DAILY NO. 32 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS

Size It Up answers – October 2, 2026

The five dinosaurs objects from the Size It Up puzzle on October 2, 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.

ROUND 1

Stegosaurus — 9 m

Answer: a Stegosaurus measures 9 m (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a Triceratops at 9 m.

A brain the size of a lime, in a body as long as a bus.

Common miss: players tend to inflate a Stegosaurus when it sits beside a Triceratops — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.

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ROUND 2

Spinosaurus — 15 m

Answer: a Spinosaurus measures 15 m (length / span), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, a Tyrannosaurus rex at 12.3 m.

The longest predatory dinosaur known, and probably one that spent much of its life in water.

Common miss: players tend to compress a Spinosaurus when it sits beside a Tyrannosaurus rex — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.

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ROUND 3

Parasaurolophus — 9.5 m

Answer: a Parasaurolophus measures 9.5 m (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, a Stegosaurus at 9 m.

The hollow head crest may have worked like a trumpet.

Common miss: players tend to compress a Parasaurolophus when it sits beside a Stegosaurus — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.

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ROUND 4

Pteranodon Wingspan — 6 m

Answer: a Pteranodon wingspan measures 6 m (length / span), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, a family sedan at 4.6 m.

Measured across the wings — a span no living bird comes close to.

Common miss: players tend to compress a Pteranodon wingspan when it sits beside a family sedan — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.

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ROUND 5

Iguanodon — 10 m

Answer: an Iguanodon measures 10 m (length / span), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, an American school bus at 10.7 m.

Its thumb spike was first reconstructed, wrongly, as a horn on the nose.

Common miss: players tend to inflate an Iguanodon when it sits beside an American school bus — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.

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