DAILY NO. 23 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 23, 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 grizzly bear measures 2 m (length / span), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, an adult horse at 2.4 m.
A grizzly can measure about two metres from nose to rump.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a grizzly bear when it sits beside an adult horse — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a high-speed train measures 200 m (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, the Roman Colosseum at 189 m.
A complete high-speed trainset can be around 200 metres long.
Common miss: players tend to compress a high-speed train when it sits beside the Roman Colosseum — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a Goliath beetle measures 11 cm (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, a monarch butterfly at 10 cm.
Among the heaviest insects alive — the larvae can reach 100 g.
Common miss: players tend to compress a Goliath beetle when it sits beside a monarch butterfly — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a concert harp measures 1.9 m (height), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, a US interior door at 2 m.
Forty-seven strings holding close to a tonne of combined tension.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a concert harp when it sits beside a US interior door — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: an Allosaurus measures 8.5 m (length / span), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, a Triceratops at 9 m.
The common large predator of its day: far more Allosaurus fossils exist than T. rex ones.
Common miss: players tend to inflate an Allosaurus when it sits beside a Triceratops — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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