DAILY NO. 3 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The September 24, 2026 puzzle ran from a Saturn V rocket at 110.6 m to the Sun at 1,392,700 km — 7 orders of magnitude apart, drawing on space. The pair furthest apart was round 4: the Sun is 1097× as big as Texas.
Puzzle #3 asked about Saturn, a Saturn V rocket, the Moon, the Sun and Mars. 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: Saturn — 116,460 km. Saturn measures 116,460 km (length / span), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, Jupiter at 139,820 km.
Saturn is more than nine times wider than Earth.
Common miss: players tend to inflate Saturn when it sits beside Jupiter — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Saturn V Rocket — 110.6 m. A Saturn V rocket measures 110.6 m (height), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, the Statue of Liberty at 93 m.
Saturn V stood taller than the Statue of Liberty without its pedestal.
Common miss: players tend to compress a Saturn V rocket when it sits beside the Statue of Liberty — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: The Moon — 3,474.8 km. The Moon measures 3,474.8 km (length / span), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, the contiguous United States at 4,500 km.
The Moon’s mean diameter is about 3,475 kilometres.
Common miss: players tend to inflate the Moon when it sits beside the contiguous United States — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: The Sun — 1,392,700 km. The Sun measures 1,392,700 km (length / span), which is 1097× as big as the reference, Texas at 1,270 km.
The Sun is about 1.39 million kilometres in diameter.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Sun when it sits beside Texas — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Mars — 6,779 km. Mars measures 6,779 km (length / span), which is about 1.9× smaller than the reference, Earth at 12,742 km.
Mars is a little over half Earth’s diameter.
Common miss: players tend to inflate Mars when it sits beside Earth — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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