Doubled for Monday, April 1, 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 3 words long, with 5, 5 and 3 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 5 letters and starts with Q.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 2 words, the second is 2, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
Someone who overreacts to everything, then the ruler of the hive.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Drama Bee
Drama queen and Queen bee, joined on Queen.
Drama queen
A drama queen is someone who treats every minor setback as a crisis and makes sure everyone knows about it.
Queen bee
The queen bee is the single egg-laying female at the centre of a hive, and by extension the dominant woman in a social group.
How players did
Across 1,587 plays, 29% got the whole answer in one guess, 11% solved it without a miss, 17% got there after at least one wrong guess, 11% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 32% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on April 1, 2024, April 1, 2025 and April 1, 2026.