Doubled for Sunday, July 7, 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 8, 3 and 4 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 3 letters and starts with P.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 2 words, the second is 2, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
A single man's apartment, then a stir-fried noodle dish.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Bachelor Thai
Bachelor pad and Pad thai, joined on Pad.
Bachelor pad
A bachelor pad is the apartment of a single man, stereotypically sparse, untidy and built around a television.
Pad thai
Pad thai is the Thai stir-fried rice-noodle dish with egg, peanuts, bean sprouts and lime.
How players did
Across 1,187 plays, 19% got the whole answer in one guess, 2% solved it without a miss, 5% got there after at least one wrong guess, 55% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 20% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on July 7, 2024, July 7, 2025 and July 7, 2026.