6 answer guides

Sports, Games & Competition

Sports vocabulary, equipment, scoring, athletes, board games, and competitive activities. Each guide labels its editing status and explains the clue connections.

How to test this connection

Distinguish a shared rule from shared equipment, a publisher or a competition. A set of games can connect through ownership even when their mechanics are unrelated.

A common wrong turn

Do not force every game into one genre. A dexterity game and a word game can share a publisher without sharing how they are played.

A worked comparison

In #853, Risk, Taboo, Boggle, Cluedo and Jenga span several play styles. Comparing those differences points toward Hasbro rather than one genre.

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Pinpoint #821

Types of golf club!

Iron · Wood · Wedge · Driver · Putter

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Pinpoint #813

Things cats may play with as toys

Laser pointer · Ribbon on a stick · Crinkle ball · Activity / foraging mat · Fur mouse

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Pinpoint #811

Athletic shoe brands

Puma · New Balance · Asics · Adidas · Nike

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Pinpoint #777

Terms associated with football

Wall · Volley · Offside · Yellow card · Bicycle kick

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Pinpoint #769

Things that come in eights (including games on LinkedIn after tomorrow's debut!)

Bits in a byte · Planets in our solar system · Legs on a spider · Corners of a cube · Sides of (most) stop signs

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Pinpoint #741

Toy companies

Steiff · Lego · Hasbro · Bandai Namco · Mattel

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Game strategy

Generated by Gemini

Welcome to our strategy guide for LinkedIn’s Pinpoint. This daily puzzle gives you five clues and challenges you to find the single category that unites them all. Unlike grouping games, your goal is not to divide a board into several sets. The entire puzzle is five clues, one hidden connection. Success requires logic, lateral thinking, and a willingness to reconsider an early idea. The clue board on our homepage shows all five clues at once, allowing you to see the full picture as you apply these techniques.

The complete guide includes worked examples, alternative meanings, and checks for connections that do not fit all five clues.