DAILY NO. 23 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five music 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 a stage microphone at 18 cm to a concert grand piano at 2.7 m — about 15× apart, drawing on music. The pair furthest apart was round 4: an alto saxophone is about 1.4× smaller than an acoustic guitar.
Answer: Concert Grand Piano — 2.7 m. A concert grand piano measures 2.7 m (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, an adult horse at 2.4 m.
A concert grand can be more than 2.7 metres long.
Common miss: players tend to compress a concert grand piano when it sits beside an adult horse — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Trombone — 90 cm. A trombone measures 90 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a baseball bat at 86 cm.
Measured closed — running the slide out to seventh position adds more than half a metre.
Common miss: players tend to compress a trombone when it sits beside a baseball bat — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Stage Microphone — 18 cm. A stage microphone measures 18 cm (height), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, a paperback book at 20 cm.
A handheld vocal mic is sized around the grip, not the capsule inside it.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a stage microphone when it sits beside a paperback book — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Alto Saxophone — 74 cm. An alto saxophone measures 74 cm (height), which is about 1.4× smaller than the reference, an acoustic guitar at 1 m.
The bend and the bell fold more than a metre of tubing into 74 cm of instrument.
Common miss: players tend to inflate an alto saxophone when it sits beside an acoustic guitar — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Concert Tuba — 1 m. A concert tuba measures 1 m (height), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, a cello at 1.2 m.
Up to 5.5 m of tubing, wrapped into about a metre of instrument.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a concert tuba when it sits beside a cello — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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