Doubled for Thursday, June 6, 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 5, 4, 4, 2 and 7 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 4 letters and starts with F.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 3 words, the second is 3, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
An optimist's outlook, then nonsense, or a sandwich meat.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Glass Half Of Bologna
Glass half full and Full of bologna, joined on Full.
Glass half full
Glass half full is the optimist's view: the same glass a pessimist calls half empty.
Full of bologna
Full of bologna (or baloney) means talking nonsense; bologna is also the cheap sliced lunch meat the insult is named after.
How players did
Across 1,755 plays, 24% got the whole answer in one guess, 9% solved it without a miss, 33% got there after at least one wrong guess, 18% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 15% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on June 6, 2024, June 6, 2025 and June 6, 2026.