Doubled for Friday, November 22, 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 S.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 2 words, the second is 2, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
The bus between terminals, then what you hit over a badminton net.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Airport Cocks
Airport shuttle and Shuttlecocks, joined on Shuttle.
Airport shuttle
An airport shuttle is the bus that runs between an airport and its car parks, hotels or the city.
Shuttlecocks
Shuttlecocks are the feathered cones hit back and forth in badminton.
How players did
Across 840 plays, 20% got the whole answer in one guess, 19% solved it without a miss, 5% got there after at least one wrong guess, 27% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 29% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on November 22, 2024 and November 22, 2025.