Doubled for Sunday, November 10, 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 5, 4 and 6 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 2 words, the second is 2, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
An Arctic predator, then a stock exchange in decline.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Polar Market
Polar bear and Bear market, joined on Bear.
Polar bear
The polar bear is the white Arctic bear that hunts seals from the sea ice.
Bear market
A bear market is a period of falling share prices and pessimism, the opposite of a bull market.
How players did
Across 860 plays, 42% got the whole answer in one guess, 12% solved it without a miss, 4% got there after at least one wrong guess, 27% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 14% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on November 10, 2024 and November 10, 2025.