DAILY NO. 5 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five geography objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 5, 2026, with the measured size of each, the reference it was compared against, a source you can check, and how the community's guesses landed. Want the surprise first? Replay this puzzle — archived days never touch your streak.
Answer: Hawaiʻi Island measures 150 km (length / span), which is about 6.7× smaller than the reference, metropolitan France at 1,000 km.
The Big Island is larger than all the other Hawaiian islands combined, and still growing.
Common miss: players tend to inflate Hawaiʻi Island when it sits beside metropolitan France — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Greenland measures 2,670 km (height), which is 2.2× as big as the reference, California at 1,240 km.
The span is real, but Mercator maps still inflate Greenland’s area by about fourteen times.
Common miss: players tend to compress Greenland when it sits beside California — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Texas measures 1,270 km (length / span), which is about 2.7× smaller than the reference, the Moon at 3,474.8 km.
Texas stretches about 1,270 kilometres east to west.
Common miss: players tend to inflate Texas when it sits beside the Moon — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Great Britain measures 1,000 km (height), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, Italy at 1,200 km.
About the straight-line distance from Land’s End to John o’ Groats.
Common miss: players tend to inflate Great Britain when it sits beside Italy — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Brazil measures 4,320 km (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, the contiguous United States at 4,500 km.
Brazil is almost exactly as wide as it is tall — roughly 4,300 km either way.
Common miss: players tend to inflate Brazil when it sits beside the contiguous United States — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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