Doubled for Wednesday, April 17, 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 5 words long, with 3, 2, 3, 4 and 6 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 4 letters and starts with W.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 4 words, the second is 2, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
An unnoticed observer, then the home of American finance.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Fly On The Street
Fly on the wall and Wall street, joined on Wall.
Fly on the wall
A fly on the wall is an unnoticed observer of a private scene: 'I'd love to be a fly on the wall at that meeting'.
Wall street
Wall Street is the street in lower Manhattan that gives its name to the American financial industry as a whole.
How players did
Across 2,385 plays, 58% got the whole answer in one guess, 10% solved it without a miss, 18% got there after at least one wrong guess, 10% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 4% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on April 17, 2024, April 17, 2025 and April 17, 2026.