DAILY NO. 22 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five landmarks objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 22, 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: the Gateway Arch measures 192 m (height), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, the Washington Monument at 169.3 m.
St Louis’s Gateway Arch is as wide as it is tall.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Gateway Arch when it sits beside the Washington Monument — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Elizabeth Tower measures 96 m (height), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, the Statue of Liberty at 93 m.
The clock tower commonly called Big Ben is 96 metres tall.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Elizabeth Tower when it sits beside the Statue of Liberty — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Burj Khalifa measures 828 m (height), which is 1.9× as big as the reference, the Empire State Building at 443.2 m.
At 828 metres, Burj Khalifa is the tallest completed building.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Burj Khalifa when it sits beside the Empire State Building — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Washington Monument measures 169.3 m (height), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, the Space Needle at 184 m.
The marble changes shade a third of the way up, where construction stopped for over twenty years.
Common miss: players tend to inflate the Washington Monument when it sits beside the Space Needle — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Eiffel Tower measures 330 m (height), which is 1.7× as big as the reference, the Gateway Arch at 192 m.
The Eiffel Tower reaches about 330 metres including its antenna.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Eiffel Tower when it sits beside the Gateway Arch — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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