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 #14 · July 24, 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 hollow cylindrical structures by their typical internal diameter, from smallest to largest.
- A standard hypodermic medical needle
- The Large Hadron Collider beam pipe
- A typical plastic drinking straw
- A single-walled carbon nanotube
- The Channel Tunnel
Round 2
Order these tubular conduits by the typical speed at which their contents travel through them, from slowest to fastest.
- Water spraying from an active firefighter's hose
- Electrons beaming through a vintage cathode ray tube
- Blood circulating through a resting human's aorta
- Crude oil moving through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
- Sap rising in a typical maple tree's trunk
Round 3
Order these common metal cylinders by their typical internal operating pressure, from lowest to highest.
- A portable dry chemical fire extinguisher
- A commercial airliner fuselage at cruising altitude
- A standard stovetop pressure cooker
- A standard aluminum soda can at room temperature
- A full scuba diving compressed air cylinder