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Why are you going to LinkedIn? If you asked someone’s question until a few months ago, the answer would be to see job updates, professional networks or publish your own achievements. However, recently, LinkedIn has an entire community that comes to the site or the application at a given time to relax with five fast and engaging games.
If you are one of them, continue to read to find out interesting facts on games. Otherwise, you have to read the full article to find out what you might miss, or if you should also skip the train.
What are LinkedIn Games?
There are five, including two brain teasers based on words and three logics and focused on reasoning. If Queens and Tango test your logic and your reasoning skills as a game of su-do-ku, pinpoint and crossclimb that arouse reflection can send you in search of a dictionary for the ACE. Then there is Zip, a labyrinth game that asks you to trace your path to the goal counter each time you go back after being away in a bad territory.
The 5 games are timed, some of them help you with advice, and each successful end rewards you with a compliment “you crush it” and congratulate you if you do better than a number of CEOs on the platform. It tells you your score and the average time you have taken to solve the game.
You can play each game once a day, and also see which other connections played the game that day and check your performance on the rankings.
The bait for players returning to LinkedIn every day is the fear of losing the sequence of victories. And if you have been professional, you are allowed to lose a game or two from time to time and to keep your sequence.
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How to play Queens, Crossclimb, Tango, Pinpoint, Zip on Linkedin
Queens
It will remind you of Sudoku, but there are no figures. You must fill the grid in a way that each line, column and colored region contains exactly a queen represented by a symbol of the crown.
Identify
It is an association game game where you guess the theme or the common category connecting a set of words. There are five clues to help you determine the link.
Crossing
This one is a game of Trivia at a quick rhythm where you build a scale of words to win. Resolve each clue to find the correct words and organize in sequence, ensuring that each word differs from a single letter from the next. Unlock the upper and lower words by breaking their special clues!
Tango
This game is a daily logical puzzle where you fill a 6 × 6 grid with sun and moon symbols. Each line and column must contain an equal number of suns and moons, while ensuring that two identical symbols do not appear side by side, horizontally or vertically. Some cells add additional constraints: an equal sign (=) means that the two symbols must be the same, while one X indicates that they must be different.
Zipper
In this game, the players connect the numbered circles on a grid in the growing order to create a continuous path. You must trace a lowest line to the highest number, passing through each cell of the grid without leaving a single vacuum.
Where to find LinkedIn Games?
It seems that LinkedIn has never made an advertising series for the Games, apart from publishing some publications announcing the launch, and rather let the users discover them by themselves. They are literally hidden at sight, making sure not to come on the path of your more serious navigation or to distract you from any serious business on the professional networking site.
To find these games, you can just go to the LinkedIn games center. Your “My Network” tab can also help you locate games, or you can simply search for today’s game section on the home page.
In addition, if you have played the games once, you will find them in your notifications or by sliding directly to the mobile application.
You could also come across them in your flow if a player of your contacts shared his score.
If you can’t find them anywhere, just type “games” in the LinkedIn search bar or search for “Linkedin games” on Google Search.
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5 facts on LinkedIn Games
- Linkedin entered the play arena in May 2024, launching three of the five games in its mobile application and office. Crossclimb, Queens and Pinpoint were the first three games.
- When the games are launched, LinkedIn had planned an annual growth rate of 8.61% for them.
- The inspiration for LinkedIn to launch these games would have been the popularity of word games like Wordle, which the New York Times bought for a huge sum in 2022.
- The brain behind LinkedIn Games is Lakshman Somasundaram, who heads the LinkedIn Games Division.
- According to a recent Wired report, 84% of players come back the next day, and nearly 830,000 people subscribed to the LinkedIn Daily Games bulletin.
Why LinkedIn Games?
Announcing the launch of games, Daniel Roth, editor-in-chief, vice-president of content development at Linkedin, said: “We want to give people a way to exercise their brain while taking a quick break, but also give people a reason to connect with others.”
A year later, Somasundaram answered the question “why LinkedIn” while speaking to Wired: “I like to think about it because we play a lot about our own game. We want Linkedin to feel like the best workplace in the world. We must find a way to bring this fun element to our platform. ”
Although the jury is always on the question of whether the games have turned out to be a “reason to connect”, what regular players guarantee is that they are simple, addictive and do not take much time.
“What started as an occasional tapping is now my little morning ritual. These 5 to 10 minutes? Pure Bliss,” published one user, while another said: “Linkedin games in my opinion are a well-executed addition to the platform, both as an intellectual stimulation tool and as a strategic movement to motivate daily engagement.”
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