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Saturday, 17 October 2026

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This page shows the answers to every daily puzzle of Saturday, 17 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.

405 rounds played across 8 games

Borderline Daily

That day’s board
47players
217 / 500median score
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Pakistanhardest border
305best, by eugene
Pakistan17 avg
Slovakia41 avg
Norway59 avg
Mozambique61 avg
Saudi Arabia34 avg

the real borderwhat players drew

Scores, previous 14 days

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Border Hop #37

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69players
93%got there
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77%on par
Germanymost named wrong country

🇭🇺 Hungary›🇦🇹 Austria›🇩🇪 Germany›🇫🇷 France›🇪🇸 Spain›🇵🇹 PortugalHungary to Portugal in 5 hops

a shortest routeother stepsline width: share of players

Results, previous 14 days

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Crossworld #36

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32solvers
3:43median time
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44%used no hint
Eritreamost given by a hint
🇰🇪Kenya🇸🇴Somalia🇪🇹Ethiopia🇺🇬Uganda🇪🇷Eritrea🇩🇯Djibouti🇨🇫Central African Republic🇸🇩Sudan🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea🇨🇲Cameroon🇹🇩Chad🇳🇪Niger

Solving times, previous 14 days

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Only solved grids are kept, so there is no count of those who gave up.

Worldoku #34

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17solvers
7:56median time
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35%used no check
8 / 36squares given
>>>>×××

chain>greater area×no border

Solving times, previous 14 days

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Only solved grids are kept, so there is no count of those who gave up.

48players
4%cleared all ten
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3 / 10median score
8% righthardest card
  1. In a year, the average person drinks more litres of...226 United States 🇺🇸vs🇨🇦 Canada 50.1865%
  2. More is spent on health per person in...6,226 Germany 🇩🇪vs🇨🇿 Czechia 2,43186%
  3. The internet is faster in...335 Chile 🇨🇱vs🇧🇪 Belgium 1418%
  4. A larger share of rated chess players are women in...16.3 South Korea 🇰🇷vs🇳🇿 New Zealand 10.459%
  5. In a year, the average person in Thailand eats more...7.42 Thailand 🇹🇭vs🇹🇭 Thailand 3.4233%
  6. There are more public holidays in...19 Colombia 🇨🇴vs🇪🇸 Spain 1236%
  7. There are more hospital beds per person in...6.56 Ukraine 🇺🇦vs🇮🇹 Italy 3.1441%
  8. A Big Mac costs more in...6.22 Poland 🇵🇱vs🇭🇺 Hungary 5.358%
  9. In a year, the average person eats more kilograms of...45.17 Bolivia 🇧🇴vs🇯🇲 Jamaica 36.3441%
  10. People travel further by train in...1,610 Switzerland 🇨🇭vs🇫🇷 France 1,27053%

Cards right, previous 14 days

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Letter Pairs #33

23games started
52%finished
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6 wordsmedian, easy
9 wordsmedian, hard

Easy

AIASBAEMEPKILINARDSITYWI

The computer, 5 words: feasibility · nail · baking · wizard · replacement

Best, 6 words, by Pezizo: bailing · windward · kitty · signage · empanadas · epee

Most played: empty (4) · kiwi (4) · episode (3) · bananas (2) · bard (2) · kitty (2) · lizard (2) · acai (1)

Hard

AVFEHSKWNDPORBRITRWPYCZZ

The computer, 5 words: triptychs · stewpond · fezzy · laverbread · kwela

Best, 7 words: guzzle · triptychs · dewpoint · overbound · backwards · few · ave

Most played: ave (1) · average (1) · awkward (1) · backwards (1) · boycott (1) · carb (1) · cowpea (1) · cowpoke (1)

Words used, previous 14 days · easy

Median

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Each dot is a finished game

Hour finished, UTC

21players
62%draws hit exactly
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390 / 500median score
Draw 4hardest draw
6407579693
  1. 75 × 9 = 675
  2. 9 + 6 = 15
  3. 15 × 7 = 105
  4. 105 ÷ 3 = 35
  5. 675 − 35 = 640
Draw 133% hit
3831585057
  1. 5 − 1 = 4
  2. 50 + 4 = 54
  3. 54 × 7 = 378
  4. 378 + 5 = 383
Draw 294% hit
5077387975
  1. 8 × 7 = 56
  2. 56 × 9 = 504
  3. 504 + 3 = 507
Draw 371% hit
6461481255
  1. 8 + 1 = 9
  2. 5 × 4 = 20
  3. 20 − 1 = 19
  4. 25 + 9 = 34
  5. 34 × 19 = 646
Draw 431% hit
907491035010
  1. 4 + 3 = 7
  2. 10 × 9 = 90
  3. 90 × 10 = 900
  4. 900 + 7 = 907
Draw 587% hit

Scores, previous 14 days

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Ballpark #5

159players
45%circles on target
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250 ptsmedian score
Church of the Holy Sepulchrehardest place

Bathwhere the crowd puts iton targetmissed45 outside this view, up to 17,076 km away · median miss 258 km short

Scores, previous 14 days

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