DAILY NO. 21 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five technology 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 camera drone measures 35 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a large pizza at 35.6 cm.
Measured diagonally between motors, the dimension most drone regulations use.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a camera drone when it sits beside a large pizza — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a smartphone measures 14.7 cm (height), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, a stage microphone at 18 cm.
Phones stopped growing at roughly the limit of what a thumb can reach one-handed.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a smartphone when it sits beside a stage microphone — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a mirrorless camera measures 13 cm (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, a large dragonfly at 12 cm.
Dropping the mirror box let camera bodies shrink by about a third.
Common miss: players tend to compress a mirrorless camera when it sits beside a large dragonfly — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a 55-inch television measures 1.2 m (length / span), which is 1.4× as big as the reference, a baseball bat at 86 cm.
A 55-inch TV is 55 inches corner to corner; across the front it is only about 1.2 m.
Common miss: players tend to compress a 55-inch television when it sits beside a baseball bat — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a laptop computer measures 35 cm (length / span), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, a domestic cat at 46 cm.
Measured across the closed lid, not along the screen’s diagonal.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a laptop computer when it sits beside a domestic cat — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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