Doubled for Saturday, June 15, 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 3 words long, with 5, 5 and 8 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 5 letters and starts with M.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 2 words, the second is 2, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
Loud guitar music, then what you walk through at the airport.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Heavy Detector
Heavy metal and Metal detector, joined on Metal.
Heavy metal
Heavy metal is the loud, distorted, guitar-driven rock music of bands like Black Sabbath and Metallica.
Metal detector
A metal detector is the device that senses metal, whether the airport archway or the hobbyist's wand swept over a beach.
How players did
Across 1,346 plays, 31% got the whole answer in one guess, 11% solved it without a miss, 13% got there after at least one wrong guess, 21% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 23% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on June 15, 2024, June 15, 2025 and June 15, 2026.