Doubled for Wednesday, July 3, 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 4, 2, 4 and 4 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 4 letters and starts with T.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 3 words, the second is 2, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
An audiobook in its cassette era, then a parasite that lives in the gut.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Book On Worm
Book on tape and Tapeworm, joined on Tape.
Book on tape
A book on tape is an audiobook, from the era when they came on cassettes.
Tapeworm
A tapeworm is the long, flat parasitic worm that lives in the intestines of animals and people.
How players did
Across 1,396 plays, 48% got the whole answer in one guess, 10% solved it without a miss, 17% got there after at least one wrong guess, 17% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 9% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on July 3, 2024, July 3, 2025 and July 3, 2026.