DAILY NO. 17 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 17, 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 flute measures 67 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a French baguette at 65 cm.
Played sideways, which makes its 67 cm read much smaller on stage.
Common miss: players tend to compress a concert flute when it sits beside a French baguette — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a tennis racket measures 68.5 cm (height), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, a dining chair at 90 cm.
The rules allow up to 73.7 cm, but almost every player uses something just under 69 cm.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a tennis racket when it sits beside a dining chair — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a domestic cat measures 46 cm (length / span), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, a large pizza at 35.6 cm.
A cat’s body is about 46 cm long before its tail is counted.
Common miss: players tend to compress a domestic cat when it sits beside a large pizza — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a cruising sailboat measures 10 m (length / span), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, an American school bus at 10.7 m.
A modest cruising yacht is commonly around ten metres long.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a cruising sailboat when it sits beside an American school bus — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: an apple measures 8 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a chocolate chip cookie at 8 cm.
Supermarket apples are graded by diameter, and 8 cm counts as a large one.
Common miss: players tend to inflate an apple when it sits beside a chocolate chip cookie — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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