LinkedIn, a social network aimed at professionals, is becoming more casual.
The website has added a trio of games to its member offerings, which largely follow the Wordle model that has proven so successful for New York Times.
Pinpoint, Queens And Cross Climbing, each of the three games can be played once per day. Once you finish a game, you will be able to see your game history metrics, including high score and daily streak. You’ll also see who in your network has played.
The results may be posted to your LinkedIn feed, which is a bit of a risky move for a social network where posts tend to be related to news and thought leadership. The Microsoft-owned company hopes the results of the game will start a conversation and perhaps create more connections.
Each game takes about five minutes to complete. All three titles can be found on the website Gaming Page on LinkedIn or on the main page of the site under the “LinkedIn News” tab. accurately determine It’s a word association game. Your goal is to guess the category the words belong to using as few clues as possible. Queens is a game similar to Sudoku that avoids numbers and requires you to place a queen in a grid in a pattern where there is only one queen in each row and column (and they can never be in adjacent squares). Cross ClimbingIn the meantime, you must create a ladder from words that differ by one letter (for example, “lamp” and “lump”).
Microsoft-owned LinkedIn hopes the emergence of such games will further attract viewers and lead them to return more regularly.
“We want to give people a way to exercise their brains during a short break, while also giving people a reason to connect with others,” said Daniel Roth, Editor-in-Chief, Vice President of LinkedIn, in a blog post. “We hope these games will spark banter, conversation and even healthy competition among professionals around the world.”
There is precedent for this. Axios reports That Time its games were played more than 8 billion times last year, with the majority coming from Wordle players, which Time acquired in 2022. Inspired by this success, other companies have added games to their lineup in recent years, from Vulture to Netflix.