DAILY NO. 23 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five landmarks objects from the Size It Up puzzle on October 14, 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 14, 2026 puzzle ran from the Elizabeth Tower at 96 m to the Golden Gate Bridge at 2.7 km — about 29× apart, drawing on landmarks. The pair furthest apart was round 3: the Golden Gate Bridge is 39× as big as a Boeing 747.
Answer: Great Pyramid of Giza — 138.5 m. The Great Pyramid of Giza measures 138.5 m (height), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, a Saturn V rocket at 110.6 m.
Erosion has reduced the pyramid to about 138.5 metres today.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Great Pyramid of Giza when it sits beside a Saturn V rocket — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Elizabeth Tower — 96 m. The Elizabeth Tower measures 96 m (height), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, the Statue of Liberty at 93 m.
The clock tower commonly called Big Ben is 96 metres tall.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Elizabeth 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 39× as big as the reference, a Boeing 747 at 70.7 m.
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 Boeing 747 — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Gateway Arch — 192 m. The Gateway Arch measures 192 m (height), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, the Washington Monument at 169.3 m.
St Louis’s Gateway Arch is as wide as it is tall.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Gateway Arch when it sits beside the Washington Monument — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Hollywood Sign — 106.7 m. The Hollywood Sign measures 106.7 m (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, an American football field at 109.7 m.
The nine letters stretch about 107 metres across Mount Lee.
Common miss: players tend to inflate the Hollywood Sign when it sits beside an American football field — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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