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Originle #11 answer and hints

Thursday, October 15, 2026. The guest is Sofia. This is today's puzzle; the Today page has the same answer.

Originle #11, October 15, 2026

Where is Sofia from?

Open the hints one at a time. The answer stays folded away until you ask for it.

No.
011
OCT 15

3 hints, then the clue titles, then the answer

Hint 1: A nudgeThe continent and the coastline

Sofia represents a country in Asia. It has a coastline and shares land borders with 4 countries.

Hint 2: CloserThe region and the languages

Narrow it to South Asia. Official languages include English and Urdu.

Hint 3: Nearly thereThe spelling and the neighbours

The country's name starts with "P" and has 8 letters. It borders Afghanistan, China, India and Iran.

The 8 clue titlesThe topics of each video, in the order the game reveals them. Later ones give a lot away.
  1. 1Welcome
  2. 2Language
  3. 3Something from Home
  4. 4Desert & Ancient Cities
  5. 5Summer Memories
  6. 6A Taste of Home
  7. 7Cricket
  8. 8Location (the country outline appears)
Originle #11 answerOnly open this when you're ready.

Sofia represents Pakistan

Region
South Asia, Asia
Capital
Islamabad
Languages
English and Urdu

Sofia grew up in Australia. For this game, she’s representing the country her family is from. The game won't accept Australia as a guess for this guest.

Close misses for #11

After a wrong guess Originle tells you how far it was from Pakistan, measured border to border. A guess that touches the answer's border is 0 km away. If all three guesses miss, your score comes from the closest one.

Show the nearby countriesThis names the answer's neighbours, so it narrows things down a lot.

0 km, sharing a border: 🇦🇫 Afghanistan, 🇨🇳 China, 🇮🇳 India and 🇮🇷 Iran. A miss on any of these still scores 1,000.

Nearest countries without a shared border
Next closestDistancePoints for this miss
Tajikistan20 km990
Kyrgyzstan267 km840
Uzbekistan330 km800
Oman338 km800
Turkmenistan440 km750
United Arab Emirates522 km710
Kazakhstan536 km700
Nepal557 km690

The guest, answer, clue titles and distances come from the data Originle publishes for this day (originle.io/sofia). The hints are written by this site from that data. Added October 15, 2026 at 5:28 AM EDT.