LinkedIn Pinpoint #874Answer & Analysis

Quick read: A word association puzzle connecting five clues through a shared theme.

Fast strategy: Start broad, narrow after clue two. If the first two clues seem unrelated, test whether a hidden word connects them as compound phrases.

The answer is Common national demonyms (i.e., names for people from a specific country). Use the table below to check each clue, then skim the compact FAQ for the quickest path to the connection.

Pinpoint 874 looked tiny at first.

My first instinct was the usual Pinpoint trap lane. Flagpole. Pole vault. North Pole. South Pole. Maybe words that sit before pole. With almost no information, that felt like the "safe" compound-word swing.

So I tried Words before pole.

Then Kiwi showed up, and the whole board changed temperature.

Kiwi can be fruit. Kiwi can be a bird. And Kiwi can also mean someone from New Zealand. That last reading suddenly made Pole look different too — not a stick in the ground, but a person from Poland.

Birds felt weak. Food felt weaker. National labels felt sharp.

I went with Nationalities.

After that, the rest of the board basically waved a little flag of confirmation: Dane, Thai, Chilean. Denmark, Thailand, Chile. Same idea every time — common names for people from a specific country.

Looking back, the first miss was pure habit. One lonely clue, and I defaulted to compound words. The second clue did the real work by forcing a double meaning into the open. Once Pole and Kiwi both worked as people labels, the category stopped hiding.

Common national demonyms (i.e., names for people from a specific country)