LinkedIn Pinpoint #757 Answer & Analysis

Car and Swimming are the friendly clues here, but they also make the board easy to overread. At first, I would not jump straight from them to transportation or exercise, because Dating and Jury do not belong in either place. The better move is to ask whether each clue can become a familiar compound phrase with one quiet noun after it. Once Jury and Gene are tested that way, the list stops scattering and starts lining up.

The hidden noun is pool. Car becomes Car pool, Dating becomes Dating pool, Jury becomes Jury pool, Gene becomes Gene pool, and Swimming becomes Swimming pool. The first and last clues are common enough that they can tempt a quick solve, but the middle clues are the real test.

Jury is the clue that makes the answer feel less like a casual guess. A Jury pool is a real term for the group of possible jurors before selection. Gene does similar work from a different direction, because Gene pool is a scientific phrase rather than a place or social setting.

That mix is what makes the puzzle neat. It does not ask for one physical kind of object. It asks you to notice that five different worlds can all borrow pool as the second word. Once that happens, the board feels much cleaner than any transport, Dating, or people-only idea.

For a fast solve, start with Swimming, but do not stop there. Check whether the hidden word also works with the less obvious clues. If Jury and Gene both pass, then Car and Dating are no longer loose hints; they become two more examples of the same compound-word pattern.

The answer was Types of pool.