Doubled for Friday, October 18, 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 3, 3, 4 and 4 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 4 letters and starts with B.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 3 words, the second is 2, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
A performer playing every instrument at once, then a summer of practising in the woods ('this one time...').
The answer
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Reveal the answer
One Man Camp
One man band and Band camp, joined on Band.
One man band
A one-man band is a street performer who plays several instruments at once, and by extension anyone doing everything alone.
Band camp
Band camp is the summer camp at which school marching bands rehearse, immortalised by 'this one time, at band camp' in American Pie.
How players did
Across 943 plays, 42% got the whole answer in one guess, 15% solved it without a miss, 13% got there after at least one wrong guess, 21% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 8% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on October 18, 2024 and October 18, 2025.