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 #17 · July 27, 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 locations by their typical baseline climate or state, from coldest to hottest.
- Vostok Station, Antarctica
- A typical domestic refrigerator
- The resting human body
- The core of the Earth
- The Boomerang Nebula
Round 2
Order these materials by how quickly warmth travels through them, from slowest to fastest.
- Goose down feathers
- A cast iron skillet
- A pane of window glass
- A jeweler's diamond
- A block of pine wood
Round 3
Order these substances by how much energy is required to raise one gram of them by a single degree Celsius, from least to most.
- Olive oil
- A slab of quartz
- A solid gold bar
- Dry atmospheric air
- Pure liquid water