DAILY NO. 2 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The September 23, 2026 puzzle ran from a chocolate chip cookie at 8 cm to a French baguette at 65 cm — about 8× apart, drawing on food & drink. The pair furthest apart was round 2: a wine bottle is 1.7× as big as a stage microphone.
Puzzle #2 asked about a cheese wheel, a wine bottle, a chocolate chip cookie, a French baguette and a birthday cake. Each answer below gives the measured size, the reference it stood beside and the source behind the number. Want the surprise first? Replay this puzzle — archived days never touch your streak.
Answer: Cheese Wheel — 36 cm. A cheese wheel measures 36 cm (length / span), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, an American football at 28 cm.
A whole Parmigiano Reggiano wheel weighs close to 40 kg and ages for at least twelve months.
Common miss: players tend to compress a cheese wheel when it sits beside an American football — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Wine Bottle — 30 cm. A wine bottle measures 30 cm (height), which is 1.7× as big as the reference, a stage microphone at 18 cm.
Almost every 750 ml bottle is the same height, whatever the shape of its shoulders.
Common miss: players tend to compress a wine bottle when it sits beside a stage microphone — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Chocolate Chip Cookie — 8 cm. A chocolate chip cookie measures 8 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a hockey puck at 7.6 cm.
A bakery cookie spreads to roughly twice the diameter of the dough ball it started as.
Common miss: players tend to compress a chocolate chip cookie when it sits beside a hockey puck — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: French Baguette — 65 cm. A French baguette measures 65 cm (length / span), which is 1.5× as big as the reference, a computer keyboard at 44 cm.
French law fixes the baguette’s ingredients rather than its length, but 65 cm is the custom.
Common miss: players tend to compress a French baguette when it sits beside a computer keyboard — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Birthday Cake — 25 cm. A birthday cake measures 25 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, an NBA basketball at 24.3 cm.
A 25 cm round is the standard “serves twelve” size.
Common miss: players tend to compress a birthday cake when it sits beside an NBA basketball — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Sizes are measured along the axis named in each round and link to their published source. Explore the full library by category, or read how scoring works.