Saturday, October 17, 2026
Sortie! answer for October 17, 2026
Oct 17’s Sortie! hints
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Reveal the answer
2. Name an animal. — Best: Mosquitoes (760,000 deaths); also strong: Humans (600,000 deaths).
3. Name a game played with a standard deck of cards. — Best: Thirty-one (1,440 year); also strong: Noddy (1,589 year).
4. Name a song that won Record of the Year at the Grammy Awards. — Best: Luther (2,026 year); also strong: Not Like Us (2,025 year).
5. Name a current cereal brand. — Best: Cranberry Almond Crunch (38 Scrabble); also strong: Honey Bunches of Oats (34 Scrabble).
6. Name a country. — Best: Papua New Guinea (845 languages); also strong: Indonesia (719 languages).
Why this is the answer (spoilers)
This daily ran six prompts, each scored by a measured rule rather than by rarity. On “Name a Harry Potter character from the films.”, the winning answer was Alecto Carrow at 1 lines, ahead of Bloody Baron at 1 lines. On “Name an animal.”, the winning answer was Mosquitoes at 760,000 deaths, ahead of Humans at 600,000 deaths. On “Name a game played with a standard deck of cards.”, the winning answer was Thirty-one at 1,440 year, ahead of Noddy at 1,589 year. Naming mattered too: Mosquitoes is also accepted as Mosquito, which helps if you only know the short form. The counterintuitive one was “Name a Harry Potter character from the films.”, where less lines in the movies, the higher you fly — so Alecto Carrow outscored the more famous picks. Magnitudes and sources are the game's own, as listed in its archive notes for this date.