DAILY NO. 12 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five geography objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 12, 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: metropolitan France measures 1,000 km (length / span), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, Texas at 1,270 km.
Metropolitan France is nicknamed the Hexagon; no side of it runs much beyond 1,000 km.
Common miss: players tend to inflate metropolitan France when it sits beside Texas — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Africa measures 8,000 km (height), which is 3× as big as the reference, Greenland at 2,670 km.
Africa spans roughly 8,000 kilometres from north to south.
Common miss: players tend to compress Africa when it sits beside Greenland — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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: 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: Greenland measures 2,670 km (height), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, Japan at 3,000 km.
The span is real, but Mercator maps still inflate Greenland’s area by about fourteen times.
Common miss: players tend to inflate Greenland when it sits beside Japan — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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