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11 September 2026
The daily on 11 September 2026 was Outdo, on Which came first: the same eleven cards for everyone, one shown and one hidden, ten rounds. Here is every card with its start date, and the answer to each round.
It opened on Liverpool F.C., shown with its start date, 3 June 1892.
The ten rounds
| Round | Shown | Hidden | Answer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liverpool F.C.3 June 1892 | Kellogg's19 February 1906 | Laterby 14 years |
| 2 | Kellogg's19 February 1906 | Pixar3 February 1986 | Laterby 80 years |
| 3 | Pixar3 February 1986 | the internet29 October 1969 | Earlierby 16 years |
| 4 | the internet29 October 1969 | Windows20 November 1985 | Laterby 16 years |
| 5 | Windows20 November 1985 | Wikipedia15 January 2001 | Laterby 15 years |
| 6 | Wikipedia15 January 2001 | Barbie9 March 1959 | Earlierby 42 years |
| 7 | Barbie9 March 1959 | Nokia12 May 1865 | Earlierby 94 years |
| 8 | Nokia12 May 1865 | Raspberry Pi29 February 2012 | Laterby 147 years |
| 9 | Raspberry Pi29 February 2012 | Instagram6 October 2010 | Earlierby 17 months, close enough for a near miss |
| 10 | Instagram6 October 2010 | YouTube14 February 2005 | Earlierby 6 years |
Where the figures come from
Wikidata, under CC0 1.0. Retrieved 2026-09-13, Hand-curated, then verified by query. Candidates came from two sweeps of the Wikidata query service: every entity with at least 90 Wikimedia sitelinks carrying exactly one best-ranked inception date at full day precision, and a named shortlist of household brands, toys, games and programmes resolved through the English Wikipedia page-props API. Selection is manual and editorial — the mechanic only works when both items are famous to the same person, so the bar is a UK household with a child in it rather than a sitelink count. Every surviving value was then re-fetched by item and rejected unless the property carried exactly one best-ranked statement at day precision, which is what stops a year-precision date shipping as a fabricated 1 January. Items were also dropped where the one stored date is not the date the thing is normally said to have started..
Dates are inception (P571) for companies, institutions, characters and products, and publication date (P577) for games, films and books. Both are taken from the best-ranked statement at full day precision; an item stated only to a year or a month is excluded rather than rounded, because a year-precision Wikidata date renders as 1 January and would ship a day nobody claimed. The 65 items are chosen by hand for recognisability, not returned by a query, so the selection carries an editor and the values do not.