Doubled for Friday, August 9, 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 6, 4, 2 and 9 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 4 letters and starts with B.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 2 words, the second is 3, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
A women's gymnastics apparatus, then a sweet treat in a wrapper.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Uneven Of Chocolate
Uneven bars and Bars of chocolate, joined on Bars.
Uneven bars
The uneven bars are the women's gymnastics apparatus of two horizontal bars set at different heights.
Bars of chocolate
Bars of chocolate are chocolate moulded into flat blocks and sold in wrappers.
How players did
Across 1,148 plays, 24% got the whole answer in one guess, 15% solved it without a miss, 8% got there after at least one wrong guess, 33% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 21% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on August 9, 2024, August 9, 2025 and August 9, 2026.