Pinpoint Answer Today #891
Thursday, October 08, 2026. The clue pattern, progressive hints, and a full explanation of why the answer fits.
Clues
Example clues generated by AI from the confirmed answer — the original game clue words are not part of the daily archive.
Hints
Answer
The answer is the label for words that can precede 'breaker' to form common phrases like circuit breaker or ice breaker.
Explanation
The answer is the label for words that can precede 'breaker' to form common phrases like circuit breaker or ice breaker.
The pattern is words-before: each clue is a word that appears immediately before 'breaker' in a familiar two-word phrase. The shared label therefore describes the relationship 'Words that come before “breaker”'. This makes the answer the correct label for the five hidden items.
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circuit
circuit breaker is a safety device that stops electrical flow. -
wave
wave breaker is a structure that reduces wave energy on shores. -
ice
ice breaker is a ship designed to navigate through frozen waters. -
heart
heartbreaker describes someone who causes romantic disappointment. -
record
record breaker refers to a person or thing that surpasses a previous best.
How to solve this answer
Words Before
Each clue can sit in front of the answer to make a familiar word or phrase. The answer is the shared second part.
Playing, Greeting, and Report all come before Card. The answer is Card: playing card, greeting card, report card.
Medium
Clues need a second look or a shift in angle. The link is fair, but the first reading of one or two clues usually misleads.
Wordplay
Puzzles that lean on double meanings, homophones, prefixes, suffixes, and the way English words bend. Read each clue twice before you trust the first reading.
Words Before puzzles feel like fill-in-the-blank until the blank stops moving. Try saying your candidate out loud after each clue. If four clues sound natural and the fifth sounds invented, the candidate is wrong.
Most answers here are short and common: card, work, house, light, board. Long or technical answers almost never work in this pattern, so do not force a rare word just because it fits one clever clue.