DAILY NO. 8 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five landmarks objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 8, 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 Eiffel Tower measures 330 m (height), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, the Empire State Building at 443.2 m.
The Eiffel Tower reaches about 330 metres including its antenna.
Common miss: players tend to inflate the Eiffel Tower when it sits beside the Empire State Building — 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 Space Needle measures 184 m (height), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, the Gateway Arch at 192 m.
Built for the 1962 World’s Fair, it was the tallest building west of the Mississippi when it opened.
Common miss: players tend to inflate the Space Needle when it sits beside the Gateway Arch — 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 Golden Gate Bridge measures 2.7 km (length / span), which is 27370× as big as the reference, a monarch butterfly at 10 cm.
The full bridge is 2.737 kilometres from abutment to abutment.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Golden Gate Bridge when it sits beside a monarch butterfly — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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