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Sorta Game puzzle #85 · October 3, 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 · 5 Planets
Order these planets by their surface escape velocity (the minimum speed needed to escape their gravitational pull), from slowest to fastest.
- Uranus
- Earth
- Saturn
- Mercury
- Jupiter
Round 2
Order these launched bodies by the maximum altitude (apogee) reached during their typical unpowered flight, from lowest to highest.
- A professional municipal display firework shell
- A Blue Origin New Shepard crew capsule at the peak of suborbital flight
- An intercontinental rocket payload on a standard minimum-energy trajectory
- A heavy battlefield mortar shell fired at a high angle
- An elite human athlete's standing vertical jump
Round 3
Order these launched objects by their typical horizontal range, from shortest to longest.
- A regulation backyard cornhole bag toss
- An Olympic hammer throw
- A Trident II submarine-launched strategic missile
- An English longbow war arrow in medieval flight shooting
- A World War I Paris Gun super-heavy artillery shell