Doubled for Wednesday, June 19, 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 8, 3, 5, 2 and 7 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 5 letters and starts with W.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 3 words, the second is 3, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
Wasting effort on something already solved, then a game show where contestants buy a vowel.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Reinvent The Of Fortune
Reinvent the wheel and Wheel of fortune, joined on Wheel.
Reinvent the wheel
To reinvent the wheel is to waste effort creating something that already exists and works perfectly well.
Wheel of fortune
Wheel of Fortune is the long-running television game show in which contestants spin a giant wheel and guess letters in a hidden phrase.
How players did
Across 1,395 plays, 37% got the whole answer in one guess, 11% solved it without a miss, 12% got there after at least one wrong guess, 14% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 26% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on June 19, 2024, June 19, 2025 and June 19, 2026.