Only Connect quiz expert shares mind-boggling puzzle – can you solve what links these ten clues together?
ONLY Connect’s question editor, Jack Waley-Cohen, has shared a few brain-teasers for fans to tackle – can you spot the link?
Victoria Coren Mitchell fronts the challenging BBC Two quiz show, which usually leaves viewers in a muddle.
Out of all the TV game shows that have graced our screens throughout the years, there is no doubt that one of the hardest is BBC Two‘s Only Connect.
The show’s format sees contestants summoning their brainpower to determine what links various clues together, using hints which can seem incredibly obscure.
Jack shared his Only Connect challenge with the i newspaper and the questions all take inspiration from one specific round from the hit BBC series.
In true Only Connect style, one is tasked with finding the link that connects each of the clues, as well as working out what would come next in the sequence.
Are you up for the challenge? Here are Jack’s ten tricky puzzles:
- st, nd, rd
- 13-19, One of the X-Men, Trained Japanese assassin
- Elephants, Diplodocus and Triceratops, Diplodocus
- 7 in Ireland, 6 in Russia, 5 in France
- January 10th-25th, February 6th-25th, March 13th-8th
- That place, This place, Before
- Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Bale
- Close window, Cut, Redo
- Parietal, Clavicles, Patellae
- Why Berillium? Why Carbon? Why Gold
On the surface, some of these questions look impossible to work out, but most of them are more straightforward than they first seem.
Example: The first one might look like random letters at first glance, but try putting numbers in front of the letters to see if they start looking more familiar.
Once you’ve figured the first one out, working out what comes next should be pretty easy.
Give yourself time to think carefully about each one, and see how many you can answer – you might shock yourself.
The solutions are below, so if you’re still trying to working the questions out, do not scroll any further.
- th – the link is 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th.
- Marine tortoises – the link is ways to describe each word of ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’
- Blue whale – the link is the sequence of specimens in the Natural History Museum’s Hintze Hall
- 4 in the USA – the link is years of presidential terms (any country with a 4-year term is correct)
- April 1st-12th – the numbers are the positions of the first and last letters in the alphabet for each month (A is 1, L is 12)
- About – the clues indicate ‘There, Here, Ere…’, taking away the first letter each time
- Ben Affleck – the link is the order in which they played Batman
- Undo – they are all typical keyboard shortcuts for Ctrl + W, X, and Y, so Z is undo
- Phalanges – they are scientific names for bones found in Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
- Why Selenium? – the chemical symbols for the elements spell because – Be, C, Au, and then Se for Selenium
How many did you get right? and could you be the next Only Connect champ? If so, try the puzzle HERE, which left contestants baffled on the show.
Only Connect airs on Mondays on BBC Two and is available to stream on iPlayer.
