Doubled for Thursday, July 25, 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, 4, 5 and 8 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 5 letters and starts with M.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 3 words, the second is 2, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
Someone who walks the runway in larger sizes, then a hobby kit of balsa and glue.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Plus-Size Airplane
Plus-size model and Model airplane, joined on Model.
Plus-size model
A plus-size model is a fashion model who wears larger sizes than the industry's traditional norm.
Model airplane
A model airplane is a small replica aircraft built from a kit, some of them able to fly.
How players did
Across 1,005 plays, 9% got the whole answer in one guess, 5% solved it without a miss, 10% got there after at least one wrong guess, 35% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 41% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on July 25, 2024, July 25, 2025 and July 25, 2026.