DAILY NO. 15 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five space objects from the Size It Up puzzle on October 6, 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 6, 2026 puzzle ran from the Perseverance rover at 3 m to Earth at 12,742 km — 6 orders of magnitude apart, drawing on space. The pair furthest apart was round 4: Earth is 3.7× as big as the Moon.
Answer: Mars — 6,779 km. Mars measures 6,779 km (length / span), which is 1.5× as big as the reference, the contiguous United States at 4,500 km.
Mars is a little over half Earth’s diameter.
Common miss: players tend to compress Mars when it sits beside the contiguous United States — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Saturn V Rocket — 110.6 m. A Saturn V rocket measures 110.6 m (height), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, the Statue of Liberty at 93 m.
Saturn V stood taller than the Statue of Liberty without its pedestal.
Common miss: players tend to compress a Saturn V rocket when it sits beside the Statue of Liberty — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: International Space Station — 109 m. The International Space Station measures 109 m (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, the Hollywood Sign at 106.7 m.
The ISS spans roughly 109 metres across its solar arrays.
Common miss: players tend to compress the International Space Station when it sits beside the Hollywood Sign — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Earth — 12,742 km. Earth measures 12,742 km (length / span), which is 3.7× as big as the reference, the Moon at 3,474.8 km.
Earth is about 12,742 kilometres across.
Common miss: players tend to compress Earth when it sits beside the Moon — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Perseverance Rover — 3 m. The Perseverance rover measures 3 m (length / span), which is 1.5× as big as the reference, a queen bed at 2 m.
Perseverance is about the length of a small car.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Perseverance rover when it sits beside a queen bed — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Sizes are measured along the axis named in each round and link to their published source. Explore the full library by category, or read how scoring works.