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How to Play LinkedIn Mini Sudoku

LinkedIn Mini Sudoku is a daily 6×6 sudoku puzzle: fill every row, every column and every 2×3 box with the digits 1 through 6, using each digit exactly once per unit. It is the classic game, made mini — designed in partnership with Thomas Snyder, a three-time World Sudoku Champion, so each daily board solves by pure logic in a minute or two.

You will find Mini Sudoku in the LinkedIn app's Games tab alongside Queens, Tango, Zip, Pinpoint and Crossclimb. Like the rest of the line-up, it resets at midnight Pacific Time, tracks your streak, and lets you compare times with your connections — which is exactly why so many players come looking for today's answer when a hard board threatens the streak.

How to Solve Mini Sudoku Faster

A 6×6 board is small enough that four core techniques cover almost every deduction. Master these and most of the daily boards fall in under two minutes — no notes required.

1. Naked singles first

Scan for cells whose row, column and box already contain five different digits. The remaining digit is forced. Easy boards can be finished with naked singles alone, and every board opens up with at least a couple of them.

2. Hidden singles inside each box

Pick a box and a digit it is missing, then ask: which cells of this box can legally take that digit? On a 6×6 grid a box has only six cells, so the answer is often exactly one. Champions call this the fastest scan in small sudoku, and it is the bread and butter of 6×6 solving.

3. Cross-hatch the bands

The 2×3 boxes line up in bands of two rows. If a digit already appears in one box of a band, it must land in the other box of that band on the remaining row. Following one digit across the whole grid this way — cross-hatching — pins placements you would otherwise miss.

4. Finish with naked pairs

When two cells in the same unit share the same two candidates, those digits are spoken for: no other cell in that unit may hold them. On hard Friday and Saturday boards, one naked pair is usually the single "aha" the setter hides — find it and the rest cascades.

One board-shape tip that trips up newcomers: the boxes are two rows tall and three columns wide. Players trained on 9×9 sudoku instinctively look for square boxes and misjudge which cells share a unit. Say it out loud on your first pass — "boxes are wide, not tall" — and a whole class of errors disappears.

Mini Sudoku vs Classic 9×9 Sudoku

The logic is identical — only the scale changes. A classic 9×9 grid has 81 cells, digits 1-9 and 3×3 boxes; LinkedIn's mini version has 36 cells, digits 1-6 and 2×3 boxes. That size cut does three things:

• Speed: an average round takes one to two minutes instead of ten, which is the whole point of a lunch-break puzzle with a leaderboard.
• Technique ceiling: advanced 9×9 tools like X-wings and swordfish almost never appear. Naked singles, hidden singles, cross-hatching and the occasional pair carry every board.
• Error cost: with only 36 cells, one wrong digit contaminates the board almost immediately — which is why checking against a verified Mini Sudoku answer beats brute-forcing when something feels off.

If you enjoy the 6×6 format, the difficulty curve across the week is worth knowing: Monday and Tuesday boards are gentle, midweek adds a hidden-single knot or two, and Friday and Saturday usually hide the pair-based deduction described above. Sunday sits in the middle.

Difficulty by Day — and the Mistakes That Cost Streaks

Like the rest of the LinkedIn line-up, the weekly rhythm is predictable once you notice it. Monday and Tuesday boards open with generous givens and fall to naked singles alone. Wednesday and Thursday hide one or two hidden-single knots that force a proper box scan. Friday and Saturday are the streak-killers: sparse givens, a deliberate naked pair, and at least one moment where the obvious-looking digit is wrong. Sunday resets to a comfortable middle.

Knowing the rhythm changes how you should play. Early in the week, race — the leaderboard among your connections is won on raw scanning speed. Late in the week, slow down for the first thirty seconds and map which boxes are emptiest; the constrained corner is where the setter hid the key deduction, and starting there beats starting top-left out of habit.

Three mistakes account for almost every broken streak on this game:

• Treating the boxes as squares. They are two rows by three columns. Mis-reading the box boundary produces a "legal-looking" digit that poisons everything downstream.
• Committing a coin-flip digit. If a cell genuinely seems 50/50, the information to decide it exists elsewhere on the board — an unscanned column or a forgotten box. Guessing on a 36-cell grid is never necessary and rarely survives.
• Ignoring the completed-row check. Every finished row is a free audit: six cells, digits 1-6, no repeats. Two seconds of checking catches the error while it is still one cell deep.

About Today's Answer — and Why You Can Trust It

Every day our automation collects the LinkedIn Mini Sudoku solution shortly after the puzzle resets, then verifies it mathematically before anything is published: each row, column and 2×3 box must be a perfect permutation of 1-6, and the puzzle number must match today's date. If the check fails, the page keeps yesterday's verified answer rather than showing something wrong — a guarantee image-based answer sites simply can't make.

Use the page the way it is laid out: the progressive hints reveal the grid shape, the opening cells and one full row before the spoiler, so you can take exactly as much help as your streak needs. The full Mini Sudoku answer grid at the top is there for the days the board wins.

More Daily Answers

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