streak unless you have a streak freeze. A freeze holds the streak in place for one day but does not add to the count. The page gives the rules:

• You earn a freeze after winning 5 games in a row.
• You can hold at most two freezes per game at a time.
• Freezes do not expire, and they are applied automatically if you miss a day. You see a message when one is used.
• To earn another, you need to win 5 games in a row again.

The page’s example: you are on a 20-day streak with two freezes, you miss day 21, one freeze is used and the streak stays at 20.

Getting a long streak back

If you lost a streak of 31 days or more, LinkedIn sends an in-app notification offering to restore it. You must complete a game within 48 hours of receiving the notification to begin. If you don’t, the restoration expires and cannot be retried. A streak of 30 days or fewer cannot be restored.

To restore, you play a set number of days in a row, and the number depends on the streak you lost:

Lost streak	Days to play in a row
31–49 days	3
50–99 days	5
100 days or more	7

Once you start, you must play every day until you finish the required days. If you miss one, you lose the chance and can’t try again. In the page’s example, a 50-day streak is lost, you complete a game within 48 hours and then play 5 days in a row, and the streak is restored at 55 days.

Reminders for the reset

The streaks page suggests turning on notifications: on the streak card, switch on “Keep your streak” to get a reminder when the next game is available. On the results page after a game, you can also set a reminder for the next puzzle. Games notifications are controlled under Settings & Privacy, then Notifications, then Games, where “Allow gameplay notifications” is the switch (Help Center).

If you play as a guest, without signing in, none of this applies. Guest mode keeps no streak, and your score is deleted after 30 minutes (Help Center). The wider picture, with every game and how they launched, is in the LinkedIn games guide. How the pages here are made and checked is on the method page.