DAILY NO. 22 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five space 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 the International Space Station at 109 m to the Sun at 1,392,700 km — 7 orders of magnitude apart, drawing on space. The pair furthest apart was round 5: the Sun is 13927000000× as big as a monarch butterfly.
Answer: The Moon — 3,474.8 km. The Moon measures 3,474.8 km (length / span), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, Australia at 4,000 km.
The Moon’s mean diameter is about 3,475 kilometres.
Common miss: players tend to inflate the Moon when it sits beside Australia — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: International Space Station — 109 m. The International Space Station measures 109 m (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, an American football field at 109.7 m.
The ISS spans roughly 109 metres across its solar arrays.
Common miss: players tend to inflate the International Space Station when it sits beside an American football field — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Earth — 12,742 km. Earth measures 12,742 km (length / span), which is 2.8× as big as the reference, the contiguous United States at 4,500 km.
Earth is about 12,742 kilometres across.
Common miss: players tend to compress Earth when it sits beside the contiguous United States — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Saturn — 116,460 km. Saturn measures 116,460 km (length / span), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, Jupiter at 139,820 km.
Saturn is more than nine times wider than Earth.
Common miss: players tend to inflate Saturn when it sits beside Jupiter — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: The Sun — 1,392,700 km. The Sun measures 1,392,700 km (length / span), which is 13927000000× as big as the reference, a monarch butterfly at 10 cm.
The Sun is about 1.39 million kilometres in diameter.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Sun when it sits beside a monarch butterfly — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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