DAILY NO. 25 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
Today's five geography Size It Up comparisons with the measured size of each object, its reference and a source you can check. The puzzle is still live, so every answer stays hidden until you tap it. Haven't played yet? Play today's puzzle first.
The October 16, 2026 puzzle ran from Italy at 1,200 km to Australia at 4,000 km — about 3× apart, drawing on geography. The pair furthest apart was round 3: Greenland is 2.7× as big as Great Britain.
Answer: Texas — 1,270 km. Texas measures 1,270 km (length / span), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, metropolitan France at 1,000 km.
Texas stretches about 1,270 kilometres east to west.
Common miss: players tend to compress Texas when it sits beside metropolitan France — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Italy — 1,200 km. Italy measures 1,200 km (height), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, California at 1,240 km.
Italy’s long axis is why the Alps and Sicily belong to the same country.
Common miss: players tend to inflate Italy when it sits beside California — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Greenland — 2,670 km. Greenland measures 2,670 km (height), which is 2.7× as big as the reference, Great Britain at 1,000 km.
The span is real, but Mercator maps still inflate Greenland’s area by about fourteen times.
Common miss: players tend to compress Greenland when it sits beside Great Britain — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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.
Common miss: players tend to inflate Australia when it sits beside Brazil — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: California — 1,240 km. California measures 1,240 km (height), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, Italy at 1,200 km.
California is roughly 1,240 kilometres from north to south.
Common miss: players tend to compress California when it sits beside Italy — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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