Doubled for Thursday, March 14, 2024
One picture, one hidden three-word chain. The first two words make a familiar phrase, the last two make another, and the middle word belongs to both. New to the game? Read how to play first.
Hints
Open them one at a time. Each one gives away a little more than the last.
Hint 1
The answer is 4 words long, with 3, 6, 7 and 4 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 7 letters and starts with S.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 3 words, the second is 2, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
Something that isn't hard to understand, then a school exhibition of experiments.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Not Rocket Fair
Not rocket science and Science fair, joined on Science.
Not rocket science
'It's not rocket science' means something is not difficult to grasp, said with a bit of impatience to someone who is overcomplicating it.
Science fair
A science fair is the school event where students display experiments on trifold boards and explain them to judges.
How players did
Across 1,216 plays, 17% got the whole answer in one guess, 9% solved it without a miss, 13% got there after at least one wrong guess, 17% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 44% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on March 14, 2024, March 14, 2025 and March 14, 2026.