LinkedIn PinPoint #600 — How to Solve the “Words that Come Before ‘Bill’” Puzzle (Dec 21, 2025)

Game: LinkedIn PinPoint; question_id: 600; published date: December 21, 2025; question name: PinPoint #600

This post explains how to solve the PinPoint puzzle that used the five hints Water, Duck, Dollar, Appropriation, and Credit Card. The goal: find the single short answer type that links all five hints. The final answer is words that come before “bill”. Below is a concise, SEO-optimized, step-by-step walkthrough so you can reproduce this reasoning on future puzzles.

Quick answer

Answer: Words that come before “bill”.

How the PinPoint puzzle works (brief)

PinPoint gives multiple hints that all point to one shared concept or connector word. Successful solves rely on checking common compounds, idioms, and phrases where each hint pairs naturally with the same target word. For this puzzle, the unifying idea is the set of words that commonly occur immediately before the word “bill”.

Step-by-step reasoning for each hint

• Water → “water bill”

  Interpretation: Many utilities are paid monthly; the phrase “water bill” is extremely common and literal. That makes “water” a clear candidate for a word that pairs with “bill” to form a familiar compound noun.

• Duck → “duck bill”

  Interpretation: Unlike the utility meaning of water, “duck bill” is a biological term (the flat beak of a duck) and also used in names like the platypus’s bill or the “duck-billed” dinosaur group (hadrosaurs). That shows the target connector “bill” pairs naturally with an animal term as well.

• Dollar → “dollar bill”

  Interpretation: A very direct and high-salience pairing — money. “Dollar bill” is a single, common phrase in everyday language, and it strongly suggests that the play is about words that precede “bill.”

• Appropriation → “appropriation bill”

  Interpretation: In legislative context, an “appropriation bill” is the formal act that allocates funds. This clue points to legal/political usage where “bill” follows other nouns to name specific types of legislation, reinforcing the pattern of nouns + “bill.”

• Credit Card → “credit card bill”

  Interpretation: Payments industry phrasing: people refer to their “credit card bill” or “credit card statement.” This is another everyday compound where the word before “bill” identifies the bill’s type.

Putting it together

Each hint produces a natural two-word phrase where the given hint comes before the word bill (water bill, duck bill, dollar bill, appropriation bill, credit card bill). The consistent pattern across all five hints is that they are words or phrases that commonly precede the noun “bill.” That pattern is the single concise answer PinPoint expects.

Why this fits the PinPoint format

• Concise: The answer is short and categorical — a descriptor of a family of two-word phrases.
• Unambiguous: Every hint maps directly to a clear phrase with “bill.”
• Varied domains: The hints span utilities, nature, money, government, and finance, showing PinPoint puzzles often mix domains while keeping one grammatical connector (here, the word “bill”).

Tips for solving similar PinPoint puzzles

• Scan for common connectors: check whether each hint pairs with a single shared word (before or after).
• Consider multiple meanings: a word like “duck” can be animal or verb; both senses can reveal pairings (here animal → duck bill).
• Test different parts of speech: PinPoint answers can be single words, short phrases, or a grammatical category (e.g., “words that come before ‘bill’”).
• Look for the most straightforward, widely used collocation first — common phrases often hint at the intended connector.

Example command-line check (quick mental test)

hints = ["Water","Duck","Dollar","Appropriation","Credit Card"]
for h in hints:
  print(h + " bill")

If every line prints a familiar phrase, the connector is confirmed — here, the output shows the consistent and intended pairing.

Use this method for daily PinPoint practice: list each hint, append candidate connectors (before/after), and pick the connector that yields natural phrases for all hints.

Happy solving — bookmark this approach for LinkedIn PinPoint puzzles and build speed by practicing recognition of common collocations and multi-domain pairings.