LinkedIn, the platform used by companies and employees, is officially launching three games

LinkedIn, the platform used by companies and employees, including in Romania, owned by the IT giant Microsoft, has announced that it is officially launching three games for its users.

The three games, Pinpoint, Queens and Crossclimb, are available globally both from LinkedIn News, the division that developed them, and in the “My Network” section, on desktop and mobile.

LinkedIn says the games are meant to help users start conversations and engage in friendly competition.

• Pinpoint is a word matching game;
• Queens is a logic game that challenges players to fill each row, column and colored region in the grid with a “queen”;
• Cross climb it is described as a trivia game. It involves creating a word ladder that will unlock other clues.

LinkedIn is one of the world’s largest professional networks, with more than 850 million members in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. LinkedIn was launched by Reid Hoffman and Eric Ly in 2003 in Silicon Valley, more precisely in Mountain View, California. Since 2016, the platform has been bought by Microsoft, at a price of 26.2 billion dollars.