Pinpoint today: clues, hints and answer for Sunday, November 1, 2026 (#915)

The Sunday Pinpoint is out. Puzzle #915 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 1,944 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 #915 is behind the button. Nothing is shown until you click.

Yesterday's Pinpoint

Pinpoint #914 on Saturday, October 31, gave the clues Books, Cacti, Sea urchins, Vertebrates (by definition), Porcupines (they're sharp!). The category was Things with spines. 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.

Pinpoint resets each morning. We will be back tomorrow with the clues for #916.