Hints

Plot-hole #226 · October 31, 2026

Difficulty: Hard · 62% of 208 players solved it.

Hint 1 — One-word hint

"Overwhelmed"

Hint 2 — The Setup

A modern American city suddenly under attack.

Hint 3 — The Character

A dockworker tries to protect his children during the chaos.

Hint 4 — The Conflict

Enormous alien machines emerge from underground and start vaporizing people.

Hint 5 — The Twist

The machines were buried on Earth long ago and are now activated.

Final hint (names names)

Tom Cruise runs from alien tripods in this Spielberg adaptation of H.G. Wells.

The answer

War of the Worlds (2005)