Past LinkedIn Pinpoint Answers: Yesterday & Every Category

About This Archive of Past Pinpoint Answers

This is a day-by-day list of LinkedIn Pinpoint puzzles from #458 (August 1, 2025) to yesterday: each puzzle's category, its five clues, its number and its date. A new puzzle is added every day, and the search box covers every category and clue.

Each row gives the date, the puzzle number, the category and the five clues in the order the game reveals them. The ticket at the top holds yesterday's puzzle, hidden until you tap it. For the current one, see Pinpoint answer today.

LinkedIn doesn't publish an archive of past Pinpoint answers, so this page is the record we keep instead. How each entry is checked is explained further down.

What 468 Pinpoint Categories Have in Common

We sorted every category from #458 (August 1, 2025) to #925 (November 11, 2026) by how it begins. Three patterns cover most of them.

One more fact stands out: no Pinpoint category has been used twice in these 468 puzzles, even allowing for punctuation. Some templates do return with a new twist, such as "Things represented by the letter …", which has appeared for K, M and N.

Words Before and After: Pinpoint's Favourite Trick

More than a quarter of all Pinpoint categories, 133 of 468, are about a word that goes before or after each clue. "Before" is more common (79 puzzles) than "after" (54).

These are often the hardest puzzles to get early, because the first clue on its own looks like a normal word. "Bus" could be a vehicle; only by the time you see "Golf", "Fridge", "Skirt" and "Cooper" does "mini ___" become obvious (#469). Likewise "Clear", "Short" and "Tax" all sit in front of "cut" (#746).

A good habit: if the first clue is a single plain word that fits no category on its own, start trying it with common words in front of it and behind it. That one question solves more than a quarter of all Pinpoints.

How Pinpoint Clues Are Written

Most clues are single words: 72% of the 2,340 clues in the archive. When a clue needs help, it gets a short hint in brackets, and 132 puzzles have at least one, such as "Helices (DNA is usually right)" in #696 or "Thompson Seedless (Sultana)" in #747.

A few clues use emoji, too: 16 puzzles include one, like "Gloves (🫲 + 🫱)" in the left- and right-handed objects puzzle (#696). The archive keeps clues exactly as the game showed them, hints included, because the hint is often the most useful part.

Use the search box to find every puzzle that used a particular clue word; it searches clues as well as categories.

Pinpoint Clues Have Been Getting More Hints

In our records, bracketed hints have become much more common over time.

"Before/after" puzzles, meanwhile, have been a little less frequent lately: 21% of puzzles since October 2026, against 28% to 35% in late 2025. If you learned Pinpoint on the early puzzles, expect more general-knowledge categories and more bracketed help than you're used to.

Finding a Past Pinpoint Answer

• By date: use the month links above the list. The two most recent months are open.
• By number: every row shows the puzzle number, and #N falls N − 1 days after May 1, 2024.
• By a word you remember: type it into the search box. It finds Pinpoint answers by category and by clue, then opens the right months.
• Yesterday's Pinpoint answer: it's always on the ticket at the top, hidden until you tap.
• One puzzle in full: from August 2026 on, the date in each row opens that puzzle's own page, with two hints before the answer, how each clue fits, and the other puzzles that used the same clues.

Remember that Pinpoint changes at midnight Pacific Time. If you played late in the evening in Europe or Asia, the puzzle you solved may carry the previous day's date here.

Getting Better at Pinpoint With Past Answers

1. Learn the three big templates. "Words before/after …", "Things that …" and "Types of …" cover almost two-thirds of all puzzles. Run through those first when the opening clue is ambiguous.
2. Read clue hints carefully. A bracketed hint usually rules out the obvious meaning of the word.
3. Practise with old puzzles. Cover the Category column in the list, read the clues one at a time, and see how many you need. Then play fresh categories in our unlimited Pinpoint game.

How LinkedIn Pinpoint Works

Pinpoint is LinkedIn's daily category game. You see one clue, a word or short phrase, and try to name the category it belongs to. Each wrong guess reveals another clue, up to five. The fewer clues you need, the better your score.

The categories range from plain sets ("Types of grain") to wordplay ("Words that come before bill") to letter tricks ("Things represented by the letter N"). The clues are chosen so the first one or two fit several categories; the later ones narrow it down.

Pinpoint resets at midnight Pacific Time, which is 3 a.m. Eastern. Want to practise between puzzles? Try our unlimited Pinpoint game.

How Pinpoint Puzzles Are Numbered

Pinpoint #1 was published on May 1, 2024, and the number has gone up by one every day since, with no skipped days. That makes it easy to move between numbers and dates:

• From a number: puzzle #N falls N − 1 days after May 1, 2024. For example, #458 is August 1, 2025, and #900 is October 17, 2026.
• From a date: count the days since May 1, 2024 and add one.

Every entry in this archive was checked against that rule: a record is only kept when its number and its date agree.

How Every Entry Is Checked

Because LinkedIn keeps no public archive, each past puzzle was recorded from two answer sites that track the game every day. An entry is kept only when:

• both sites list the same five clues, in the same order, letter for letter;
• their categories agree, allowing for small differences in wording such as "Castle parts" and "Parts of a castle", but not for real differences such as "before" versus "after";
• the puzzle number matches the date.

The two sites may not be fully independent of each other (both of their archives begin with the same puzzle), so we treat their agreement as a consistency check rather than proof. Where they disagreed, we compared their categories with the five clues ourselves and kept the version the clues support; that happened four times, all over wording. For six days in March and May 2026 only one of the two sites had the puzzle, so we checked its category against its clues by hand before including it. Since mid-2026 we have also recorded each day's puzzle ourselves, and eight of our own early records, which had picked up stray text from a source page, were corrected from the two sites. We store only the facts, the clues and the category, never the explanations those sites write.

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