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 #32 · August 11, 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 things by their typical physical diameter, from smallest to largest.
- A water molecule
- A single baker's yeast cell
- An electron
- A standard glass marble
- A single grain of table salt
Round 2
Order these objects by their typical mass, from lightest to heaviest.
- A regulation billiard ball
- A concrete cinder block
- A standard postage stamp
- A Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
- An adult male hippopotamus
Round 3
Order these entities by their approximate distance from Earth's surface, from closest to farthest.
- The Andromeda Galaxy
- The Alpha Centauri star system
- The planet Jupiter at its closest approach
- A deployed high-altitude weather balloon
- A geostationary communications satellite