Doubled for Wednesday, December 18, 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 6, 5 and 4 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 5 letters and starts with F.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 2 words, the second is 2, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
A sleepover battle with feathers, then the film whose first rule is not to talk about it.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Pillow Club
Pillow fight and Fight club, joined on Fight.
Pillow fight
A pillow fight is the sleepover battle in which everyone whacks each other with pillows.
Fight club
Fight Club is the novel and film about an underground bare-knuckle society, whose first rule is that you do not talk about it.
How players did
Across 800 plays, 74% got the whole answer in one guess, 6% solved it without a miss, 7% got there after at least one wrong guess, 7% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 7% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on December 18, 2024 and December 18, 2025.