DAILY NO. 26 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five animals 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 golden retriever measures 94 cm (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, a baseball bat at 86 cm.
An adult Golden Retriever is close to a metre from nose to rump.
Common miss: players tend to compress a golden retriever when it sits beside a baseball bat — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a blue whale measures 25 m (length / span), which is 2× as big as the reference, a Tyrannosaurus rex at 12.3 m.
A blue whale can be longer than a basketball court.
Common miss: players tend to compress a blue whale when it sits beside a Tyrannosaurus rex — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a domestic cat measures 46 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a computer keyboard at 44 cm.
A cat’s body is about 46 cm long before its tail is counted.
Common miss: players tend to compress a domestic cat when it sits beside a computer keyboard — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a dairy cow measures 2.4 m (length / span), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, a concert grand piano at 2.7 m.
A full-grown dairy cow can be roughly 2.4 metres long.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a dairy cow when it sits beside a concert grand piano — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: an emperor penguin measures 1.1 m (height), which is about 1.8× smaller than the reference, a US interior door at 2 m.
The tallest living penguin reaches roughly 1.15 metres.
Common miss: players tend to inflate an emperor penguin when it sits beside a US interior door — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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