DAILY NO. 20 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five food & drink objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 20, 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: an apple measures 8 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a hockey puck at 7.6 cm.
Supermarket apples are graded by diameter, and 8 cm counts as a large one.
Common miss: players tend to compress an apple when it sits beside a hockey puck — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a French baguette measures 65 cm (length / span), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, a baseball bat at 86 cm.
French law fixes the baguette’s ingredients rather than its length, but 65 cm is the custom.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a French baguette when it sits beside a baseball bat — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a hamburger measures 10 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a monarch butterfly at 10 cm.
A patty shrinks by about a quarter on the grill, which is why the bun always looks oversized.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a hamburger when it sits beside a monarch butterfly — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a chocolate chip cookie measures 8 cm (length / span), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, a hamburger at 10 cm.
A bakery cookie spreads to roughly twice the diameter of the dough ball it started as.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a chocolate chip cookie when it sits beside a hamburger — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a hot dog measures 15 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a hard-shell taco at 15 cm.
The frank is made to match the bun, not the other way round.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a hot dog when it sits beside a hard-shell taco — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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