It's Friday, and LinkedIn's Pinpoint #920 is waiting. We have the clues, a hint about the shape of the answer, and the category itself behind a spoiler shield.
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 4,169 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
2Street
▶ Reveal clue 3
3Vinyl record
▶ Reveal clue 4
4Sheet of paper
▶ Reveal clue 5
5Coin (heads and tails)
A hint before the answer
The shape of the categoryLinkedIn's wording of the category is five words long and starts with T. One of the words in it is H··· (4 letters).
Today's Pinpoint answer
The category for Pinpoint #920 is behind the button. Nothing is shown until you click.
▶ Reveal the answer to Pinpoint #920
Things that have two sides
What Argument, Street, Vinyl record, Sheet of paper, Coin (heads and tails) have in common: Things that have two sides.
Also acceptedtwo sides · two sided · two sideses · two sideds · two side · and 4,163 other phrasings
Yesterday's Pinpoint
Pinpoint #919 on Thursday, November 5, gave the clues Cold, Age, Mason, Henge, ’s throw away. The category was Terms that come after “stone”. 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 #921. Until then, the rest of the Puzzles desk is one click away in the section menu.