Sorta Game — the daily ordering puzzle

Sorta Game puzzle #54 · September 2, 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.

1. Round 1

   Order these famous works by their approximate total word count, from shortest to longest.

   • The standard text of the United States Pledge of Allegiance
   • The full Old and New Testaments of the King James Bible
   • The spoken text of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
   • The original unamended text of the United States Constitution
   • The complete manuscript of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein

2. Round 2

   Order these historical milestones in communication technology by the year they occurred, from earliest to most recent.

   • The invention of the Linotype hot-metal typesetting machine
   • The introduction of the first automated plain-paper office photocopier
   • The release of the first mass-market desktop digital laser printer
   • The publication of the first weekly printed newspaper in Europe
   • The use of carved wooden blocks for page printing in Tang Dynasty China

3. Round 3

   Order these everyday physical items by the typical number of pages they contain, from fewest to most.

   • A typical casual dining restaurant menu
   • A standard monthly single-issue superhero comic book
   • A standard year-long tear-off desktop page-a-day calendar
   • A typical single-subject wire-bound college notebook
   • The complete 20-volume printed second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary

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