Friday, October 9, 2026

Sortie! answer for October 9, 2026

Oct 9’s Sortie! hints

Hint 1

The six prompts today cover movies, science and nature, video games and geography. One well-known name per prompt is all you need.

Hint 2

Read the rule under each prompt: 5 reward the bigger number today, 1 reward the smaller or closer one.

Hint 3

For the first prompt, the best answer starts with “T” and beats the runner-up by 1 RT %.

Reveal the answer

1. Name a movie with Dwayne Johnson. — Best: Tooth Fairy (17 RT %); also strong: Baywatch (18 RT %).
2. Name a chemical element. — Best: Zirconium (22 Scrabble); also strong: Praseodymium (22 Scrabble).
3. Write a number from 1 to 100. — Best: 88 (8 Roman letters); also strong: 38 (7 Roman letters).
4. Name a planet. — Best: Neptune (60,182 days); also strong: Uranus (30,688 days).
5. Name a Mario Kart character. — Best: Cataquack (2,025 debut year); also strong: Cheep Cheep (2,025 debut year).
6. Name a U.S. state capital. — Best: Phoenix (1,608,139 pop); also strong: Austin (961,855 pop).

Why this is the answer (spoilers)

This daily ran six prompts, each scored by a measured rule rather than by rarity. On “Name a movie with Dwayne Johnson.”, the winning answer was Tooth Fairy at 17 RT %, ahead of Baywatch at 18 RT %. On “Name a chemical element.”, the winning answer was Zirconium at 22 Scrabble, ahead of Praseodymium at 22 Scrabble. On “Write a number from 1 to 100.”, the winning answer was 88 at 8 Roman letters, ahead of 38 at 7 Roman letters. Naming mattered too: Tooth Fairy is also accepted as The Tooth Fairy, which helps if you only know the short form. The counterintuitive one was “Name a movie with Dwayne Johnson.”, where lower rotten tomatoes score, the higher you fly — so Tooth Fairy outscored the more famous picks. Magnitudes and sources are the game's own, as listed in its archive notes for this date.

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