New Games on LinkedIn

It's not just for fun, it is for competition and connection - according to LinkedIn

LinkedIn has launched 3 new games for breaks from the grind.

1. Pinpoint: Word Association
2. Queens: Logic
3. Crossclimb: Trivia

The Director of Product Management, Lakshman Somasundaram gave details for each of the games.

PINPOINT

is our word association game —?there’s five words inside a grid, and your objective is to guess (or pinpoint, dare I say!) what common category all the words belong to. But there’s a twist: the five words are hidden, and only one is revealed at a time. You want to guess the category in as few reveals as possible.

QUEENS

is our logic game. The goal here is to fill the grid with queens (??) such that there is one —?and only one — queen in every row, column, and region…with no queens touching each other. There’s only one right answer, and it’s always possible to solve without guessing. And, of course, it’s a race against the clock!

CROSSCLIMB

is our trivia game. Think of it as a combination of a crossword and a word ladder: you use a mix of your trivia and word knowledge to fill out the words in the ladder. As you fill in words, you’ll rearrange them such that each word in the ladder differs by only one letter —?which unlocks two final clues to win the game.

There you have it!

My opinion is LinkedIn is testing the huge gaming community that has bled into every age, platform, live-streaming, entertainment and way of life.

These little games can be addicted to what is already an addicting way of life, the online life through cellphones.

This could be a fun experience for some, but I honestly don't see your next board meeting being led with who has the highest score in Queens.

Lunch breaks and chats by the printer may be the meeting grounds for the department competition in Crossclimb.

Let's see where people pinpoint time for the game Pinpoint in their busy lives!

Written by

Sean Reed

Social Media Strategist