DAILY NO. 27 · 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 18, 2026 puzzle ran from Hawaiʻi Island at 150 km to Greenland at 2,670 km — about 18× apart, drawing on geography. The pair furthest apart was round 5: Hawaiʻi Island is 62500× as big as an adult horse.
Answer: Greenland — 2,670 km. Greenland measures 2,670 km (height), which is 2.2× as big as the reference, Italy at 1,200 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 Italy — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Italy — 1,200 km. Italy measures 1,200 km (height), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, Great Britain at 1,000 km.
Italy’s long axis is why the Alps and Sicily belong to the same country.
Common miss: players tend to compress Italy when it sits beside Great Britain — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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: Metropolitan France — 1,000 km. Metropolitan France measures 1,000 km (length / span), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, Texas at 1,270 km.
Metropolitan France is nicknamed the Hexagon; no side of it runs much beyond 1,000 km.
Common miss: players tend to inflate metropolitan France when it sits beside Texas — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Hawaiʻi Island — 150 km. Hawaiʻi Island measures 150 km (length / span), which is 62500× as big as the reference, an adult horse at 2.4 m.
The Big Island is larger than all the other Hawaiian islands combined, and still growing.
Common miss: players tend to compress Hawaiʻi Island when it sits beside an adult horse — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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