DAILY NO. 14 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five space objects from the Size It Up puzzle on October 5, 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.
The October 5, 2026 puzzle ran from the Perseverance rover at 3 m to the Sun at 1,392,700 km — 8 orders of magnitude apart, drawing on space. The pair furthest apart was round 5: the Sun is 154744444× as big as a Stegosaurus.
Answer: Perseverance Rover — 3 m. The Perseverance rover measures 3 m (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, a concert grand piano at 2.7 m.
Perseverance is about the length of a small car.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Perseverance rover when it sits beside a concert grand piano — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Saturn — 116,460 km. Saturn measures 116,460 km (length / span), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, Jupiter at 139,820 km.
Saturn is more than nine times wider than Earth.
Common miss: players tend to inflate Saturn when it sits beside Jupiter — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Mars — 6,779 km. Mars measures 6,779 km (length / span), which is 1.7× as big as the reference, Australia at 4,000 km.
Mars is a little over half Earth’s diameter.
Common miss: players tend to compress Mars when it sits beside Australia — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Jupiter — 139,820 km. Jupiter measures 139,820 km (length / span), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, Saturn at 116,460 km.
Jupiter is almost eleven times wider than Earth.
Common miss: players tend to compress Jupiter when it sits beside Saturn — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: The Sun — 1,392,700 km. The Sun measures 1,392,700 km (length / span), which is 154744444× as big as the reference, a Stegosaurus at 9 m.
The Sun is about 1.39 million kilometres in diameter.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Sun when it sits beside a Stegosaurus — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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