SortStack #2849 — 2034-03-28

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A brilliant-cut one-carat diamond 200 mg

   The carat unit comes from carob seeds, which ancient gem traders used as counterweights on their balance scales.

2. An adult male wild boar 90 kg

   Wild boars are thriving so well they have spread or been introduced to every continent except Antarctica.

3. A full-size kitchen refrigerator 135 kg

   Refrigeration changed cuisine more than almost any invention; Einstein even co-patented a fridge with no moving parts in 1930.

4. The Antonov An-225 Mriya cargo plane at maximum takeoff weight 640 t

   The heaviest aircraft ever built was destroyed in Ukraine in 2022; 'Mriya' means 'dream' in Ukrainian.

5. The RMS Titanic 52K t

   Each of her giant anchors needed a team of 20 horses to haul through the streets of Belfast to the shipyard.

6. A fully loaded Triple-E class container ship 250K t

   It hauls around 18,000 containers with a crew of only about 22 — fewer people than a fast-food restaurant shift.

← All puzzles · Play today’s SortStack