Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Sortie! answer for October 21, 2026
Oct 21’s Sortie! hints
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Reveal the answer
2. Name a Monopoly property. — Best: Mediterranean Avenue (60 price); also strong: Baltic Avenue (60 price).
3. Name a Chinese zodiac animal. — Best: Pig (12 order); also strong: Dog (11 order).
4. Name a country in Asia. — Best: Brunei (462,721 people); also strong: Maldives (527,799 people).
5. Name a head of state from a country involved in WW2. — Best: Philippe Pétain (1,856 year); also strong: J. B. M. Hertzog (1,866 year).
6. Name a film scored by Hans Zimmer. — Best: F1 (2,025 year); also strong: Ella McCay (2,025 year).
Why this is the answer (spoilers)
This daily ran six prompts, each scored by a measured rule rather than by rarity. On “Name a reindeer from Santa's sleigh.”, the winning answer was Blitzen at 18 Scrabble, ahead of Vixen at 15 Scrabble. On “Name a Monopoly property.”, the winning answer was Mediterranean Avenue at 60 price, ahead of Baltic Avenue at 60 price. On “Name a Chinese zodiac animal.”, the winning answer was Pig at 12 order, ahead of Dog at 11 order. Naming mattered too: Blitzen is also accepted as Blixen, Blixem, which helps if you only know the short form. The counterintuitive one was “Name a Monopoly property.”, where lower purchase price, the higher you fly — so Mediterranean Avenue outscored the more famous picks. Magnitudes and sources are the game's own, as listed in its archive notes for this date.