Doubled for Sunday, February 9, 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, 4 and 3 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 4 letters and starts with B.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 2 words, the second is 2, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
The NFL's championship game, then ten pins at the end of a lane.
The answer
Stuck, or want to check? Opening this reveals the whole answer.
Reveal the answer
Super Ing
Super bowl and Bowling, joined on Bowl.
Super bowl
The Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League, the biggest television event of the American year.
Bowling
Bowling is the game of rolling a heavy ball down a lane at ten pins.
How players did
Across 685 plays, 64% got the whole answer in one guess, 9% solved it without a miss, 8% got there after at least one wrong guess, 16% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 3% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on February 9, 2025 and February 9, 2026.