Doubled for Thursday, April 18, 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 7, 4, 3 and 6 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 4 letters and starts with A.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 2 words, the second is 3, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
Karate, judo and the like, then glue, glitter and construction paper.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Martial And Crafts
Martial arts and Arts and crafts, joined on Arts.
Martial arts
Martial arts are the codified fighting disciplines such as karate, judo, taekwondo and kung fu.
Arts and crafts
Arts and crafts is the catch-all for hands-on creative hobbies: painting, pottery, knitting, and the glue-and-glitter projects of childhood.
How players did
Across 1,548 plays, 34% got the whole answer in one guess, 3% solved it without a miss, 18% got there after at least one wrong guess, 34% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 11% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on April 18, 2024, April 18, 2025 and April 18, 2026.