LinkedIn Pinpoint Answer Today 781 June 20, 2026

Welcome to LinkedIn Pinpoint Answers Today, your daily guide to the LinkedIn Pinpoint puzzle. Every morning we publish the complete set of clues and the confirmed answer for that day's puzzle, so whether you are stuck on a tricky clue or you simply missed a day, you will always find what you need here.

LinkedIn Pinpoint is a category-guessing game: you are shown one word at a time — up to five clues in total — and you have to identify the hidden category they all share. It sounds straightforward, but the first clue is usually broad enough to fit dozens of possible answers, which is what makes the puzzle genuinely challenging. The earlier you can name the category, the better your score, so there is real skill in knowing when to guess and when to wait for another clue.

On this page you will find today's puzzle at the top. Scroll down for a complete strategy guide, a breakdown of the most common category types, an extensive FAQ, and links into our full archive of past puzzles. Everything on this site is free, requires no account, and is written by people who play Pinpoint every single day.

LinkedIn Pinpoint is a free daily word-association game published by the LinkedIn News team as part of the LinkedIn News Games collection. The premise is deceptively simple: you are shown a single word, and you have to work out the hidden category that word belongs to. Guess correctly and you win. Guess wrong and a second clue word appears, then a third, and so on, up to five clues total. The earlier you identify the category, the better your score.

What makes Pinpoint genuinely tricky is that the first clue is almost always broad enough to belong to dozens of possible categories. The word "Mercury," for instance, could point to planets, chemical elements, Roman gods, car brands, or even Freddie Mercury. Only as more clues arrive does the real category come into focus. The skill lies in resisting the urge to lock in a guess too early — while also recognising that waiting for clue five costs you points.

Pinpoint resets once every 24 hours. A brand-new puzzle replaces the old one, and there is no official way to replay past puzzles inside the LinkedIn app. That daily-only format is exactly why answer guides like this one exist: if you miss a day, or you get stuck and don't want to waste your remaining guesses, you can look up the clues and the solution here instead.

This site publishes the full set of five clues and the confirmed answer for every single day's puzzle, plus a complete archive going back through previous puzzles. Everything is organised by puzzle number and date so you can find any specific day in seconds.

1. Treat clue one as a brainstorming prompt, not a guess prompt

When the first word appears, do not try to name the category yet. Instead, spend a few seconds listing every category that word could plausibly belong to. If the word is "Saturn," your mental list might be: planets, Roman gods, car models, NASA rockets, Sega consoles. Holding several possibilities open at once is what lets you converge quickly when clue two narrows the field. Players who guess on clue one and miss have effectively thrown away their best scoring opportunity for nothing.

2. Use clue two to find the intersection

The second clue is where most solvable puzzles crack open. Take your list of candidate categories from clue one and ask which of them also contains clue two. If clue one was "Saturn" and clue two is "Mars," the intersection of "planets" and "Roman gods" is still alive, but "car models" and "Sega consoles" are mostly dead. One more clue usually settles it. The habit to build is intersection-thinking: you are not looking for a category that fits the newest clue, you are looking for the category that fits every clue you have seen so far.

3. Watch for wordplay and "shape" categories

Not every Pinpoint category is a tidy semantic group like "fruits" or "European capitals." A meaningful share of puzzles use structural categories — words that all contain a hidden smaller word, words that all rhyme, words that are all anagrams of something, or words that all start or end with the same letters. If the clues seem completely unrelated in meaning, stop looking for a meaning-based link and start looking at the letters themselves. "Carpet," "target," and "forget" share nothing thematically, but they all end in "-et" and contain other words.

4. Read clue five as a near-giveaway

If you have reached the fifth and final clue, the puzzle is no longer testing your speed — it is testing whether you can solve it at all. Clue five is typically the most specific, most narrowing word in the set. By this point you should be able to eliminate every category except one. If you still can't see it, re-read all five clues in order and say them out loud; hearing them often surfaces a pattern your eyes skipped.

5. Phrase your guess at the right level of generality

Pinpoint accepts the category in a fairly forgiving range of phrasings, but you still want to aim for the level the puzzle is built around. "Types of dance" will usually be accepted where "dances" or "dance styles" also work, but an over-specific guess like "Latin ballroom dances" may be rejected if the actual category is broader. When in doubt, guess the simplest, most general phrasing that still captures the link.

6. Study patterns across many puzzles

The single best long-term improvement is volume. The more Pinpoint puzzles you see, the faster you recognise the editors' favourite category types. That is the real purpose of our answer archive — not just to look up a day you missed, but to scroll through dozens of past puzzles and internalise the rhythm of how clues are built. After a few weeks of this, clue two will start feeling like clue four used to.

• Geographic groups — world capitals, countries sharing a border, rivers, mountain ranges, US states, or cities on a particular continent.
• Pop culture sets — characters from a single film or franchise, bands from a genre, streaming shows, or famous directors.
• Food and drink — cuisines, cocktail ingredients, types of cheese, breakfast foods, baking terms.
• Business and work vocabulary — a fitting theme for a LinkedIn game: job titles, finance terms, meeting jargon, startup vocabulary.
• Sports — positions in a specific sport, equipment, leagues, or famous venues.
• Science and nature — chemical elements, planets, animal groups, weather phenomena, parts of a cell.
• Wordplay structures — words containing a hidden word, words that rhyme, compound words sharing a root, or words that become new words when read backwards.
• Abstract associations — the hardest type: words linked by an idea rather than a literal set, such as "things associated with luck" or "words that can precede 'house'."