LinkedIn Games Are Still the Best Part of LinkedIn

When you complete a game, LinkedIn tells you your score, the average time it takes you to solve that game, and which of your connections have played. (I reached out to Rubin because LinkedIn told me he played nearly every day, just like me.) There isn’t a real ranking system, though if you do well enough, LinkedIn will congratulate you by saying you’ve done better than some percentage of CEOs on the platform. “I just instantly got hooked,” says Tavonne Thomas, a photographer in London. “Listen, when it says you are smarter than a certain percent of the CEOs, I can't help but feel good about myself that day.” The move to add games was inspired by hits like Wordle and the absolute puzzle juggernaut that is the games division of The New York Times. A year ago at launch, I was skeptical and called LinkedIn’s efforts “a little bit of a ripoff” of Times games. Insiders wouldn’t totally disagree. Lakshman Somasundaram, who runs LinkedIn’s games division, video, and other internal efforts to ... Read full article.