LinkedIn, for Some Reason, Now Offers Three Wordle-Style Puzzle Games
LinkedIn, once a simple social network for posting resumes and job listings and connecting with colleagues, then a blogging platform, and more recently an artificial intelligence service , is now following in the footsteps of The New York Times by launching three new daily puzzle games in Wordle style: which, no doubt, fervently hopes will keep you coming back to the site at least that often.
Pinpoint , Crossclimb and Queens launched today on the LinkedIn mobile app and website. Games are somewhat unintuitively listed under My Network on both mobile devices and desktop computers. (Either just click this link or type linkedin.com/games in your browser.)
Like Wordle, each game can be played once per day, with LinkedIn tracking your scores, streaks, and leaderboard positions. You can also compete with your network by sharing your results with people you know.
Pinpoint is a drawing of connections. The game will reveal new clues for every wrong guess, and your goal is to find the common thread in each clue in as few guesses as possible. If all the clues are revealed and you still can’t guess the answer, you lose.
Crossclimb is a mixture of crossword puzzles and quizzes. The game will first give brief definitions to a number of words. After you have guessed each word, your task is to rearrange them from top to bottom so that only one letter changes at a time. You will then be given a final hint to find the top and bottom words in the sequence. It’s a bit challenging for a “daily check” puzzle game, so it’s best to learn by playing.
Queens are similar to Sodoka , but with crowns instead of numbers. Your goal is to place a crown in every row, column, and color section without overlapping or having adjacent crowns. This may be the simplest puzzle, at least in terms of its rules, but for some reason LinkedIn saw fit to give it the longest tutorial of all.
Games may seem like an odd fit for LinkedIn, but as ad revenue disappears and other social media sites do everything they can to keep users on their platforms, game development is proving to be a great way to create sticky content and keep engagement levels high. . According to Axios , The New York Times received more than four billion views on Wordle alone last year, so you can hardly blame LinkedIn for reaching for a piece of that pie.