DAILY NO. 28 · 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 19, 2026 puzzle ran from a mirrorless camera at 13 cm to a server rack at 2 m — about 15× apart, drawing on technology. The pair furthest apart was round 2: a mirrorless camera is 1.6× as big as a chocolate chip cookie.
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: Mirrorless Camera — 13 cm. A mirrorless camera measures 13 cm (length / span), which is 1.6× as big as the reference, a chocolate chip cookie at 8 cm.
Dropping the mirror box let camera bodies shrink by about a third.
Common miss: players tend to compress a mirrorless camera when it sits beside a chocolate chip cookie — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Camera Drone — 35 cm. A camera drone measures 35 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a laptop computer at 35 cm.
Measured diagonally between motors, the dimension most drone regulations use.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a camera drone when it sits beside a laptop computer — 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 1.2× as big as the reference, a PlayStation 5 at 39 cm.
Tower cases are sized around the motherboard, a standard barely changed since 1995.
Common miss: players tend to compress a desktop computer tower when it sits beside a PlayStation 5 — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Server Rack — 2 m. A server rack measures 2 m (height), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a surfboard at 2 m.
A full rack is commonly around two metres tall.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a server rack when it sits beside a surfboard — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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