DAILY NO. 27 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five geography objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 27, 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: the contiguous United States measures 4,500 km (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, Australia at 4,000 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 Australia — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Australia measures 4,000 km (length / span), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, the Moon at 3,474.8 km.
Australia is nearly as wide as the contiguous United States, with a tenth of the population.
Common miss: players tend to compress Australia when it sits beside the Moon — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Great Britain measures 1,000 km (height), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, Italy at 1,200 km.
About the straight-line distance from Land’s End to John o’ Groats.
Common miss: players tend to inflate Great Britain when it sits beside Italy — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Japan measures 3,000 km (height), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, Greenland at 2,670 km.
Japan’s island arc extends around 3,000 kilometres.
Common miss: players tend to compress Japan when it sits beside Greenland — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Brazil measures 4,320 km (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, the contiguous United States at 4,500 km.
Brazil is almost exactly as wide as it is tall — roughly 4,300 km either way.
Common miss: players tend to inflate Brazil when it sits beside the contiguous United States — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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