DAILY NO. 20 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five technology 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 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 1: a smartwatch is about 2.7× smaller than a soda can.
Answer: Smartwatch — 4.5 cm. A smartwatch measures 4.5 cm (height), which is about 2.7× smaller than the reference, a soda can at 12.2 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 soda can — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Smartphone — 14.7 cm. A smartphone measures 14.7 cm (height), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, a stage microphone at 18 cm.
Phones stopped growing at roughly the limit of what a thumb can reach one-handed.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a smartphone when it sits beside a stage microphone — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Server Rack — 2 m. A server rack measures 2 m (height), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a US interior door at 2 m.
A full rack is commonly around two metres tall.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a server rack when it sits beside a US interior door — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Camera Drone — 35 cm. A camera drone measures 35 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a large pizza at 35.6 cm.
Measured diagonally between motors, the dimension most drone regulations use.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a camera drone when it sits beside a large pizza — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Computer Keyboard — 44 cm. A computer keyboard measures 44 cm (length / span), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, a laptop computer at 35 cm.
Full-size boards owe their width to the number pad; tenkeyless models lose about 10 cm.
Common miss: players tend to compress a computer keyboard when it sits beside a laptop computer — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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