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After Netflix announced the addition of Netflix Games to their platform some years ago, it seems that LinkedIn too has joined the bandwagon, by releasing a trio of games through its platform to "spark conversations and friendly competition among professionals around the world".
Currently, LinkedIn has three games: Pinpoint, Crossclimb and Queens. The three can be played on both the browser and app versions of the site.
The first game is a word association, where five words will be presented for you to guess which category they belong in. The words do not appear at once; instead, they come out gradually while one tries to guess with as few words as possible.
Then there’s Crossclimb, which is a strange one. You were supposed to invent a ladder for words, each “step” of which would have just one letter differing from others. The locked “steps” will be those that you can unlock only after having first altered existing steps as stated above.
Lastly, there is Queens, which is a game similar to Sudoku; however, it does not have any numbers, and the positions of the squares form different patterns to make it easier. The purpose is clear: you have to place five queens without letting them attack each other on a chess board where they can move, just like in playing chess.
It may be surprising that nobody can use these unless they have signed up with LinkedIn, but the Verge says you can only play each game once per day, much like the once-popular browser-based game Wordle. So far, these games are still free to play on LinkedIn.
