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Puzzle #767: Jack Nicholson → Gal Gadot

Monday, September 21, 2026

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On Monday, September 21, 2026, the daily puzzle asked players to link Jack Nicholson and Gal Gadot. The two have never been credited in the same movie, so there's no one-move answer. But 9 actors have worked with both of them in their best-known films, so it can be done in just 2 moves.

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The shortest solution

Show the 2-move answer (spoiler)
  1. Jack Nicholson as Costello in The Departed (2006), which also stars Mark Wahlberg as Dignam.
  2. Mark Wahlberg as Holbrooke in Date Night (2010), alongside Gal Gadot as Natanya.

The full chain: Jack Nicholson → The Departed (2006) → Mark Wahlberg → Date Night (2010) → Gal Gadot.

Other ways to solve it

Show 3 more 2-move routes (spoilers)
  • Jack Nicholson → A Few Good Men (1992) → Tom Cruise → Knight and Day (2010) → Gal Gadot
  • Jack Nicholson → The Pledge (2001) → Robin Wright → Wonder Woman (2017) → Gal Gadot
  • Jack Nicholson → Mars Attacks! (1996) → Annette Bening → Death on the Nile (2022) → Gal Gadot

About Jack Nicholson

Born
April 22, 1937 in Manhattan, New York, USA
Film career
1960–2010
Widely seen films
50 (films with a sizeable audience on TMDB)

Best-known films, which are often the quickest places to start a chain:

About Gal Gadot

Born
April 30, 1985 in Petah Tikva, Israel
Film career
2009–2026
Widely seen films
20 (films with a sizeable audience on TMDB)

Best-known films, which are often the quickest places to start a chain: