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Sorta Game puzzle #80 · September 28, 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 protective covers and obscuring layers by their typical total surface area, from smallest to largest.

   • The massive steel-and-concrete Chernobyl New Safe Confinement arch
   • A standard fabric eye patch used for personal health
   • A mesh beekeeper's face veil used for agricultural safety
   • A standard residential bedroom window blackout curtain
   • A heavy winter cover for a large commercial community swimming pool

2. Round 2

   Order these famously hidden or unknown things by the year their true nature or location was definitively revealed to the public, from earliest to most recent.

   • The living coelacanth fish, previously thought extinct for 66 million years
   • The existence of the theoretical Higgs boson particle
   • The deep-sea wreckage site of the RMS Titanic
   • The 'Lost City' of Machu Picchu
   • The true identity of the political whistleblower 'Deep Throat'

3. Round 3

   Order these physical objects associated with enforcing rules or the justice system by their typical weight, from lightest to heaviest.

   • The monumental bronze Lady Justice statue atop London's Old Bailey court
   • A heavy steel 'Denver Boot' vehicle immobilizer
   • A standard solid steel jail cell door
   • A solid wooden judge's gavel
   • A standard metal police officer's breast badge

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