Doubled for Monday, September 2, 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 5, 5 and 5 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 5 letters and starts with F.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 2 words, the second is 2, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
A 1970s dance craze, then a strange, hallucinatory experience.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Disco Dream
Disco fever and Fever dream, joined on Fever.
Disco fever
Disco fever was the 1970s craze for disco music and dancing, at its height around Saturday Night Fever.
Fever dream
A fever dream is a vivid, strange, disjointed dream of the kind that comes with a high temperature, and anything that feels that surreal.
How players did
Across 1,162 plays, 24% got the whole answer in one guess, 14% solved it without a miss, 19% got there after at least one wrong guess, 31% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 13% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on September 2, 2024, September 2, 2025 and September 2, 2026.