DAILY NO. 16 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five music objects from the Size It Up puzzle on October 7, 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 7, 2026 puzzle ran from a trumpet at 48 cm to a concert harp at 1.9 m — about 4× apart, drawing on music. The pair furthest apart was round 3: a drum kit is about 1.4× smaller than a queen bed.
Answer: Alto Saxophone — 74 cm. An alto saxophone measures 74 cm (height), which is about 1.4× smaller than the reference, an acoustic guitar at 1 m.
The bend and the bell fold more than a metre of tubing into 74 cm of instrument.
Common miss: players tend to inflate an alto saxophone when it sits beside an acoustic guitar — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Trumpet — 48 cm. A trumpet measures 48 cm (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, a computer keyboard at 44 cm.
About 1.5 m of tubing, wrapped into 48 cm of instrument.
Common miss: players tend to compress a trumpet when it sits beside a computer keyboard — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Drum Kit — 1.5 m. A drum kit measures 1.5 m (length / span), which is about 1.4× smaller than the reference, a queen bed at 2 m.
Kit width is set by the bass drum and how far the drummer’s arms can reach.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a drum kit when it sits beside a queen bed — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Concert Harp — 1.9 m. A concert harp measures 1.9 m (height), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, a US interior door at 2 m.
Forty-seven strings holding close to a tonne of combined tension.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a concert harp when it sits beside a US interior door — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Trombone — 90 cm. A trombone measures 90 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a baseball bat at 86 cm.
Measured closed — running the slide out to seventh position adds more than half a metre.
Common miss: players tend to compress a trombone when it sits beside a baseball bat — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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