Farflung answers for October 20, 2026: #16

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Prompt 1

Pin a country with a Z in its name

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15 countries are accepted. The Z can be anywhere: Switzerland and Tanzania count. Current English short names only, so Eswatini, Swaziland until 2018, does not.

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The answers most players pin (only 40–55 km): Brazil, New Zealand and Switzerland. Skip these if you want distance.

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Today's gem is in Europe.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

Farflung (gems and top rarity) (100 km): Bosnia and Herzegovina

Elusive (85 km): Mozambique

Rare (70 km, 10 answers): Czechia, Venezuela, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Uzbekistan, Belize, Zambia, Kyrgyzstan

Uncommon (55 km, 2 answers): New Zealand, Switzerland

Common (40 km): Brazil

The Z is hiding in Herzegovina, the country's southern region. Bosnia and Herzegovina: Herzegovina means the duke's land, after a duke of the 1400s.

Prompt 2

Pin an island country in the Caribbean

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14 countries are accepted. The Bahamas and Barbados sit in the Atlantic, but both count. Puerto Rico and Martinique count for their countries, which are not island countries. The UK is one, so its Caribbean territories, such as the Cayman Islands, count for it.

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The answers most players pin (only 40–55 km): Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Haiti. Skip these if you want distance.

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Today's gem is in North America.

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Saint Kitts and Nevis

Farflung (gems and top rarity) (100 km): Saint Kitts and Nevis

Elusive (85 km, 5 answers): Saint Lucia, Grenada, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Rare (70 km, 4 answers): Trinidad and Tobago, Bahamas, United Kingdom, Barbados

Uncommon (55 km, 3 answers): Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Haiti

Common (40 km): Cuba

The smallest country in the Americas, and Alexander Hamilton was born on Nevis. Saint Kitts and Nevis: Its two islands are about three kilometres apart, across the Narrows.

Prompt 3

Pin a country where Game of Thrones was filmed

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10 countries are accepted. Any filming counts, animals too: a wolf was filmed in Canada and a bear in the United States. Northern Ireland, home to its studios, is the United Kingdom, and HBO lists one location in Ireland too. Greece counts for Meteora, whose rock pillars were photographed for the Eyrie’s mountains.

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The answers most players pin (only 40–55 km): United Kingdom, Croatia, Iceland and Ireland. Skip these if you want distance.

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Today's gem is in Europe.

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Malta

Farflung (gems and top rarity) (100 km): Malta

Elusive (85 km, 3 answers): Canada, United States, Greece

Rare (70 km, 2 answers): Spain, Morocco

Uncommon (55 km, 3 answers): Croatia, Iceland, Ireland

Common (40 km): United Kingdom

Malta played King's Landing in the first season, until the filming moved to Dubrovnik. Malta: Daenerys married Khal Drogo by Gozo's Azure Window, which fell in 2017.

Prompt 4

Pin a country whose capital gives its name to a kind of food or drink in English

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44 countries are accepted. The name should come from the city. Beef Wellington is presumably the duke's, but it shares his name with the capital, so New Zealand counts. The Jerusalem bagel counts for Israel and for Palestine, which both name the city their capital. Crab Rangoon counts for Myanmar, whose capital was Rangoon, now Yangon, until 2005, and Bolivia counts for Sucre, French for sugar, as in sucre à la crème. Aden, Yemen’s provisional capital, counts too, and so do muscat for Oman and the Monaco cocktail.

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The answers most players pin (only 40–55 km): Belgium, Austria, China and Russia. Skip these if you want distance.

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Today's gem is in Asia.

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Syria

Farflung (gems and top rarity) (100 km): Syria

Elusive (85 km, 29 answers): Israel, Oman, Portugal, Afghanistan, Spain, Netherlands, Philippines, Czechia, Croatia, Hungary, India, Japan, Latvia, Palestine, Turkey, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, North Korea, Bangladesh, Switzerland, Lebanon, Monaco, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tunisia, Bolivia, Denmark, Yemen

Rare (70 km, 10 answers): Ukraine, Singapore, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, New Zealand, Peru, Cuba, Ireland

Uncommon (55 km, 3 answers): Austria, China, Russia

Common (40 km): Belgium

Damson is worn down from damascene, the plum of Damascus, though the English fruit may never have grown there. Syria: Damson comes from the Latin for the plum of Damascus.

Prompt 5

Pin a country Victor Frankenstein sets foot in during Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein

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8 countries are accepted. Wherever Victor himself goes, from his birth at Naples in the 1831 text to the chase across Russia. Chamonix and Évian are in France today.

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The answers most players pin (only 40–55 km): Switzerland, Germany and United Kingdom. Skip these if you want distance.

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Today's gem is in Europe.

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Ireland

Farflung (gems and top rarity) (100 km): Ireland

Elusive (85 km, 2 answers): Italy, Netherlands

Rare (70 km, 2 answers): France, Russia

Uncommon (55 km, 2 answers): Germany, United Kingdom

Common (40 km): Switzerland

Adrift after sinking the remains of the creature’s mate, Victor lands in Ireland and is charged with Clerval’s murder. Ireland: Victor spends over three months in an Irish prison before a grand jury clears him.

Every answer for #16

All Farflung #16 answers in one table Spoiler

Prompt	Clue	Gems	Also good
1	Pin a country with a Z in its name	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Mozambique
2	Pin an island country in the Caribbean	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Saint Lucia, Grenada, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda
3	Pin a country where Game of Thrones was filmed	Malta	Canada, United States, Greece
4	Pin a country whose capital gives its name to a kind of food or drink in English	Syria	Israel, Oman, Portugal, Afghanistan
5	Pin a country Victor Frankenstein sets foot in during Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein	Ireland	Italy, Netherlands

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Farflung answers for October 20, 2026: #16

Pin a country with a Z in its name

Pin an island country in the Caribbean

Pin a country where Game of Thrones was filmed

Pin a country whose capital gives its name to a kind of food or drink in English

Pin a country Victor Frankenstein sets foot in during Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein

Every answer for #16

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