Doubled for Saturday, August 31, 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 6, 3 and 5 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 3 letters and starts with M.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 2 words, the second is 2, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
A suburban parent with a minivan, then unfashionably high-waisted denim.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Soccer Jeans
Soccer mom and Mom jeans, joined on Mom.
Soccer mom
A soccer mom is the stereotype of a suburban mother who spends her time ferrying children to sports practice in a minivan.
Mom jeans
Mom jeans are the high-waisted, roomy, tapered jeans once mocked as unfashionable and since revived.
How players did
Across 1,232 plays, 60% got the whole answer in one guess, 14% solved it without a miss, 6% got there after at least one wrong guess, 13% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 7% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on August 31, 2024, August 31, 2025 and August 31, 2026.