LinkedIn Puzzles Are Boomer Catnip

LinkedIn Puzzles Are Boomer Catnip

LinkedIn Puzzles Are Boomer Catnip

MAY 22, 2026

Celsius Arctic Vibe. Phone. LinkedIn. Three puzzles before I open a single email. It's boomer catnip. Zip, Patches, Queens — my mains, in that order. The streak is the dopamine.

Who are we even competing with?

Honestly, no idea. Half the names on my leaderboard I've never met. The other half might be running one of the 128+ GitHub repos that solve the puzzle for you. Are we playing for honor? For pixels? I genuinely can't tell. I try not to read into the aura farming. Two-minute diversion before the day starts. That's the whole point. So I cloned them. Each one rolls a fresh puzzle every time. Replay until the can's empty. A 20B-parameter open model wrote these in about ten minutes. Playable, not polished — quick versions. That's the point. Software is about to be on-demand. No reason to buy MS Word when you can spin it up from raw code in fifteen seconds, for nothing.

Zip

Patches

Queens

Brain warmup, then back to building.