Doubled for Thursday, January 2, 2025
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, 4 and 7 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 4 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 school exhibition of experiments, then a heads-up before consequences.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Science Warning
Science fair and Fair warning, joined on Fair.
Science fair
A science fair is the school event where students display experiments on trifold boards and explain them to judges.
Fair warning
A fair warning is a clear advance notice given so that no one can claim they were not told.
How players did
Across 747 plays, 43% got the whole answer in one guess, 11% solved it without a miss, 9% got there after at least one wrong guess, 18% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 20% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on January 2, 2025 and January 2, 2026.