DAILY NO. 20 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five landmarks objects from the Size It Up puzzle on October 11, 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 11, 2026 puzzle ran from the Washington Monument at 169.3 m to the Golden Gate Bridge at 2.7 km — about 16× apart, drawing on landmarks. The pair furthest apart was round 5: the Golden Gate Bridge is 7820× as big as a laptop computer.
Answer: Empire State Building — 443.2 m. The Empire State Building measures 443.2 m (height), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, the Eiffel Tower at 330 m.
It reaches 443.2 metres to the tip of its antenna.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Empire State Building when it sits beside the Eiffel Tower — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Burj Khalifa — 828 m. The Burj Khalifa measures 828 m (height), which is 1.9× as big as the reference, the Empire State Building at 443.2 m.
At 828 metres, Burj Khalifa is the tallest completed building.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Burj Khalifa when it sits beside the Empire State Building — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Washington Monument — 169.3 m. The Washington Monument measures 169.3 m (height), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, the Space Needle at 184 m.
The marble changes shade a third of the way up, where construction stopped for over twenty years.
Common miss: players tend to inflate the Washington Monument when it sits beside the Space Needle — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Eiffel Tower — 330 m. The Eiffel Tower measures 330 m (height), which is 3.5× as big as the reference, the Statue of Liberty at 93 m.
The Eiffel Tower reaches about 330 metres including its antenna.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Eiffel Tower when it sits beside the Statue of Liberty — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Golden Gate Bridge — 2.7 km. The Golden Gate Bridge measures 2.7 km (length / span), which is 7820× as big as the reference, a laptop computer at 35 cm.
The full bridge is 2.737 kilometres from abutment to abutment.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Golden Gate Bridge when it sits beside a laptop computer — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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