DAILY NO. 26 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 26, 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: a hockey stick measures 1.6 m (height), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, a refrigerator at 1.8 m.
A stick is fitted to reach between the chin and the nose when the player is standing on skates.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a hockey stick when it sits beside a refrigerator — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Sun measures 1,392,700 km (length / span), which is 401× as big as the reference, the Moon at 3,474.8 km.
The Sun is about 1.39 million kilometres in diameter.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Sun when it sits beside the Moon — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: an adult giraffe measures 5.2 m (height), which is 2.6× as big as the reference, a US interior door at 2 m.
Adult giraffes commonly stand between 4.5 and 5.5 metres tall.
Common miss: players tend to compress an adult giraffe when it sits beside a US interior door — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a mirrorless camera measures 13 cm (length / span), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, a hamburger at 10 cm.
Dropping the mirror box let camera bodies shrink by about a third.
Common miss: players tend to compress a mirrorless camera when it sits beside a hamburger — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a giant centipede measures 30 cm (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, an American football at 28 cm.
Scolopendra gigantea hunts bats in mid-air, plucking them from cave ceilings.
Common miss: players tend to compress a giant centipede when it sits beside an American football — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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