Doubled for Thursday, August 8, 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 3, 5 and 4 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 5 letters and starts with D.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 2 words, the second is 2, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
A pleasant reverie, then the best possible line-up.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Day Team
Daydream and Dream team, joined on Dream.
Daydream
A daydream is a pleasant reverie, a mind wandering off while awake.
Dream team
A dream team is the ideal line-up of people for a job or a sport, the name given to the star-studded 1992 US Olympic basketball squad.
How players did
Across 1,258 plays, 59% got the whole answer in one guess, 11% solved it without a miss, 9% got there after at least one wrong guess, 17% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 4% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on August 8, 2024, August 8, 2025 and August 8, 2026.