Pinpoint today: clues, hints and answer for Friday, October 30, 2026 (#913)

It's Friday, and LinkedIn's Pinpoint #913 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 a short word that could point almost anywhere; two or more clues are phrases with a nudge in brackets, which usually means the setters expect you to need them; LinkedIn accepts 3,611 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 #913 is behind the button. Nothing is shown until you click.

Yesterday's Pinpoint

Pinpoint #912 on Thursday, October 29, gave the clues Jet, Gulf, Blood, Live (on Twitch), Swimming up-. The category was Words that come before “stream”. 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 Friday's category. See you tomorrow for Pinpoint #914; today's Wordle, Connections and Strands are in the Puzzles section too.