Doubled for Tuesday, September 3, 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 9, 5 and 6 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 5 letters and starts with R.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 2 words, the second is 2, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
A fast-fire quiz segment, then ten, fifty or a hundred.
The answer
Stuck, or want to check? Opening this reveals the whole answer.
Reveal the answer
Lightning Number
Lightning round and Round number, joined on Round.
Lightning round
A lightning round is the rapid-fire segment of a quiz in which questions come one after another against the clock.
Round number
A round number is a whole number ending in zero, an approximation that is easy to work with.
How players did
Across 1,058 plays, 5% got the whole answer in one guess, 5% solved it without a miss, 8% got there after at least one wrong guess, 62% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 20% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on September 3, 2024, September 3, 2025 and September 3, 2026.