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Originle #8 answer and hints

Monday, October 12, 2026. The guest is Ramy. Replay it in the official archive before you open anything.

Originle #8, October 12, 2026

Where is Ramy from?

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

No.
008
OCT 12

3 hints, then the clue titles, then the answer

Hint 1: A nudgeThe continent and the coastline

Ramy represents a country in Asia. It has a coastline and shares land borders with 6 countries.

Hint 2: CloserThe region and the languages

Narrow it to Western Asia. Official languages include Arabic and Kurdish.

Hint 3: Nearly thereThe spelling and the neighbours

The country's name starts with "I" and has 4 letters. It borders Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Türkiye.

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. 3Summer Visits
  4. 4Something from Home
  5. 5Landscape
  6. 6Ancient History
  7. 7How Big?
  8. 8Location (the country outline appears)
Originle #8 answerOnly open this when you're ready.

Ramy represents Iraq

Region
Western Asia, Asia
Capital
Baghdad
Languages
Arabic and Kurdish

Ramy is a UK national. For this game, he’s representing the country his family is from. The game won't accept United Kingdom as a guess for this guest.

Close misses for #8

After a wrong guess Originle tells you how far it was from Iraq, 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: 🇮🇷 Iran, 🇯🇴 Jordan, 🇰🇼 Kuwait, 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia, 🇸🇾 Syria and 🇹🇷 Türkiye. A miss on any of these still scores 1,000.

Nearest countries without a shared border
Next closestDistancePoints for this miss
Azerbaijan214 km870
Lebanon223 km860
Armenia226 km860
Israel268 km840
Palestine319 km810
Georgia417 km760
Bahrain456 km740
Egypt469 km730

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