Doubled for Saturday, August 17, 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 5, 5, 5 and 4 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 5 letters and starts with P.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 2 words, the second is 3, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
A facility that generates electricity, then eating mostly vegetables and grains.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Power -Based Diet
Power plant and Plant-based diet, joined on Plant.
Power plant
A power plant is an industrial facility that generates electricity.
Plant-based diet
A plant-based diet is one built mainly on vegetables, grains, legumes and fruit, with little or no animal produce.
How players did
Across 1,017 plays, 4% got the whole answer in one guess, 3% solved it without a miss, 9% got there after at least one wrong guess, 54% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 29% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on August 17, 2024, August 17, 2025 and August 17, 2026.