Sorta Game — the daily ordering puzzle
Put the world in order… sorta.
Three quiet rounds, five things each, and one hidden way to arrange them. Trust your instinct and see how close your order comes to the truth.
Sorta Game puzzle #19 · July 29, 2026
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 escaping or retreating things from slowest to fastest top speed.
- The Voyager 1 probe escaping the solar system
- An escaping champagne cork
- A fleeing cheetah sprinting from danger
- A retreating alpine glacier
- An SR-71 Blackbird spy plane evading a missile lock
Round 2
Order these strikes and impacts from least to most total energy released.
- A medieval trebuchet launching a 90kg stone boulder
- The Chicxulub asteroid collision
- A grand piano hammer striking a string
- A heavyweight champion's knockout punch
- A typical cloud-to-ground lightning bolt
Round 3
Order these stuck, halted, or preserved things from shortest to longest duration of being immobilized.
- A child's tongue stuck fast to an icy metal flagpole
- A superstitious couple's top tier of wedding cake kept on ice
- A deer transfixed in place by an approaching car's headlights
- The woolly mammoth Lyuba entombed in Siberian permafrost
- The ash-encased ruins of ancient Pompeii