DAILY NO. 7 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five landmarks objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 7, 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: the Statue of Liberty measures 93 m (height), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, a Saturn V rocket at 110.6 m.
The 93 metres include the pedestal and the torch.
Common miss: players tend to inflate the Statue of Liberty when it sits beside a Saturn V rocket — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Washington Monument measures 169.3 m (height), which is about 1.9× smaller than the reference, the Eiffel Tower at 330 m.
The marble changes shade a third of the way up, where construction stopped for over twenty years.
Common miss: players tend to inflate the Washington Monument when it sits beside the Eiffel Tower — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Elizabeth Tower measures 96 m (height), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, the Statue of Liberty at 93 m.
The clock tower commonly called Big Ben is 96 metres tall.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Elizabeth Tower when it sits beside the Statue of Liberty — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Gateway Arch measures 192 m (height), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, the Space Needle at 184 m.
St Louis’s Gateway Arch is as wide as it is tall.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Gateway Arch when it sits beside the Space Needle — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Roman Colosseum measures 189 m (length / span), which is 2.7× as big as the reference, a Boeing 747 at 70.7 m.
The ancient amphitheatre is roughly 189 metres along its longest axis.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Roman Colosseum when it sits beside a Boeing 747 — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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