DAILY NO. 25 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five geography objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 25, 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: Manhattan Island measures 21.6 km (height), which is about 57.4× smaller than the reference, California at 1,240 km.
Manhattan is about 21.6 kilometres long.
Common miss: players tend to inflate Manhattan Island when it sits beside California — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: metropolitan France measures 1,000 km (length / span), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, Texas at 1,270 km.
Metropolitan France is nicknamed the Hexagon; no side of it runs much beyond 1,000 km.
Common miss: players tend to inflate metropolitan France when it sits beside Texas — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the contiguous United States measures 4,500 km (length / span), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, the Moon at 3,474.8 km.
The lower 48 stretch roughly 4,500 kilometres coast to coast.
Common miss: players tend to compress the contiguous United States when it sits beside the Moon — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Texas measures 1,270 km (length / span), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, metropolitan France at 1,000 km.
Texas stretches about 1,270 kilometres east to west.
Common miss: players tend to compress Texas when it sits beside metropolitan France — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Hawaiʻi Island measures 150 km (length / span), which is about 26.7× smaller than the reference, Australia at 4,000 km.
The Big Island is larger than all the other Hawaiian islands combined, and still growing.
Common miss: players tend to inflate Hawaiʻi Island when it sits beside Australia — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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