DAILY NO. 13 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 13, 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: a smartphone measures 14.7 cm (height), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, an ice cream cone at 17 cm.
Phones stopped growing at roughly the limit of what a thumb can reach one-handed.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a smartphone when it sits beside an ice cream cone — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Japan measures 3,000 km (height), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, Greenland at 2,670 km.
Japan’s island arc extends around 3,000 kilometres.
Common miss: players tend to compress Japan when it sits beside Greenland — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a Space Shuttle orbiter measures 37.3 m (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, an Argentinosaurus at 33 m.
The orbiter alone is about as long as a short-haul airliner — the launch stack was far taller.
Common miss: players tend to compress a Space Shuttle orbiter when it sits beside an Argentinosaurus — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: an Argentinosaurus measures 33 m (length / span), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, a Diplodocus at 25 m.
Some estimates place this giant at more than 30 metres long.
Common miss: players tend to compress an Argentinosaurus when it sits beside a Diplodocus — 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.
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