Getting into the gaming business is a strategy digital contentplatforms tend to adopt for two reasons: one, as a way of keeping old usersengaged with the platform and attracting new users; and two, for increasingrevenue. LinkedIn has recently become one of these platforms too, with the launchof its own puzzle games.

The games are: ‘Pinpoint,’ ‘Crossclimb,’ and ‘Queens,’ andthey are all available on LinkedIn on desktop as well as mobile. Each of thesegames can be played once in a day. They also show metrics like high score, dailystreak, leaderboards, and people you know that have played them.

Pinpoint is a word-association game. Players are shown fivedifferent words that they need to guess the category for in as few words aspossible. Crossclimb is a wordplay game where players are given a clue for aword that acts as a starting point, and then following the word they arerequired to create a ladder of words. Each subsequent word begins with the lastletter 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 withletters. The aim of the game is to place queens on a grid in a way that noqueens touch each other and there is a single queen in each row and column.