Puzzle Answers Today

What 'puzzle answers today' means on this site

"Today" is defined by each game's own clock, which is not the same clock. LinkedIn's eight games reset together at midnight Pacific. Connections and Strands change at midnight Eastern; Wordle at midnight in your local zone (HintSheet uses the Eastern date); Spelling Bee at 3 AM Eastern. Pokedle resets at 6 AM UTC; the other Dle games at midnight UTC. Every answer page states its game's reset time, and the homepage shows the newest published puzzle for each game — so at 1 AM Eastern the NYT cards have rolled over while the LinkedIn cards still show yesterday's, correctly.

Every page carries the puzzle's number as well as its date. People search both ways ("Connections 1179", "Wordle September 2"), and both are right.

Hints first, by design

Most people who search for a puzzle answer don't want the whole answer. They want to be unstuck. So the games with a hint culture — Connections, Wordle, Strands — have a separate hints page where each clue sits behind its own reveal, ordered from least to most revealing: a nudge, then a category name, then the words; a vowel count, then a first letter, then the word. You stop where you like. The answer page, by contrast, shows everything at once with nothing to click, for people who are done.

LinkedIn's games and the Dle games don't have the same hint tradition — their answer is a board or a name — so their pages show the solution directly with a walkthrough of the reasoning underneath, which is the useful part if you want to get better.

The three families, and how they differ

LinkedIn Games are logic and word puzzles designed to be finished in a few minutes inside a professional network — timed, streak-tracked, and compared against your connections. Queens and Tango are pure deduction; Zip is a path puzzle; Pinpoint and Crossclimb are word games; Mini Sudoku, Patches and Wend round out the set. They reset at midnight Pacific and require a LinkedIn login to play, which is one reason answer pages exist: to check a solution without opening the app.

NYT Games are the daily word puzzles that made the format: Wordle (five letters, six guesses), Connections (sixteen words, four groups), Strands (a themed letter grid) and Spelling Bee (seven letters, every word you can make). They are edited by named people at the Times, they have official hint columns, and their answers are the most-searched puzzle queries on the internet by a wide margin.

Dle games are the fan-made attribute-guessing games that spun out of Wordle — Pokedle for Pokémon, LoLdle for League of Legends, and the rest. Guess a character; the game tells you which attributes match. Most have several modes and, unusually, two regional puzzles a day.

How the answers are produced

Each game is read at its reset — the puzzle data the game itself serves — and the answer page is generated from that data, not transcribed from a screenshot. That is why a Queens answer here is a drawn board with crowns rather than a list of coordinates, and why a Wordle answer comes with a letter breakdown. For games where the data is a word list computed rather than published (Spelling Bee), the page says so and states the caveat.

Every published answer is cross-checked against a second source before it goes live. When a game corrects a puzzle mid-day — LinkedIn does this a few times a year — the page is updated and the change is dated. If you ever see a mismatch, the contact page reaches the editor directly.

Solvers, for when the answer isn't the point

Some days you don't want today's answer; you want help with a board of your own — a Wordle pattern that won't resolve, a Queens board you've painted in from a friend's screenshot, a Spelling Bee hive from three days ago. The solvers do that: a Wordle solver that ranks your next guess, a Spelling Bee solver for any hive, Queens, Tango and Zip solvers that take the board you enter, and a Connections helper that points at letter patterns without grouping the words for you. All of them run in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

Getting better at daily puzzles, generally

Across all eighteen games, three habits account for most of the difference between a two-minute solve and a ten-minute one.

Look before you touch. Every timed game starts its clock on the first tap. Fifteen seconds of reading the board — the edges in Zip, the smallest regions in Queens, the signs in Tango, all sixteen words in Connections — is the highest-value time you'll spend.

Commit to what's certain, then let elimination work. Logic puzzles are designed so that each certain placement creates the next. Guessing early makes the board harder, not easier.

Read the wordplay games as letters, not meanings. Connections' purple group, Pinpoint's hidden-word categories, Strands' punning themes and Wend's fixed word lengths all reward looking at spelling when meaning runs out.

Why there's no playable game here

Plenty of answer sites bolt on "unlimited" clones of the games they cover. HintSheet doesn't, on purpose. The games belong to LinkedIn, the Times and the fan developers who make the Dle family; copying their boards and artwork isn't something a site that wants to be around next year should do. Every guide links to the real game. What you get here is the answer, the reasoning, and tools for your own boards.

The archive

Every answer ever published stays. Each game has an archive browsable by month and, for numbered games, by puzzle number, so "what was Pinpoint #800" or "Strands from last Tuesday" are one click away. The Times and LinkedIn don't offer free archives of their own; this one is complete from the day HintSheet started publishing.

A note on speed and accuracy

Answer sites compete on being first, and the temptation is to publish the instant a puzzle changes. HintSheet publishes within minutes of each reset *after* a cross-check against a second source, which costs a little speed and prevents the wrong-answer mornings that plague faster sites. The Times games are read from the puzzle data itself and are exact. LinkedIn games are read from the game as it goes live. The Dle games are read from each game's own daily data. Where a game corrects its puzzle after release, the page is updated and dated.

Reading this site on a phone

Most visits are from phones, mid-game. The pages are built for that: the answer or the first hint is above the fold, the boards are drawn as vector graphics that stay sharp at any size, and the reveal buttons are large enough to tap without opening the next one by mistake. Share buttons are plain links — no third-party scripts load until you tap one — and the solvers run in the browser with nothing uploaded.

Reader questions

"Which page should I bookmark?" This one — it shows every game's newest puzzle — or the hub for the family you play.

"Do you cover the NYT crossword or the Mini?" Not at present.

"Can I request a game?" Yes, through the contact page; games are added when there's demand and a reliable way to read them.

Every game we cover

• Pinpoint: pinpoint answer today
• Crossclimb: crossclimb today
• Queens: queens answer today · queens solver
• Tango: tango answer today · tango solver
• Zip: linkedin zip answer today · zip solver
• Mini Sudoku: mini sudoku answer today
• Patches: patches answer today
• Wend: wend answer today
• Connections: connections answers today · connections hint today · connections helper
• Wordle: wordle answer today · wordle hint today · wordle solver
• Strands: strands answer today · strands hint today
• Spelling Bee: spelling bee answers today · spelling bee solver
• Pokedle: pokedle answers today
• LoLdle: loldle answers today
• Smashdle: smashdle answers today
• Narutodle: narutodle answers today
• OnePiecedle: onepiecedle answers today
• Dotadle: dotadle answers today

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