DAILY NO. 3 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The September 24, 2026 puzzle ran from a smartwatch at 4.5 cm to a desktop computer tower at 45 cm — about 10× apart, drawing on technology. The pair furthest apart was round 2: a smartwatch is about 3.3× smaller than a smartphone.
Puzzle #3 asked about a laptop computer, a smartwatch, a mirrorless camera, a computer keyboard and a desktop computer tower. 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: Laptop Computer — 35 cm. A laptop computer measures 35 cm (length / span), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, a computer keyboard at 44 cm.
Measured across the closed lid, not along the screen’s diagonal.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a laptop computer when it sits beside a computer keyboard — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Smartwatch — 4.5 cm. A smartwatch measures 4.5 cm (height), which is about 3.3× smaller than the reference, a smartphone at 14.7 cm.
Watch cases are sold by case diameter in millimetres, and 45 mm is a large one.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a smartwatch when it sits beside a smartphone — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Mirrorless Camera — 13 cm. A mirrorless camera measures 13 cm (length / span), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, a hot dog at 15 cm.
Dropping the mirror box let camera bodies shrink by about a third.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a mirrorless camera when it sits beside a hot dog — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Computer Keyboard — 44 cm. A computer keyboard measures 44 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a domestic cat at 46 cm.
Full-size boards owe their width to the number pad; tenkeyless models lose about 10 cm.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a computer keyboard when it sits beside a domestic cat — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Desktop Computer Tower — 45 cm. A desktop computer tower measures 45 cm (height), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, a PlayStation 5 at 39 cm.
Tower cases are sized around the motherboard, a standard barely changed since 1995.
Common miss: players tend to compress a desktop computer tower when it sits beside a PlayStation 5 — 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.