Doubled for Sunday, September 15, 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 7 words long, with 7, 3, 5, 4, 3, 5 and 4 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 5 letters and starts with S.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 6 words, the second is 2, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
Achieving two things at once, then a folk tale about tricking villagers into sharing.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Killing Two Birds With One Soup
Killing two birds with one stone and Stone soup, joined on Stone.
Killing two birds with one stone
Killing two birds with one stone is achieving two aims with a single action.
Stone soup
Stone Soup is the folk tale in which hungry travellers persuade suspicious villagers to contribute to a 'soup' that begins with only a stone.
How players did
Across 1,096 plays, 32% got the whole answer in one guess, 13% solved it without a miss, 18% got there after at least one wrong guess, 26% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 12% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on September 15, 2024, September 15, 2025 and September 15, 2026.