Doubled for Saturday, April 20, 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 4, 4 and 4 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 4 letters and starts with T.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 2 words, the second is 2, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
When the sea reaches furthest up the beach, then laundry capsules that made the news for the wrong reasons.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
High Pods
High tide and Tide pods, joined on Tide.
High tide
High tide is the point at which the sea reaches its highest level on the shore, twice a day.
Tide pods
Tide Pods are the brand of single-dose laundry detergent capsules, notorious for the viral 'challenge' that involved eating them.
How players did
Across 1,699 plays, 29% got the whole answer in one guess, 19% solved it without a miss, 19% got there after at least one wrong guess, 21% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 11% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on April 20, 2024, April 20, 2025 and April 20, 2026.