DAILY NO. 22 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five objects from the Size It Up puzzle on October 13, 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 13, 2026 puzzle ran from a soda can at 12.2 cm to Australia at 4,000 km — 7 orders of magnitude apart, drawing on music, everyday, animals, geography, food & drink. The pair furthest apart was round 3: an adult horse is 1.2× as big as a queen bed.
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.
How people guessed: across 23 runs the typical guess was 1.9 m — almost exactly right.
Answer: Soda Can — 12.2 cm. A soda can measures 12.2 cm (height), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, a light bulb at 11 cm.
The 330 ml can has kept essentially the same silhouette since 1963.
How people guessed: across 23 runs the typical guess was 14.2 cm — 16% too large.
Answer: Adult Horse — 2.4 m. An adult horse measures 2.4 m (length / span), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, a queen bed at 2 m.
A riding horse is roughly as long as a dairy cow.
How people guessed: across 23 runs the typical guess was 2.7 m — 11% too large.
Answer: Australia — 4,000 km. Australia measures 4,000 km (length / span), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, Brazil at 4,320 km.
Australia is nearly as wide as the contiguous United States, with a tenth of the population.
How people guessed: across 23 runs the typical guess was 4,007.4 km — almost exactly right.
Answer: Carrot — 20 cm. A carrot measures 20 cm (height), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a paperback book at 20 cm.
Supermarket carrots are pulled young — left in the ground they keep growing.
How people guessed: across 23 runs the typical guess was 19.1 cm — almost exactly right.
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