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 #28 · August 7, 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 interactions from the most slippery to the most grippy
- A rubber car tire skidding heavily on dry asphalt
- Cartilage sliding in a healthy human knee joint
- A rubber pencil eraser rubbing across a sheet of paper
- A steel hockey skate gliding on an ice rink
- A plastic spatula scraping a dry non-stick pan
Round 2
Order these materials by how easily they allow electricity to flow through them, from easiest to hardest
- A pure copper plumbing pipe
- A puddle of ocean water
- A standard ceramic coffee mug
- A fresh, juicy grapefruit
- A solid block of paraffin wax
Round 3
Order these objects by how effortlessly they slip through the air, from the most streamlined to the most wind-catching
- A deployed round emergency parachute
- A human standing completely upright
- A peregrine falcon in a diving stoop
- A modern high-speed bullet train
- A standard family SUV