DAILY NO. 3 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The September 24, 2026 puzzle ran from the Mount Rushmore faces at 18.3 m to the Gateway Arch at 192 m — about 10× apart, drawing on landmarks. The pair furthest apart was round 3: the Mount Rushmore faces is about 5.1× smaller than the Statue of Liberty.
Puzzle #3 asked about the Gateway Arch, the Hollywood Sign, the Mount Rushmore faces, the Washington Monument and the Roman Colosseum. 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: Gateway Arch — 192 m. The Gateway Arch measures 192 m (height), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, the Space Needle at 184 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 Space Needle — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Hollywood Sign — 106.7 m. The Hollywood Sign measures 106.7 m (length / span), which is 1.5× as big as the reference, a Boeing 747 at 70.7 m.
The nine letters stretch about 107 metres across Mount Lee.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Hollywood Sign when it sits beside a Boeing 747 — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Mount Rushmore Faces — 18.3 m. The Mount Rushmore faces measures 18.3 m (height), which is about 5.1× smaller than the reference, the Statue of Liberty at 93 m.
Each carved presidential head is about 18 metres tall.
Common miss: players tend to inflate the Mount Rushmore faces when it sits beside the Statue of Liberty — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Washington Monument — 169.3 m. The Washington Monument measures 169.3 m (height), which is 1.5× as big as the reference, a Saturn V rocket at 110.6 m.
The marble changes shade a third of the way up, where construction stopped for over twenty years.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Washington Monument when it sits beside a Saturn V rocket — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Roman Colosseum — 189 m. The Roman Colosseum measures 189 m (length / span), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, a high-speed train at 200 m.
The ancient amphitheatre is roughly 189 metres along its longest axis.
Common miss: players tend to inflate the Roman Colosseum when it sits beside a high-speed train — 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.