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 #9 · July 19, 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 interconnected systems by their approximate number of endpoints or nodes, from fewest to most.
- The global fleet of active smartphones
- The US electrical power grid
- A standard Sudoku puzzle
- An adult human brain
- An orb-weaver spider's web
Round 2
Order these branching structures by their total length if stretched end-to-end, from shortest to longest.
- The electrical wiring in the International Space Station
- The historical Silk Road trade routes
- An adult human's blood vessels
- Earth's active undersea communications cables
- A typical oak leaf's veins
Round 3
Order these transport and transmission methods by their typical cruising speed, from slowest to fastest.
- A commercial Boeing 737 jet
- The global ocean conveyor belt
- A human reflex nerve impulse
- The 19th-century Pony Express
- A fiber optic laser pulse