Getting into the gaming business is a strategy digital content
platforms tend to adopt for two reasons: one, as a way of keeping old users
engaged with the platform and attracting new users; and two, for increasing
revenue. LinkedIn has recently become one of these platforms too, with the launch
of its own puzzle games.
The games are: ‘Pinpoint,’ ‘Crossclimb,’ and ‘Queens,’ and
they are all available on LinkedIn on desktop as well as mobile. Each of these
games can be played once in a day. They also show metrics like high score, daily
streak, leaderboards, and people you know that have played them.
Pinpoint is a word-association game. Players are shown five
different words that they need to guess the category for in as few words as
possible. Crossclimb is a wordplay game where players are given a clue for a
word that acts as a starting point, and then following the word they are
required to create a ladder of words. Each subsequent word begins with the last
letter of the previous word.
Lastly, Queens is the most difficult one out of all of them.
It can be described as a version of Sudoku where numbers are replaced with
letters. The aim of the game is to place queens on a grid in a way that no
queens touch each other and there is a single queen in each row and column.
