Pinpoint today: clues, hints and answer for Tuesday, November 3, 2026 (#917)

Welcome to Tuesday's Pinpoint. Puzzle #917 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 3,659 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 #917 is behind the button. Nothing is shown until you click.

Yesterday's Pinpoint

Pinpoint #916 on Monday, November 2, gave the clues Body, Greeting, Address, Signature, P.S. (after the main text). The category was Parts of written correspondence (letter or email). 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 #918. Until then, the rest of the Puzzles desk is one click away in the section menu.