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Sorta Game puzzle #114 · November 1, 2026
This puzzle ran on November 1, 2026, during TCS New York City Marathon.
Three rounds of five things, each with a hidden scale to sort them by — then one last guess at the theme tying all three together. Here’s what this puzzle asks.
Round 1
Order these human physical activities by metabolic power output, from lowest to highest.
- An adult sleeping soundly in bed
- An elite track cyclist sustaining an all-out sprint on an ergometer
- A distance runner maintaining an eight-minute-mile pace
- A pedestrian walking briskly at three and a half miles per hour
- An office worker typing at a desktop computer
Round 2 · 5 Edible nuts
Order these culinary nuts by caloric density, from lowest to highest energy content per 100 grams.
- Cashews
- Chestnuts
- Peanuts
- Walnuts
- Almonds
Round 3
Order these endogenous human energy reserves by how long they can sustain physical effort before complete depletion, from shortest to longest duration.
- Total aerobic glycogen stored in liver and muscle
- Free cellular ATP pool in skeletal muscle
- Anaerobic glycogen undergoing rapid glycolysis
- Total adipose tissue triglyceride reserves in an average adult
- Intracellular phosphocreatine reserves