DAILY NO. 16 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five technology 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 smartwatch at 4.5 cm to a server rack at 2 m — about 44× apart, drawing on technology. The pair furthest apart was round 5: a smartwatch is about 2.1× smaller than a coffee mug.
Answer: PlayStation 5 — 39 cm. A PlayStation 5 measures 39 cm (height), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, a wine bottle at 30 cm.
The largest home console ever sold, almost entirely because of its cooling.
Common miss: players tend to compress a PlayStation 5 when it sits beside a wine bottle — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Laptop Computer — 35 cm. A laptop computer measures 35 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a large pizza at 35.6 cm.
Measured across the closed lid, not along the screen’s diagonal.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a laptop computer when it sits beside a large pizza — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Server Rack — 2 m. A server rack measures 2 m (height), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, a refrigerator at 1.8 m.
A full rack is commonly around two metres tall.
Common miss: players tend to compress a server rack when it sits beside a refrigerator — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Desktop Computer Tower — 45 cm. A desktop computer tower measures 45 cm (height), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, a PlayStation 5 at 39 cm.
Tower cases are sized around the motherboard, a standard barely changed since 1995.
Common miss: players tend to compress a desktop computer tower when it sits beside a PlayStation 5 — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Smartwatch — 4.5 cm. A smartwatch measures 4.5 cm (height), which is about 2.1× smaller than the reference, a coffee mug at 9.5 cm.
Watch cases are sold by case diameter in millimetres, and 45 mm is a large one.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a smartwatch when it sits beside a coffee mug — 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.