diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/internal/check/pins.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/internal/check/pins.go
index 1de0a6e..83fb809 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/internal/check/pins.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/internal/check/pins.go
@@ -118,8 +118,10 @@ func (st *state) checkPinsOf(ctx context.Context, t *target) verdictPtr {
 	return nil
 }
 
-// sameBranchPin names the branch of the tried repository that points at the tried head and that mesh-sdk also has, at the
-// commit the pin names; empty when there is none.
+// sameBranchPin names the mesh-sdk branch whose head the pin is, for a try: the branch of the tried repository that points
+// at the tried head and that mesh-sdk also has, at the commit the pin names, first; else any branch of mesh-sdk but its
+// trunk whose head the pin is, for a try asked by a bare commit that no branch of the tried repository points at (issue
+// 1624; try speed S12). Empty when there is none.
 func (st *state) sameBranchPin(ctx context.Context, t *target, pin string) (string, error) {
 	mine, err := st.j.Forge.BranchHeads(ctx, t.pull.Repository)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -131,9 +133,6 @@ func (st *state) sameBranchPin(ctx context.Context, t *target, pin string) (stri
 			same = append(same, name)
 		}
 	}
-	if len(same) == 0 {
-		return "", nil
-	}
 	sdk, err := st.j.Forge.BranchHeads(ctx, SDKRepository)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
@@ -144,6 +143,16 @@ func (st *state) sameBranchPin(ctx context.Context, t *target, pin string) (stri
 			return name, nil
 		}
 	}
+	var any []string
+	for name, h := range sdk {
+		if name != "main" && strings.HasPrefix(h, pin) {
+			any = append(any, name)
+		}
+	}
+	sort.Strings(any)
+	if len(any) > 0 {
+		return any[0], nil
+	}
 	return "", nil
 }
 
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/internal/check/pins_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/internal/check/pins_test.go
index 0c4dba0..5ebb992 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/internal/check/pins_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/internal/check/pins_test.go
@@ -408,3 +408,22 @@ func TestAMergeCheckWithTheSameBranchPinIsStillRefusedWithoutAGroupPullRequest(t
 		t.Fatalf("verdict = %+v", v)
 	}
 }
+
+// Issue 1624 (met again on 2026-10-25; try speed S12): a try asked by a bare commit, which no branch of the tried
+// repository points at, still takes a pin that is the head of a mesh-sdk branch, naming that branch; a pin that is the head
+// of no mesh-sdk branch is still refused.
+func TestATryByCommitTakesAPinThatIsTheHeadOfAnSDKBranch(t *testing.T) {
+	b, c := sameBranchBench(t, head2[:12])
+	b.ex.Forge.(*fakeForge).branches[repoA] = map[string]string{"main": trunkA, "feat/r6": trunkA2} // the branch moved on
+	if v := b.judge(t, c).Verdict; v.State != delivery.VerdictPass {
+		t.Fatalf("verdict = %+v", v)
+	}
+	if n := c.Notes(); len(n) != 1 || n[0] != "pin accepted: head of mesh-sdk feat/r6" {
+		t.Errorf("notes = %q", n)
+	}
+	b, c = sameBranchBench(t, "9aaa5c80ac5c")
+	b.ex.Forge.(*fakeForge).branches[repoA] = map[string]string{"main": trunkA}
+	if v := b.judge(t, c).Verdict; v.State != delivery.VerdictFail || !strings.Contains(v.Failed.Words, "neither on mesh-sdk's trunk") {
+		t.Errorf("a pin no mesh-sdk branch holds: verdict = %+v", v)
+	}
+}