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26 August 2026

Puzzle sentence and answer

The sentence

After four straight weekends on top and two billion dollars of tickets, Tom Holland's Spider-Man now nears Titanic.

Show the five-word answer
TomHolland'sSpider-MannearsTitanic

Kept 'billion'? Fair. Two billion dollars is a lot of tickets. But the money is the score, not the story. The story is the ship. Titanic sits at number five of all time, and Spider-Man is about 44 million dollars behind it. Last September Tom Holland hit his head doing a stunt, and everyone stopped making the film for a week, because nobody wanted to carry on without him. Eleven months later it is the biggest film of the year. Titanic was made by James Cameron. When the Avengers film made more money than Titanic in 2019, Cameron posted a drawing of his own ship sinking, and wrote that an iceberg sank the real Titanic, but it took the Avengers to sink his.

Every word, accounted for

Afterglue. never in the answer
foura count. change it and the story is the same
straightgoes with the weekends
weekendswhen. not what happened
onglue. never in the answer
topwhere it has been sitting for a month
andglue. never in the answer
twoa count. change it and the story is the same
billiona lot, and still not the news
dollarsthe money is the score
ofglue. never in the answer
ticketshow the money arrived
Tomhis first name. names stay whole
Holland'ssays which Spider-Man. three men have played him
Spider-Manthe star of the whole thing. stays
nowa little empty word
nearswhat is happening right now. stays
Titanicthe ship it is catching. stays
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