DAILY NO. 18 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
Today's five food & drink Size It Up comparisons with the measured size of each object, its reference and a source you can check. The puzzle is still live, so every answer stays hidden until you tap it. Haven't played yet? Play today's puzzle first.
The October 9, 2026 puzzle ran from an apple at 8 cm to a French baguette at 65 cm — about 8× apart, drawing on food & drink. The pair furthest apart was round 5: a French baguette is about 1.3× smaller than a baseball bat.
Answer: Watermelon — 40 cm. A watermelon measures 40 cm (length / span), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, a computer keyboard at 44 cm.
A whole watermelon is about 92% water, which accounts for most of its ten kilos.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a watermelon when it sits beside a computer keyboard — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Apple — 8 cm. An apple measures 8 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a hockey puck at 7.6 cm.
Supermarket apples are graded by diameter, and 8 cm counts as a large one.
Common miss: players tend to compress an apple when it sits beside a hockey puck — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Chocolate Chip Cookie — 8 cm. A chocolate chip cookie measures 8 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, an apple at 8 cm.
A bakery cookie spreads to roughly twice the diameter of the dough ball it started as.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a chocolate chip cookie when it sits beside an apple — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Hamburger — 10 cm. A hamburger measures 10 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a monarch butterfly at 10 cm.
A patty shrinks by about a quarter on the grill, which is why the bun always looks oversized.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a hamburger when it sits beside a monarch butterfly — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: French Baguette — 65 cm. A French baguette measures 65 cm (length / span), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, a baseball bat at 86 cm.
French law fixes the baguette’s ingredients rather than its length, but 65 cm is the custom.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a French baguette when it sits beside a baseball bat — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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