Space exploration
Only a moon shot fits; flu vaccines, espresso orders, and basketball jumpers have nothing to do with NASA.
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Pinpoint Answer Today asks: what links Moon, Flu, Espresso, Jump, and Not by a long â and what story do they share? Follow the spoiler-safe hints one by one, then reveal the final connection and see how each clue fits together.
Moon Flu Espresso Jump â What connects Moon, Flu, Espresso, Jump?
LinkedIn Pinpoint #566 Answer:
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Pinpoint 566 tosses together Moon, Flu, Espresso, Jump, and the fragment âNot by a longââa wild mix of space headlines, doctor visits, cafĂŠ orders, basketball moves, and idioms. The only way to corral them is to tack on the same noun after every clue and notice that each phrase suddenly becomes a familiar type of âshot.â
Moon shot is a bold, ambitious attempt, a flu shot is a vaccination, an espresso shot is a single serving of coffee, a jump shot is a basketball scoring move, and ânot by a long shotâ is an idiom meaning ânot even closeâ. The clues range from sports to medicine to coffee, but every one forms a familiar phrase with the word âshotâ, making words that precede âshotâ the connector.
Early guesses like âthings related to basketballâ or âphrases about riskâ feel tempting but break on flu and espresso. Once you try reading each clue followed by âshotâ and hear how natural the phrases sound, alternative themes fall away and the shared word becomes obvious.
Space exploration
Only a moon shot fits; flu vaccines, espresso orders, and basketball jumpers have nothing to do with NASA.
Medical procedures
Flu shot is medical, but moon shot and jump shot are metaphorical or athletic, so the grouping collapses.
Sports plays
Jump shot and long shot sound sporty, yet moon and espresso belong to science and coffee, not a playbook.
| Word | Origin | In Context (Usage) | Meaning & Usage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moon | â | âMoon shotâ | A "moon shot" describes an ambitious goal or, in basketball, an arcing attemptâboth rely on the word shot after moon. |
| Flu | â | âFlu shotâ | A flu shot is the seasonal vaccine against influenza. |
| Espresso | â | âEspresso shotâ | Coffee bars pull espresso shots, single servings of concentrated coffee. |
| Jump | â | âJump shotâ | A jump shot is a basketball scoring move taken while leaping. |
| Not by a long | â | âNot by a long shotâ | The idiom "not by a long shot" means ânot even close,â again hinging on the same final word. |
Test repeated suffixes
When clues look like stray nouns, try slotting the same word after each one to see if natural phrases emerge.
Mix literal and metaphor
A solid connector can span literal shots (vaccines, espresso) and figurative ones (moon shot, long shot) if the phrasing stays consistent.
Reject partial categories fast
If a theory fails on even two clues, move onâonly âshotâ explained all five without exceptions.
Each clue forms a common phrase when followed by the word âshotâ: moon shot, flu shot, espresso shot, jump shot, long shot.
Those labels only cover a subset of clues, whereas adding âshotâ after every word works universally.
Yesâfinishing the idiom gives âlong shot,â which still uses the same suffix as the other clues.