Doubled for Wednesday, September 4, 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, 7 and 3 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 7 letters and starts with C.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 2 words, the second is 2, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
An invisible barrier to promotion, then what spins above a bedroom.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Glass Fan
Glass ceiling and Ceiling fan, joined on Ceiling.
Glass ceiling
The glass ceiling is the invisible barrier that keeps women and minorities from rising to the top of organisations.
Ceiling fan
A ceiling fan is the fan mounted on a ceiling to stir the air in a room.
How players did
Across 1,104 plays, 56% got the whole answer in one guess, 17% solved it without a miss, 6% got there after at least one wrong guess, 9% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 12% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on September 4, 2024 and September 4, 2025.