DAILY NO. 23 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five music 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 concert flute measures 67 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a French baguette at 65 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 French baguette — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a trumpet measures 48 cm (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, a computer keyboard at 44 cm.
About 1.5 m of tubing, wrapped into 48 cm of instrument.
Common miss: players tend to compress a trumpet when it sits beside a computer keyboard — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a trombone measures 90 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a baseball bat at 86 cm.
Measured closed — running the slide out to seventh position adds more than half a metre.
Common miss: players tend to compress a trombone when it sits beside a baseball bat — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a drum kit measures 1.5 m (length / span), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, a bathtub at 1.7 m.
Kit width is set by the bass drum and how far the drummer’s arms can reach.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a drum kit when it sits beside a bathtub — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a concert harp measures 1.9 m (height), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a refrigerator at 1.8 m.
Forty-seven strings holding close to a tonne of combined tension.
Common miss: players tend to compress a concert harp when it sits beside a refrigerator — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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