Doubled for Wednesday, June 12, 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 6 words long, with 1, 4, 4, 7, 1 and 5 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 7 letters and starts with D.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 4 words, the second is 3, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
A momentous appointment with fate, then the girl group that launched Beyoncé.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
A Date With 'S Child
A date with destiny and Destiny's child, joined on Destiny.
A date with destiny
A date with destiny is a momentous event that seems fated to happen, the encounter that will decide everything.
Destiny's child
Destiny's Child was the American R&B girl group of the late 1990s and early 2000s from which Beyoncé went on to a solo career.
How players did
Across 1,483 plays, 32% got the whole answer in one guess, 12% solved it without a miss, 11% got there after at least one wrong guess, 31% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 13% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on June 12, 2024, June 12, 2025 and June 12, 2026.