Doubled for Sunday, July 14, 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 6, 5 and 4 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 5 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 bathroom roll, then forms and filing.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Toilet Work
Toilet paper and Paperwork, joined on Paper.
Toilet paper
Toilet paper is the roll of soft tissue kept beside the toilet.
Paperwork
Paperwork is the routine forms, records and documents that a job or a bureaucracy requires.
How players did
Across 1,093 plays, 7% got the whole answer in one guess, 4% solved it without a miss, 5% got there after at least one wrong guess, 40% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 44% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on July 14, 2024, July 14, 2025 and July 14, 2026.