DAILY NO. 14 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 14, 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: Italy measures 1,200 km (height), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, Great Britain at 1,000 km.
Italy’s long axis is why the Alps and Sicily belong to the same country.
Common miss: players tend to compress Italy when it sits beside Great Britain — 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: a golf ball measures 4.3 cm (length / span), which is about 1.9× smaller than the reference, an apple at 8 cm.
A golf ball cannot be smaller than 42.67 mm in diameter.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a golf ball when it sits beside an apple — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Sun measures 1,392,700 km (length / span), which is 309× as big as the reference, the contiguous United States at 4,500 km.
The Sun is about 1.39 million kilometres in diameter.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Sun when it sits beside the contiguous United States — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a soda can measures 12.2 cm (height), which is about 1.4× smaller than the reference, an ice cream cone at 17 cm.
The 330 ml can has kept essentially the same silhouette since 1963.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a soda can when it sits beside an ice cream cone — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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