Doubled for Wednesday, November 6, 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 3, 3 and 6 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 3 letters and starts with H.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 2 words, the second is 2, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
A music genre born in the Bronx, then a chalk grid you jump through on one foot.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Hip Scotch
Hip hop and Hopscotch, joined on Hop.
Hip hop
Hip hop is the music and culture of rapping, DJing, breakdancing and graffiti that began in the Bronx in the 1970s.
Hopscotch
Hopscotch is the playground game of hopping through a numbered grid chalked on the pavement.
How players did
Across 854 plays, 10% got the whole answer in one guess, 2% solved it without a miss, 8% got there after at least one wrong guess, 62% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 18% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on November 6, 2024 and November 6, 2025.