DAILY NO. 3 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The September 24, 2026 puzzle ran from a Velociraptor at 2 m to a Brachiosaurus at 22 m — about 11× apart, drawing on dinosaurs. The pair furthest apart was round 4: a Brachiosaurus is 1.5× as big as a Spinosaurus.
Puzzle #3 asked about a Spinosaurus, an Ankylosaurus, a Velociraptor, a Brachiosaurus and an Iguanodon. 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: Spinosaurus — 15 m. A Spinosaurus measures 15 m (length / span), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, a Tyrannosaurus rex at 12.3 m.
The longest predatory dinosaur known, and probably one that spent much of its life in water.
Common miss: players tend to compress a Spinosaurus when it sits beside a Tyrannosaurus rex — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Ankylosaurus — 8 m. An Ankylosaurus measures 8 m (length / span), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, a Stegosaurus at 9 m.
The tail club weighed tens of kilos and could swing hard enough to break bone.
Common miss: players tend to inflate an Ankylosaurus when it sits beside a Stegosaurus — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Velociraptor — 2 m. A Velociraptor measures 2 m (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a queen bed at 2 m.
Real Velociraptors were closer to turkey-sized than movie monsters.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a Velociraptor when it sits beside a queen bed — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Brachiosaurus — 22 m. A Brachiosaurus measures 22 m (length / span), which is 1.5× as big as the reference, a Spinosaurus at 15 m.
Brachiosaurus held its neck upward, making it far taller than long-tailed sauropods of similar length.
Common miss: players tend to compress a Brachiosaurus when it sits beside a Spinosaurus — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Iguanodon — 10 m. An Iguanodon measures 10 m (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, a Triceratops at 9 m.
Its thumb spike was first reconstructed, wrongly, as a horn on the nose.
Common miss: players tend to compress an Iguanodon when it sits beside a Triceratops — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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