LinkedIn’s Pinpoint #760 for May 30, 2026 focuses on word pairings and common expressions. This puzzle challenges players to identify how several clues connect through a shared word before discovering the final category.
Here are the answers arranged exactly as shown in the puzzle:
Paper
Cut
Feed
Flash
Hump (🐋)
Words that come before “back”!
Each clue forms a familiar word or phrase when paired with “back.” Here’s how they connect:
Paper
This forms paperback, a type of book with a flexible paper cover rather than a hard cover.
Cut
Together they become cutback, meaning a reduction or decrease, often involving spending, staff, or resources.
Feed
This creates feedback, information or responses provided to evaluate or improve performance, ideas, or work.
Flash
This becomes flashback, a scene or memory that returns to an earlier event, commonly used in storytelling and film.
Hump (🐋)
This forms humpback, referring to the humpback whale, a large whale species known for the hump-shaped curve on its back and spectacular breaching behavior.
Words that come before “back”!
The final clue confirms the category: every listed answer is a word that commonly comes before “back.”


