LinkedIn Games alternatives: daily puzzles with no account
The same daily habit as Queens, Tango and Pinpoint, without needing a LinkedIn profile to play.
LinkedIn Games works, and it works for a reason that has very little to do with the puzzles themselves. There are eight of them now - Pinpoint, Crossclimb, Queens, Tango, Zip, Mini Sudoku, Patches and Wend - they take a few minutes each, they reset once a day, and when you finish one you are shown how your colleagues did. That last part is the hook. The puzzle is the excuse; the leaderboard full of people you actually work with is the reason you come back tomorrow.
The friction is that all of it lives inside LinkedIn. You need an account, you are playing inside a feed that is trying to sell you something, and a lot of people do not want their break to be logged next to their employment history. Plenty of people search for an alternative for exactly that reason: keep the daily rhythm, drop the profile.
So here is what this site has, honestly described. Board for Teams is not board games despite the name - it is a set of short browser games, seven of which are daily puzzles that reset at local midnight and keep a streak. No account exists anywhere on the site, and nothing you play is posted anywhere. Below the picks there are links to the other daily suites worth your time, including LinkedIn Games itself.
Seven dailies to replace the eight
Twine
Daily Connect the Dots Puzzle
The closest thing here to Queens. A grid seeded with pairs of coloured twine ends; you join each pair with a path and every square must end up filled. It is the same class of puzzle - one solution, reachable by pure deduction, no guessing needed - and the same satisfying click when the last square closes.
Kitty Twine
Daily Cat Connection Puzzle
Twine with cats instead of coloured ends. Mechanically identical, visually easier to scan, and the one to send to somebody who claims they do not like logic puzzles. A separate daily and a separate streak from Twine, so you can play both.
Twine Pics
Daily Picture Connection Puzzle
The third Twine variant, pairing pictures rather than colours or cats. Slightly harder because matching two small images takes a beat longer than matching two colours, which changes how you plan the route.
Hieroglyph
Daily Picture Puzzle
Five sentences written as pictures, decoded with ten tries between them. This is the word-and-lateral-thinking end of the set, so it sits closest to Pinpoint and Crossclimb: you are looking for the idea behind the clue rather than working a grid.
Blink Shift
Daily Spot the Difference Game
Memorise a grid, it blinks, find what changed. Ten rounds, each harder than the last. Nothing on LinkedIn tests visual memory like this, so it is the one that adds something to the routine rather than replacing something in it.
True Colors
Daily Color Quiz
A five-question colour-naming quiz. The shortest daily here - about a minute - and a good one to open with before a longer puzzle. A Quick mode gives you unlimited fresh sets when the daily is done.
Paint Mix
Daily Color Mixing Puzzle
Work out which pigments were mixed to make a target colour. It is the most unusual puzzle on the site, and the only one with a live multiplayer room, so the same game covers your daily and a race against the team later.
Other daily suites worth playing
If you want the LinkedIn set specifically, go and play it - it is free and it is good. These are the suites people actually move between.
LinkedIn Games
Free with a LinkedIn account
The thing you searched for. Eight well-made dailies and, uniquely, a leaderboard of your own colleagues - which nothing on this page can currently match. If the coworker ranking is what you like about it, stay.
Queens (LinkedIn)
Free with a LinkedIn account
The single most popular game of the eight: place one crown per row, column and colour region. Worth calling out separately because most people searching for an alternative are really searching for another Queens.
The New York Times Games
Freemium
Wordle, Connections, Strands, the Mini and the full crossword. The best-produced daily set anywhere and the reason the category exists; only Wordle, Connections, Strands and the Mini are free, and the archive needs a subscription.
Puzzmo
Freemium
A daily suite with a genuinely distinctive house style and the best presentation in the category. The free tier gives you the day; the paid tier unlocks the archive and the harder variants.
Star Battle at puzzle-star-battle.com
Free, ad-supported
Queens is a one-star Star Battle, a puzzle type that predates it by decades. This site serves an unlimited supply in several sizes and difficulties, which is the answer if your actual complaint is that one Queens a day is not enough.
Mini Sudoku at sudoku.com
Free, ad-supported
If it was the Sudoku you came for, play it somewhere that does nothing else. Daily challenges, four difficulty levels, unlimited puzzles and a clean phone experience.
Keeping a streak without an account
The trade-off is worth stating plainly. LinkedIn keeps your streak on their servers, so it follows you to a new phone and a new browser. Streaks on this site are stored in your own browser against your local date - nothing is uploaded, there is no account to lose, but clearing your site data or switching device does reset them.
The practical fix is to install the site to your home screen and always play from there. It gives you one tap to the daily and keeps everything in one browser profile, which is the thing streaks actually depend on.
And pick three, not seven. The habit that survives is a small fixed set at a fixed time - the coffee, the commute, the ten minutes before standup.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need an account to play the daily puzzles here?
No. There is no signup anywhere on the site and no email is ever collected. A display name for multiplayer rooms is stored only in your own browser.
Is there a leaderboard against my coworkers?
Not yet, and that is the one genuine advantage LinkedIn Games has. Scores and streaks here are private to your browser. If ranking against colleagues is the whole point for you, LinkedIn is still the better answer today.
When do the puzzles reset?
At local midnight in your own timezone, so everyone in the same timezone gets the same puzzle on the same calendar day.
Is there anything like Queens here?
Twine, Kitty Twine and Twine Pics are the closest - single-solution grid puzzles solved by deduction rather than guessing. They are path-filling rather than crown-placing, so they are a relative, not a clone.