Pinpoint today: clues, hints and answer for Monday, November 9, 2026 (#923)

Here is everything for Pinpoint #923, the LinkedIn puzzle for Monday, November 9, 2026: the clues in order, a hint about the category, and the answer only when you want it.

Our read: the first clue is fairly specific; two or more clues are phrases with a nudge in brackets, which usually means the setters expect you to need them; LinkedIn accepts 3,199 phrasings of the answer, so you do not have to hit the exact wording. The best scores come from committing on clue two or three, so resist the urge to open everything.

Today's clues, one at a time

Clue one is open. Each further clue is behind a click, so you can play along at the same pace as the game.

A hint before the answer

Today's Pinpoint answer

The category for Pinpoint #923 is behind the button. Nothing is shown until you click.

Yesterday's Pinpoint

Pinpoint #922 on Sunday, November 8, gave the clues Rules, Control, Water, Floor, -breaking (new and innovative). The category was Words that come after “ground”. Our full write-up is still up.

How Pinpoint works

Pinpoint shows you five clues, one at a time, that all belong to a single category. Type what you think the category is; a correct guess ends the round, and the fewer clues you needed, the better your score. The category can be phrased many ways, which is why LinkedIn accepts hundreds or thousands of answers for each puzzle, but it has to name the thing the clues have in common, not describe one of them.

A habit that pays: after the second clue, say out loud what the two words have in common and whether that would also hold for a third word you have not seen. If it would, guess. If you cannot think of a third, open one more clue, not two.

Come back tomorrow for Pinpoint #924. Until then, the rest of the Puzzles desk is one click away in the section menu.