Doubled for Thursday, May 16, 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, 5, 4 and 4 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 5 letters and starts with G.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 2 words, the second is 3, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
Four older women sharing a house in Miami, then infamous spring-break videos.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Golden Gone Wild
Golden girls and Girls gone wild, joined on Girls.
Golden girls
The Golden Girls was the sitcom about four older women sharing a house in Miami, still in constant reruns.
Girls gone wild
Girls Gone Wild was the video series that filmed young women at spring-break parties, sold through late-night infomercials.
How players did
Across 1,723 plays, 33% got the whole answer in one guess, 9% solved it without a miss, 12% got there after at least one wrong guess, 32% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 14% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on May 16, 2024, May 16, 2025 and May 16, 2026.