Doubled for Monday, February 17, 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 4 words long, with 3, 2, 4 and 5 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 4 letters and starts with T.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 3 words, the second is 2, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
No minutes left, then how quickly the years seem to pass.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Out Of Flies
Out of time and Time flies, joined on Time.
Out of time
To be out of time is to have no time left.
Time flies
'Time flies' is the observation that time seems to pass very quickly.
How players did
Across 629 plays, 10% got the whole answer in one guess, 8% solved it without a miss, 15% got there after at least one wrong guess, 48% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 19% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on February 17, 2025 and February 17, 2026.