Doubled for Sunday, October 20, 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 7, 7 and 5 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
A dungeon of racks and thumbscrews, then a string quartet.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Torture Music
Torture chamber and Chamber music, joined on Chamber.
Torture chamber
A torture chamber is a room fitted out for torture, the dungeon of a castle.
Chamber music
Chamber music is classical music for a small group of instruments, such as a string quartet, originally played in a room rather than a hall.
How players did
Across 790 plays, 14% got the whole answer in one guess, 7% solved it without a miss, 5% got there after at least one wrong guess, 49% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 26% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on October 20, 2024 and October 20, 2025.