Welcome to Tuesday's Pinpoint. Puzzle #924 is live on LinkedIn, and below we reveal the five clues the way the game does, one at a time, with the category behind a click at the end.
Our read: the first clue is a short word that could point almost anywhere; LinkedIn accepts 3,765 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
2Chalk
▶ Reveal clue 3
3Milk
▶ Reveal clue 4
4Doves
▶ Reveal clue 5
5Polar bears
A hint before the answer
The shape of the categoryLinkedIn's wording of the category is four words long and starts with T. One of the words in it is W···· (5 letters).
Today's Pinpoint answer
The category for Pinpoint #924 is behind the button. Nothing is shown until you click.
▶ Reveal the answer to Pinpoint #924
Things that are white
What Snow, Chalk, Milk, Doves, Polar bears have in common: Things that are white.
Yesterday's Pinpoint
Pinpoint #923 on Monday, November 9, gave the clues Temperature, Humidity, Atmospheric pressure, Wind speed and direction, Chance of precipitation. The category was Parts of a weather forecast. 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 #925.