LinkedIn now offers eight games, allowing you to compete with colleagues and contacts on the professional networking site. After launching four titles in 2024, it added Zip, a puzzle game, in March 2025 and Mini Sudoku in August 2025. Following the arrival of Patches in March 2026, the latest release was Wend , a word puzzle game, in June 2026.
Thus, as if it were Facebook and its popular games , or the also recently launched YouTube games , the Microsoft-owned company strengthens its presence in the gaming world, which has a clear objective.
The social network, which has already surpassed 1.2 billion accounts (LinkedIn doesn’t provide data on active users, only on profiles on the platform), aims to retain more users with these games, providing entertainment that encourages them to spend more time on their profiles. This, of course, would allow it to offer better data on user engagement to potential advertisers, among other advantages.
But as a user, you might be curious to try LinkedIn’s new games. That’s why in this video we explain how to access and play the games on LinkedIn, and you’ll find more information afterwar
How to access LinkedIn games
The games LinkedIn offers its users are simple, puzzle-like, in the style of the hugely popular “Wordle ,” whose success the social network is trying to emulate and which was acquired by The New York Times in 2022 in an exceptional move. Even today, millions of people play it every day around the world.
Users can play the games once a day. To access them, go to the following URL: linkedin.com/games. You can also access the games from the news hub on the LinkedIn home screen or in the ‘My Network’ tab, on both computers and mobile devices.
Users can connect to these games, track their daily score, and compare scores with other users in their network. They can also find leaderboards and rankings in LinkedIn games to see which other contacts have played and how they performed.
All games are now available globally.
What games has LinkedIn launched?
The games allow LinkedIn users to improve their skills and test their cognitive abilities, such as attention, concentration, and mental flexibility. These are the eight titles released to date:
-Wend: It’s a puzzle-style word game that will remind you of Sudoku or the very popular Wordle. You have to find a series of words hidden in a kind of word search. Pull on a letter to find each one and solve the board.
-Patches: This is a simple logic game where you’ll have a grid and a series of shaped pieces. You have to fit them together so that there are no gaps in the grid, and the shapes don’t overlap. Find a way to fit them all in and fill the square.
-Mini Sudoku: This is the latest game released by the Microsoft-owned social network in August 2025. It’s a simplified version of the classic Sudoku, designed to be solved in quick 3-4 minute sessions. Each day you’ll face a new numerical challenge in the form of a puzzle, and you can compete with your contacts to see who can do it the fastest.
– Zip: This game was launched by LinkedIn in March 2025. In it you must create lines that connect the sequence of numbers, while passing through all the squares of the game rectangle.
It’s a simple and addictive mechanic, and the difficulty will also increase as players complete daily games.
-Tango: This game was released in October 2024. It’s a logic game where you match images of a sun and a moon on a grid. You can’t put two identical images next to each other, each row must have the same number of different images, and there are other special rules. Squares joined by an equals sign (=) must have the same icon, while those joined by an x must have different icons.
-Queens: Queens is a logic game in which you have to fill the grid so that there is only one queen () per row, column and colored region.
Crossclimb: This is a question-and-answer game where you use clues to correctly guess each word on the ladder. The main problem with this game is that it’s in English, and it’s not very easy to play unless you have a high level of English.
Pinpoint: Pinpoint is a word association game where you try to guess (or “locate”) the common category or theme that unites a set of words. You are given five clues to help you figure out this common category. The challenge is to guess the category with the fewest clues revealed. It is also available in English, which makes it more difficult.
Why games are important for LinkedIn
LinkedIn’s owner Microsoft ‘s experience in the gaming world, with popular names like Xbox and the recently acquired Activision Blizzard, could help LinkedIn develop an interesting product within the platform, even though this area isn’t currently thriving. In fact, the company laid off nearly 2,000 people from its gaming division in early 2024.
Gaming has been very popular on social platforms like Facebook since almost its inception, although the company seems to have neglected it in recent years. In fact, it even shut down the Facebook Gaming app in 2022 .
However, for LinkedIn, games play a fundamental role: motivating users to return to the platform every day. According to LinkedIn, 80% of people who play a game return the next day, and 76% do so the following week.
LinkedIn has a problem: of its more than 1.2 billion accounts, only 40% are currently active. Therefore, it needs to find new ways to capture users’ attention and encourage them to return to the social network.
It’s true that many companies have used them to increase user engagement time. This ranges from media outlets—general interest newspapers even include games—to many companies that feature games on their websites to entertain visitors. But… will this be a successful strategy for LinkedIn, with its strong professional focus?
