LinkedIn Games Reset Time: Daily Schedule by Time Zone

Why every LinkedIn player sees the same puzzle

LinkedIn's games — Queens, Tango, Zip, Mini Sudoku, Patches, Pinpoint, Crossclimb, and Wend — all work on a shared, global daily puzzle. Every player around the world gets the exact same grid, the same clues, and the same category on a given day, and a new set replaces the old one at a single fixed moment rather than at midnight in each player's own local time. That single global reset is what makes it possible to compare your result with a friend on the other side of the world and know you're both talking about the same puzzle.

The baseline: reset happens at midnight Pacific

The reset is anchored to midnight Pacific Time, which is LinkedIn's home base. Once that clock strikes midnight in the Pacific zone, the previous day's puzzles lock and a fresh set becomes available everywhere at once. For anyone living in or near the Pacific zone, that's simple: your puzzles refresh right at midnight, same as the date changing on your phone.

Converting to your time zone

For everywhere else, you're translating midnight Pacific into your own clock. Using the offsets that hold for most of the year:

• US Eastern Time: 3:00 AM, since Eastern sits three hours ahead of Pacific year-round — both zones observe daylight saving on the same schedule, so this one never shifts.
• UK: 8:00 AM.
• Central Europe (Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and most of the EU): 9:00 AM.
• India: 12:30 PM while the US is on daylight saving time (mid-March to early November), and 1:30 PM the rest of the year — India never changes its clocks, so it follows the US switch.
• Sydney, Australia: 5:00 PM from April to early October, 7:00 PM from early November to mid-March, and 6:00 PM in the short stretches in between, because the US and Australia change their clocks in opposite seasons.

If you're not in one of these zones, the easiest approach is to find your offset from Pacific Time using any world clock and add it to midnight.

Why the European time shifts in March and late October/November

The Eastern Time conversion above never changes, because Eastern and Pacific are both in the United States and switch to and from daylight saving on the same two Sundays each year. The UK and Central Europe don't share that calendar with the US, though — their clocks change on different dates. In most years, the United States shifts to daylight saving a couple of weeks before the UK and the rest of Europe do in the spring, and Europe shifts back to standard time about a week before the US does in the fall. During those short windows — a stretch in March, and another in late October into early November — the usual 8:00 AM UK and 9:00 AM Central Europe reset times can each land an hour earlier than usual, before settling back to the familiar times once both regions' clocks are aligned again for the season. If your reset time looks off by an hour in March or around the end of October, that mismatch window is almost always the reason, and it corrects itself within a couple of weeks.

Streak tips

Losing a streak over a timing mix-up is an avoidable kind of frustrating, so a few habits help:

1. Set a personal reminder a little after your local reset time, not right at midnight your own time — the puzzle won't be new yet if your zone doesn't line up with Pacific.
2. Don't rely on "midnight" as a mental shortcut unless you're actually in or near the Pacific zone — it's the single most common reason players think a puzzle hasn't updated when it actually has.
3. Play earlier in your day if your schedule is unpredictable. Once the puzzle resets for your zone, it stays the same puzzle until the next reset, so there's no advantage to waiting until later — playing right after your personal reset time is the safest way to protect a streak.
4. Double-check the date shown in the game itself if something looks familiar — that confirms you're looking at a genuinely new puzzle rather than a cached version of yesterday's.

Finding all eight games in the app

All eight games live in one place. On a computer, go to linkedin.com/games; in the mobile app, search for a game's name (for example "Queens") to jump straight to it. If a puzzle still looks like yesterday's, check whether your local reset time has actually passed — a game that seems stuck is usually just one that hasn't rolled over yet in your zone.

Keep practicing

Once you know your personal reset time, it's easy to build a daily habit around it. Check today's LinkedIn games answers for the full lineup, or jump straight to Queens, Tango, Zip, Mini Sudoku, Patches, Pinpoint, Crossclimb, or Wend.