Look, if we were consistently pulling down scores of two from Wordle daily, we’d also spend the morning bragging about it to our nearest coworkers. But what happens when they inevitably tire of your incessant back-pats? You assert dominance and challenge them to something new, and display it on LinkedIn for everyone to see. At least we think that’s what LinkedIn was going for when it released a slew of Wordle-like games on its site.
Let’s circle back and take this online
Those games are Pinpoint, Crossclimb and Queens. Like any Worlde-like worth their salt, these are designed to only take a couple of minutes to complete (unless you’re a stubborn overthinker) and refresh once a day to make sure you’re always coming back for more. Unlike those at the New York Times, LinkedIn’s games include a scoreboard that ranks your score against your connections or coworkers within a company.
It’s a brilliant move on LinkedIn’s part considering the number of users already signed up to the platform, and one that’s bound to get a lot of attention. LinkedIn’s reasoning behind the decision is clear, because, according to it, “word games in particular have only grown in popularity since the first “word-cross” puzzle was introduced 111 years ago, with a projected annual growth rate of 8.61%.”
Meet the games responsible for lower production
Finding the games is simple. If you weren’t already bombarded with the news when opening the site this morning, you’ll find them lodged in the news module of your homepage or on the ‘My Network’ tab. The links we’ve got below will do the trick, too.
First on the list is Pinpoint – perhaps most similar to Connections – and is described as a “word association game where you try to guess the common category for a set of clues.” You’ll open up the daily game, see your first clue and try to pinpoint (hah!) which category it falls under. Failed guesses reveal a second clue and the chance to guess again. This continues until you either guess the category or use up all five clues.
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Crossclimb is perhaps the most unhinged of the lot. It’ll have you answering simple questions in four-letter arrangements on a ladder, all of which then need to be rearranged so that each is only one letter different from the one above or below it. It took a while for things to click, but once it did… only five minutes had elapsed.
Finally, we come to Queens, a game of logic that will have Sudoku players excited. Queens wants players to fill the grid with all the queens — though they can’t touch each other, must fill at least one block of every colour and cannot be placed on the same column or row. We don’t really need to explain Sudoku, do we?