The Sunday Pinpoint is out. Puzzle #922 is below, from the first clue to the full answer and the other phrasings LinkedIn accepts.
Our read: the first clue is a short word that could point almost anywhere; LinkedIn accepts 2,406 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.
▶ Reveal clue 2
2Control
▶ Reveal clue 3
3Water
▶ Reveal clue 4
4Floor
▶ Reveal clue 5
5-breaking (new and innovative)
A hint before the answer
The shape of the categoryLinkedIn's wording of the category is five words long and starts with W. One of the words in it is G····· (6 letters).
Today's Pinpoint answer
The category for Pinpoint #922 is behind the button. Nothing is shown until you click.
▶ Reveal the answer to Pinpoint #922
Words that come after “ground”
What Rules, Control, Water, Floor, -breaking (new and innovative) have in common: Words that come after “ground”.
Yesterday's Pinpoint
Pinpoint #921 on Saturday, November 7, gave the clues Guide, Carriage, Handbag brand, Airplane section, Sports team leader. The category was Different definitions of "coach". 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.
That is Sunday's category. See you tomorrow for Pinpoint #923; today's Wordle, Connections and Strands are in the Puzzles section too.