Doubled for Saturday, September 7, 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 8, 7 and 6 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 7 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 big song-and-dance production in Manhattan, then a party game with one seat too few.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Broadway Chairs
Broadway musical and Musical chairs, joined on Musical.
Broadway musical
A Broadway musical is a stage musical produced in New York's theatre district.
Musical chairs
Musical chairs is the party game in which players circle a row of chairs while music plays and scramble for a seat when it stops, with one chair fewer than players.
How players did
Across 1,455 plays, 67% got the whole answer in one guess, 13% solved it without a miss, 9% got there after at least one wrong guess, 7% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 4% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on September 7, 2024, September 7, 2025 and September 7, 2026.