DAILY NO. 27 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
Today's five technology 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 a game controller at 16 cm to an office printer at 45 cm — about 3× apart, drawing on technology. The pair furthest apart was round 2: a desktop computer tower is about 1.3× smaller than a violin.
Answer: Game Controller — 16 cm. A game controller measures 16 cm (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, a hard-shell taco at 15 cm.
Controller width has hardly moved since the 1990s — hands did not get bigger.
Common miss: players tend to compress a game controller when it sits beside a hard-shell taco — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Desktop Computer Tower — 45 cm. A desktop computer tower measures 45 cm (height), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, a violin at 59 cm.
Tower cases are sized around the motherboard, a standard barely changed since 1995.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a desktop computer tower when it sits beside a violin — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Computer Keyboard — 44 cm. A computer keyboard measures 44 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, an office printer at 45 cm.
Full-size boards owe their width to the number pad; tenkeyless models lose about 10 cm.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a computer keyboard when it sits beside an office printer — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Office Printer — 45 cm. An office printer measures 45 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a computer keyboard at 44 cm.
Width is set by the paper path — A4 and Letter need the same clearance.
Common miss: players tend to compress an office printer when it sits beside a computer keyboard — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: PlayStation 5 — 39 cm. A PlayStation 5 measures 39 cm (height), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, a wine bottle at 30 cm.
The largest home console ever sold, almost entirely because of its cooling.
Common miss: players tend to compress a PlayStation 5 when it sits beside a wine bottle — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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