DAILY NO. 18 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five technology 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: a camera drone measures 35 cm (length / span), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, an American football at 28 cm.
Measured diagonally between motors, the dimension most drone regulations use.
Common miss: players tend to compress a camera drone when it sits beside an American football — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a smartwatch measures 4.5 cm (height), which is about 2.7× smaller than the reference, a soda can at 12.2 cm.
Watch cases are sold by case diameter in millimetres, and 45 mm is a large one.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a smartwatch when it sits beside a soda can — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a computer keyboard measures 44 cm (length / span), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, a large pizza at 35.6 cm.
Full-size boards owe their width to the number pad; tenkeyless models lose about 10 cm.
Common miss: players tend to compress a computer keyboard when it sits beside a large pizza — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a PlayStation 5 measures 39 cm (height), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, a wine bottle at 30 cm.
The largest home console ever sold, almost entirely because of its cooling.
Common miss: players tend to compress a PlayStation 5 when it sits beside a wine bottle — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: an office printer measures 45 cm (length / span), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, a laptop computer at 35 cm.
Width is set by the paper path — A4 and Letter need the same clearance.
Common miss: players tend to compress an office printer when it sits beside a laptop computer — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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