Doubled for Thursday, December 5, 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 5 words long, with 4, 4, 2, 3 and 5 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 4 letters and starts with L.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 2 words, the second is 4, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
The person you pay rent to, then schoolboys stranded on an island.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Land Of The Flies
Landlord and Lord of the flies, joined on Lord.
Landlord
A landlord is the owner of a property who rents it out to tenants.
Lord of the flies
Lord of the Flies is William Golding's novel about schoolboys stranded on an island who descend into savagery.
How players did
Across 843 plays, 27% got the whole answer in one guess, 4% solved it without a miss, 16% got there after at least one wrong guess, 44% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 10% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on December 5, 2024 and December 5, 2025.