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Friday, 16 October 2026
This page shows the answers to every daily puzzle of Friday, 16 October 2026. If you want to play that day from a game’s archive first, use Hide solutions: the games you already played stay shown.
461 rounds played across 8 games
Borderline Daily55 playedNot played
Border Hop71 playedNot played
Crossworld43 playedNot played
Worldoku22 playedNot played
Letter Pairs19 finishedNot played
Morov44 playedNot played
Spot On31 playedNot played
Ballpark176 playedNot played
55players
340 / 500median score
…
United States of Americahardest border
474best, by Oio
the real borderwhat players drew
Scores, previous 14 days
Median
2112
2733
2174
3535
2086
2697
3098
3099
21110
28511
26312
32013
19014
12215
Day
16 October, by time of day
Each dot is a player
max 476median 340min 110 0h6h12h18h24h
Hour finished, UTC
71players
87%got there
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65%on par
Costa Ricamost named wrong country
🇧🇿 Belize›🇲🇽 Mexico›🇺🇸 United States›🇨🇦 Canada›🇩🇰 DenmarkBelize to Denmark in 4 hops
a shortest routeother stepsline width: share of players
Results, previous 14 days
Players
832
523
624
715
656
507
548
519
4010
4211
4312
6113
8414
6115
Day
16 October, by time of day
Each dot is a player
0h6h12h18h24h
Hour finished, UTC
43solvers
2:40median time
…
56%used no hint
Ghanamost given by a hint
🇪🇭Western Sahara🇲🇦MoroccoSaint Lucia🇲🇷Mauritania🇩🇿Algeria🇱🇾Libya🇸🇳Senegal🇲🇱Mali🇬🇭Ghana🇬🇳Guinea🇱🇷Liberia🇨🇮Côte d'Ivoire
Solving times, previous 14 days
Median
4:362
2:563
4:434
2:505
1:096
5:147
4:198
4:039
5:0910
2:1211
3:5412
3:0213
5:4814
7:1615
Day
16 October, by time of day
Each dot is a solver
slowest 13:52median 2:40fastest 0:38 0h6h12h18h24h
Hour finished, UTC
Only solved grids are kept, so there is no count of those who gave up.
22solvers
8:19median time
…
27%used no check
7 / 36squares given
>>>>×××
×no borderlandlocked>greater area
Solving times, previous 14 days
Median
7:462
14:373
7:004
7:205
10:056
10:277
9:068
12:219
7:4310
5:1711
7:3012
11:4713
9:2514
9:2615
Day
16 October, by time of day
Each dot is a solver
slowest 35:20median 8:19fastest 1:35 0h6h12h18h24h
Hour finished, UTC
Only solved grids are kept, so there is no count of those who gave up.
44players
16%cleared all ten
…
5 / 10median score
25% righthardest card
- In a year, the average person eats more kilograms of...14.76 Cameroon 🇨🇲vs🇰🇷 South Korea 6.5661%
- A larger share of people are over 65 in...29.78 Japan 🇯🇵vs🇵🇭 Philippines 5.4998%
- Where did "DtMF" by Bad Bunny get more listens per person?1.48 Peru 🇵🇪vs🇭🇺 Hungary 0.2980%
- The average year is warmer in...27.3 Nigeria 🇳🇬vs🇪🇸 Spain 13.189%
- In a year, the average person drinks more beer in...108 Ireland 🇮🇪vs🇳🇴 Norway 58.7693%
- More of the land is farmed in...59.4 Armenia 🇦🇲vs🇧🇷 Brazil 28.3330%
- A larger share of people live in cities in...89.02 Turkiye 🇹🇷vs🇮🇩 Indonesia 58.1241%
- There are more chess grandmasters per person in...3.04 Czechia 🇨🇿vs🇸🇪 Sweden 2.3743%
- In a year, the average person eats more lamb and goat in...11.54 New Zealand 🇳🇿vs🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates 8.4956%
- In a year, the average person in Germany eats more...13.52 Germany 🇩🇪vs🇩🇪 Germany 9.9325%
Cards right, previous 14 days
Median
52
33
64
5.55
56
67
78
39
410
4.511
312
313
614
215
Day
16 October, by time of day
Each dot is a player
max 10median 5min 2 0h6h12h18h24h
Hour finished, UTC
Letter Pairs #32
35games started
54%finished
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7 wordsmedian, easy
9 wordsmedian, hard
Easy
ANCECKEDIFKEMENOPUROSCUE
The computer, 5 words: knocked · romance · pursue · scheme · if
Best, 5 words: rocked · mean · scene · pueblo · notify
Most played: if (7) · me (5) · rocked (5) · mean (4) · pucked (4) · puck (3) · puckered (3) · rescue (3)
Hard
DNELHSIBKUPAPORFSWURVUYN
The computer, 7 words: pauropod · lamellibranchs · swarf · kue · syn · vug · hudna
Best, 7 words: pourparlers · swell · colocynths · backup · farfetchedness · alibi · revue
Most played: alibi (1) · backup (1) · colocynths (1) · dwarf (1) · farfetchedness (1) · gayness (1) · haiku (1) · madness (1)
Words used, previous 14 days · easy
Median
6.52
83
7.54
7.55
7.56
77
78
79
6.510
711
612
6.513
714
715
Day
16 October, by time of day · easy
Each dot is a finished game
most 12median 7fewest 5 0h6h12h18h24h
Hour finished, UTC
31players
60%draws hit exactly
…
470 / 500median score
Draw 5hardest draw
3882475986
- 75 − 9 = 66
- 66 × 6 = 396
- 396 − 8 = 388
223250557510
- 50 − 5 = 45
- 45 × 5 = 225
- 225 − 2 = 223
1183415759
- 3 − 1 = 2
- 9 × 5 = 45
- 75 − 2 = 73
- 73 + 45 = 118
8992419425
- 9 × 4 = 36
- 36 × 25 = 900
- 900 − 1 = 899
394378451
- 7 + 3 = 10
- 8 × 5 = 40
- 40 − 1 = 39
- 39 × 10 = 390
- 390 + 4 = 394
Scores, previous 14 days
Median
40012
28013
45014
46015
Day
16 October, by time of day
Each dot is a player who finished all five
max 500median 470min 130 0h6h12h18h24h
Hour finished, UTC
Ballpark #4
176players
44%circles on target
…
300 ptsmedian score
Torres del Paine National Parkhardest place
Providencewhere the crowd puts iton targetmissed40 outside this view, up to 17,098 km away · median miss 699 km short
Scores, previous 14 days
Median
8513
25014
1,51015
Day
16 October, by time of day
Each dot is a player who placed all five
max 3,450median 300min 0 0h6h12h18h24h
Hour finished, UTC