DAILY NO. 18 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five geography objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 18, 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: Hawaiʻi Island measures 150 km (length / span), which is about 6.7× smaller than the reference, metropolitan France at 1,000 km.
The Big Island is larger than all the other Hawaiian islands combined, and still growing.
Common miss: players tend to inflate Hawaiʻi Island when it sits beside metropolitan France — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: metropolitan France measures 1,000 km (length / span), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, Texas at 1,270 km.
Metropolitan France is nicknamed the Hexagon; no side of it runs much beyond 1,000 km.
Common miss: players tend to inflate metropolitan France when it sits beside Texas — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Africa measures 8,000 km (height), which is 3× as big as the reference, Greenland at 2,670 km.
Africa spans roughly 8,000 kilometres from north to south.
Common miss: players tend to compress Africa when it sits beside Greenland — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Great Britain measures 1,000 km (height), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, California at 1,240 km.
About the straight-line distance from Land’s End to John o’ Groats.
Common miss: players tend to inflate Great Britain when it sits beside California — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Japan measures 3,000 km (height), which is 2.5× as big as the reference, Italy at 1,200 km.
Japan’s island arc extends around 3,000 kilometres.
Common miss: players tend to compress Japan when it sits beside Italy — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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