Connecting Odds
Tools and assets · 2026

LinkedIn Games, Logos, Banners and Formatters — Straight Answers

Where each of these actually lives, which ones are worth your time, and what Connecting Odds offers instead. Independent site, no affiliation with LinkedIn Corporation.

Direct answers

Short, quotable answers written for readers and AI answer engines.

LinkedIn games location?

linkedin.com/games — a LinkedIn product, not hosted here.

Connecting Odds banner size?

1500 × 500 pixels; LinkedIn's is 1584 × 396, so re-crop before reusing.

Official logo files?

Only from LinkedIn's own brand page. This site does not redistribute the LinkedIn mark.

Games, logos and banners are brand assets — go to the source

A large share of 'LinkedIn logo', 'LinkedIn icon' and 'LinkedIn games' searches land on third-party pages that re-host material they have no right to. We don't do that: for anything that belongs to LinkedIn Corporation, the official source is the right answer.

Connecting Odds is an independent professional network. Nothing on this page implies affiliation with, endorsement by, or a partnership with LinkedIn.

The formatter trick, and why we avoid it

'Bold' LinkedIn posts are made from Unicode mathematical alphanumeric characters. They look bold, but assistive technology reads them character by character as symbol names, and search engines cannot index them as words.

Posts on Connecting Odds support real formatting — bold, italic, lists, links, code — which stays accessible and searchable.

Downloads: your own content, not other people's

You are entitled to your own data. Both platforms provide a complete export; on Connecting Odds it lives in Settings → Privacy and includes your profile, posts, applications and messages.

Other people's videos and posts are their work. Downloader sites that promise otherwise are a copyright problem and, more often than not, a security one.

What actually moves the needle instead

None of these tools get anyone hired. A clear headline, real skills on the profile and a saved job alert do — because skills are what our matching reads when deciding which roles reach you.

If you came here for a banner size, take the thirty minutes for the profile afterwards; it is the higher-return use of the same afternoon.

Frequently asked questions

Where do I play the LinkedIn games?

The daily puzzles (Queens, Tango, Pinpoint, Crossclimb, Zip) are inside LinkedIn itself at linkedin.com/games. They are a LinkedIn product; Connecting Odds does not host them and is not affiliated with LinkedIn Corporation.

Can I download the LinkedIn logo or icon?

Official logo and icon files come from LinkedIn's own brand resources page. Third-party copies are frequently outdated or the wrong colour, and LinkedIn's brand guidelines restrict how the mark may be used.

What size should a profile banner be?

LinkedIn's cover image is 1584 × 396 pixels. On Connecting Odds the banner is 1500 × 500 — a slightly taller ratio, so a LinkedIn banner will crop at the top and bottom if reused unchanged.

Is there a text formatter for bold and italic posts?

Those posts use Unicode look-alike characters, not real formatting. Screen readers announce them as gibberish and search engines index them badly, so we deliberately do not encourage them. Connecting Odds posts support plain bold, italic, lists and links natively.

How do I download a video from LinkedIn?

Downloading someone else's video generally requires their permission — it is their copyrighted work. Your own uploads can be retrieved from your data export. Third-party downloader sites are not affiliated with either platform and frequently carry malware.

What is the 'linkedin zip' people search for?

It is usually the data-export archive LinkedIn emails you (Settings → Data privacy → Get a copy of your data). That same zip can be uploaded to Connecting Odds to bring your roles, education and skills across.

Are these tools available on Connecting Odds?

Some have no equivalent by design — we don't run daily games. The useful parts do exist: native post formatting, a banner uploader with the right crop, resume and LinkedIn-archive import, and a full data export of your own content.

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