DAILY NO. 29 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five geography objects from the Size It Up puzzle on October 20, 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 20, 2026 puzzle ran from Hawaiʻi Island at 150 km to Africa at 8,000 km — about 53× apart, drawing on geography. The pair furthest apart was round 4: Hawaiʻi Island is about 6.7× smaller than metropolitan France.
Answer: Australia — 4,000 km. Australia measures 4,000 km (length / span), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, the contiguous United States at 4,500 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 the contiguous United States — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Africa — 8,000 km. Africa measures 8,000 km (height), which is 2.7× as big as the reference, Japan at 3,000 km.
Africa spans roughly 8,000 kilometres from north to south.
Common miss: players tend to compress Africa when it sits beside Japan — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Great Britain — 1,000 km. Great Britain measures 1,000 km (height), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, California at 1,240 km.
About the straight-line distance from Land’s End to John o’ Groats.
Common miss: players tend to inflate Great Britain when it sits beside California — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Hawaiʻi Island — 150 km. Hawaiʻi Island measures 150 km (length / span), which is about 6.7× smaller than the reference, metropolitan France at 1,000 km.
The Big Island is larger than all the other Hawaiian islands combined, and still growing.
Common miss: players tend to inflate Hawaiʻi Island when it sits beside metropolitan France — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Texas — 1,270 km. Texas measures 1,270 km (length / span), which is about 3.1× smaller than the reference, Australia at 4,000 km.
Texas stretches about 1,270 kilometres east to west.
Common miss: players tend to inflate Texas when it sits beside Australia — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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