Doubled for Tuesday, April 23, 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, 5, 5, 2 and 7 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 5 letters and starts with B.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 3 words, the second is 3, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
A blended family from a 1970s sitcom, then what you buy at the supermarket by the hand.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
The Brady Of Bananas
The brady bunch and Bunch of bananas, joined on Bunch.
The brady bunch
The Brady Bunch was the 1970s American sitcom about a widower with three sons who marries a woman with three daughters.
Bunch of bananas
A bunch of bananas is the cluster of bananas joined at the stem, the way they are sold in the shop.
How players did
Across 1,943 plays, 65% got the whole answer in one guess, 9% solved it without a miss, 12% got there after at least one wrong guess, 9% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 5% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on April 23, 2024, April 23, 2025 and April 23, 2026.