Doubled for Sunday, October 13, 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 4 words long, with 4, 4, 2 and 7 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 4 letters and starts with H.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 2 words, the second is 3, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
Utterly solid, then somewhat deaf.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Rock Of Hearing
Rock hard and Hard of hearing, joined on Hard.
Rock hard
Rock hard means extremely hard or solid.
Hard of hearing
Hard of hearing is the polite term for being partly deaf.
How players did
Across 888 plays, 39% got the whole answer in one guess, 18% solved it without a miss, 15% got there after at least one wrong guess, 22% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 6% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on October 13, 2024 and October 13, 2025.