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. A year ago at launch, I was skeptical and called LinkedIn’s efforts “a little bit of a ripoff” of Times games. “I like to think of it as we are very much playing our own game,” Somasundaram says. But the goal for LinkedIn's games, Somasundaram says, is to be more precise. For me and many others, the games have become more of a priority than the other services on LinkedIn.