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 #46 · August 25, 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 animals from fewest to most types of color-receptive cone cells in their eyes.
- A peacock mantis shrimp
- A common goldfish
- A Bornean orangutan
- A deep-diving sperm whale
- A nocturnal raccoon
Round 2
Order these animals from lowest to highest maximum acoustic frequency they can hear.
- A greater wax moth
- A domestic horse
- An American bullfrog
- A wild barn owl
- A wild beluga whale
Round 3
Order these animals from fewest to most functional olfactory receptor genes.
- A wild narwhal
- A common brown rat
- A wild Asian elephant
- A wild chimpanzee
- A purebred Beagle dog