DAILY NO. 16 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 16, 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 concert tuba measures 1 m (height), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, an acoustic guitar at 1 m.
Up to 5.5 m of tubing, wrapped into about a metre of instrument.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a concert tuba when it sits beside an acoustic guitar — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a laptop computer measures 35 cm (length / span), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, a computer keyboard at 44 cm.
Measured across the closed lid, not along the screen’s diagonal.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a laptop computer when it sits beside a computer keyboard — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: an American bullfrog measures 15 cm (length / span), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, a game controller at 16 cm.
A large bullfrog can be almost as long as a modern phone.
Common miss: players tend to inflate an American bullfrog when it sits beside a game controller — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Moon measures 3,474.8 km (length / span), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, Brazil at 4,320 km.
The Moon’s mean diameter is about 3,475 kilometres.
Common miss: players tend to inflate the Moon when it sits beside Brazil — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a giant stick insect measures 56 cm (length / span), which is about 1.5× smaller than the reference, a baseball bat at 86 cm.
Record stick insects can exceed half a metre with legs extended.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a giant stick insect when it sits beside a baseball bat — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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