Doubled for Monday, August 5, 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 4, 4 and 5 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 4 letters and starts with S.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 2 words, the second is 2, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
Washing-up liquid, then a melodramatic daytime serial.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Dish Opera
Dish soap and Soap opera, joined on Soap.
Dish soap
Dish soap is the liquid detergent used for washing dishes by hand.
Soap opera
A soap opera is the long-running, melodramatic television serial, originally sponsored by soap manufacturers on daytime radio.
How players did
Across 1,189 plays, 39% got the whole answer in one guess, 9% solved it without a miss, 12% got there after at least one wrong guess, 32% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 8% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on August 5, 2024, August 5, 2025 and August 5, 2026.