Doubled for Saturday, May 11, 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 6, 4, 3 and 4 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 4 letters and starts with P.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 2 words, the second is 3, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
People who play a racket sport for a living, then the two columns of a decision list.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Tennis And Cons
Tennis pros and Pros and cons, joined on Pros.
Tennis pros
Tennis pros are professional tennis players, or the coaches at a club who give lessons.
Pros and cons
Pros and cons are the arguments for and against something, the two columns you write out before making a decision.
How players did
Across 1,446 plays, 24% got the whole answer in one guess, 4% solved it without a miss, 17% got there after at least one wrong guess, 33% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 22% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on May 11, 2024, May 11, 2025 and May 11, 2026.