Puzzle Pages – answers for October 2025!

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the October 2025 issue of Expat Living magazine. If you love quiz questions and puzzles and you’d like to make sure you get them every month, don’t forget to subscribe to Expat Living!

Puzzle Pages, October 2025 answers – Page 1

Q&A

1. What is the national sport of Japan?
2. The symbol for which zodiac sign is a letter “M” with a pointed tail at the end?
3. What type of pasta translates to “little worms”?
4. Which 45-year-old woman competed in the Women’s Doubles draw at this year’s US Open tennis championships?
5. What element is diamond made from?
6. What novel is this line from: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”?
7. How many different colours make up the letters of the Google logo?
8. What part of the brain controls balance and coordination?
9. What is the currency of South Africa?
10. What do the initials “EQ” stand for?

Answers:

1. Sumo
2. Scorpio
3. Vermicelli
4. Venus Williams
5. Carbon
6. Animal Farm
7. Four (red, yellow, green, blue)
8. Cerebellum
9. Rand
10. Emotional Quotient

SUDOKU

5 7 4  3 2 8  6 9 1
2 6 1  7 9 5  3 4 8
8 9 3  6 4 1  7 2 5

9 2 6  1 3 7  8 5 4
3 1 5  4 8 2  9 6 7
7 4 8  5 6 9  1 3 2

1 3 7  9 5 4  2 8 6
4 8 9  2 7 6  5 1 3
6 5 2  8 1 3  4 7 9

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: spaghetti

others:
gash, hasp, hate, heap, heat, pash, path, phat,
pish, pith, shag, shea, ship, sigh, that, this, apish,
eight, haste, heist, phase, shape, sight, theta,
tight, tithe, geisha, hatpeg, theist, atheist, pettish

KENKEN

2 5 1 4 3
5 4 2 3 1
4 3 5 1 2
3 1 4 2 5
1 2 3 5 4

Puzzle Pages, October 2025 answers – Page 2

CINEMATIC SETTINGS

Tell us which country each of the following films is set in

Answers:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople – New Zealand
Lost in Translation – Japan
Evita – Argentina
Slumdog Millionaire – India
District 9 – South Africa
Picnic at Hanging Rock – Australia
Argo – Iran
The Banshees of Inisherin – Ireland
Crazy Rich Asians – Singapore
The Sound of Music – Austria

ANIMAL ACTIVITIES

Match the animal with an odd feature about it

Answers:

Pangolin – can roll up into a ball
Koala  – has a fingerprint very similar to a human’s
Octopus – has three hearts
Penguin – can drink sea water thanks to a gland that filters salt
Sloth – can take one month to digest a leaf
Butterfly – tastes things with its feet
Polar bear – has black skin under white fur
Frog – can freeze to solid and survive (certain species)
Sea otter – holds hands with companions when sleeping
Kangaroo – cannot move backwards

LOVE A DUMPLING?

Wrap a delicious filling in dough anywhere in the world and you’ll make people happy. Match these dumpling varieties with one of the countries they’re found in!

Answers:

Momos – Nepal
Tamales – Mexico
Jiaozi – China
Agnolotti – Italy
Pierogi – Poland
Empanadas – Spain
Gyoza – Japan
Samosa – India
Pelmeni – Russia
Coxinhas – Brazil

THE RIDDLER

Answer:

The letter “e” doesn’t appear anywhere in the paragraph.

Liked our October puzzle pages? Read on for more fun puzzles and trivia:

20 quirky facts about Singapore
The great Travel Guide quiz