LinkedIn’s Pinpoint puzzle for today, #690, is based on a very clear word pattern. Each clue becomes a familiar phrase when placed before the word spoon. Once you spot that connection, the category is easy to solve.
Here are the answers arranged exactly as shown in the puzzle:
Tea
Soup
Silver
Measuring
Table (3×Tea most places)
Words that come before “spoon”!
Each word forms a common phrase with spoon. Here is how each one works.
Tea
This becomes tea spoon, more commonly written as teaspoon. It is a small spoon often used for stirring tea, coffee, or measuring small amounts in cooking.
Soup
Together, this forms soup spoon, a larger rounded spoon designed for eating soup and other liquid foods.
Silver
This creates silver spoon, a phrase that can refer to an actual silver utensil or appear in the expression “born with a silver spoon,” meaning someone born into wealth.
Measuring
Add spoon and it becomes measuring spoon, a kitchen tool used to measure small ingredients such as salt, sugar, spices, or baking powder.
Table (3×Tea most places)
This points to table spoon, more commonly written as tablespoon. The note helps explain that in many places, one tablespoon equals about three teaspoons.
Words that come before “spoon”!
The final line reveals the category directly. Every listed clue is a word that commonly comes before spoon.
Today’s Pinpoint puzzle is a simple and satisfying one, built around everyday kitchen and dining vocabulary that most players can recognize quickly once the shared word is found.
