DAILY NO. 21 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five music objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 21, 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 trombone measures 90 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a golden retriever at 94 cm.
Measured closed — running the slide out to seventh position adds more than half a metre.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a trombone when it sits beside a golden retriever — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a concert flute measures 67 cm (length / span), which is 1.5× as big as the reference, a domestic cat at 46 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 domestic cat — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a double bass measures 1.8 m (height), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a refrigerator at 1.8 m.
Tall enough that players either stand or perch on a stool.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a double bass when it sits beside a refrigerator — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a concert tuba measures 1 m (height), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, a dining chair at 90 cm.
Up to 5.5 m of tubing, wrapped into about a metre of instrument.
Common miss: players tend to compress a concert tuba when it sits beside a dining chair — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: an alto saxophone measures 74 cm (height), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, a violin at 59 cm.
The bend and the bell fold more than a metre of tubing into 74 cm of instrument.
Common miss: players tend to compress an alto saxophone when it sits beside a violin — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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