Doubled for Wednesday, July 24, 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, 7 and 4 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 7 letters and starts with G.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 2 words, the second is 2, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
Hecklers in the cheap seats, then a wall of framed pictures.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Peanut Wall
Peanut gallery and Gallery wall, joined on Gallery.
Peanut gallery
The peanut gallery is the cheapest seats in a theatre, and by extension any group of hecklers offering unwanted comments.
Gallery wall
A gallery wall is a wall hung with an arranged collection of framed pictures.
How players did
Across 1,959 plays, 52% got the whole answer in one guess, 11% solved it without a miss, 12% got there after at least one wrong guess, 20% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 6% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on July 24, 2024, December 25, 2024, July 24, 2025, December 25, 2025 and July 24, 2026.