DAILY NO. 16 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five landmarks 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: the Golden Gate Bridge measures 2.7 km (length / span), which is about 1269.6× smaller than the reference, the Moon at 3,474.8 km.
The full bridge is 2.737 kilometres from abutment to abutment.
Common miss: players tend to inflate the Golden Gate Bridge when it sits beside the Moon — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Gateway Arch measures 192 m (height), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, the Washington Monument at 169.3 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 Washington Monument — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Empire State Building measures 443.2 m (height), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, the Eiffel Tower at 330 m.
It reaches 443.2 metres to the tip of its antenna.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Empire State Building when it sits beside the Eiffel Tower — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Statue of Liberty measures 93 m (height), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, a Saturn V rocket at 110.6 m.
The 93 metres include the pedestal and the torch.
Common miss: players tend to inflate the Statue of Liberty when it sits beside a Saturn V rocket — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Washington Monument measures 169.3 m (height), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, the Space Needle at 184 m.
The marble changes shade a third of the way up, where construction stopped for over twenty years.
Common miss: players tend to inflate the Washington Monument when it sits beside the Space Needle — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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