Doubled for Monday, January 6, 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 5, 5 and 4 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 5 letters and starts with R.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 2 words, the second is 2, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
A tournament where everyone plays everyone, then an outlaw in green.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Round Hood
Round robin and Robin hood, joined on Robin.
Round robin
A round robin is a tournament in which every competitor plays every other one.
Robin hood
Robin Hood is the outlaw of Sherwood Forest who robbed from the rich to give to the poor.
How players did
Across 740 plays, 40% got the whole answer in one guess, 13% solved it without a miss, 6% got there after at least one wrong guess, 29% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 11% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on January 6, 2025 and January 6, 2026.