DAILY NO. 29 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five music 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 a trumpet at 48 cm to a concert grand piano at 2.7 m — about 6× apart, drawing on music. The pair furthest apart was round 1: a concert grand piano is 1.3× as big as a queen bed.
Answer: Concert Grand Piano — 2.7 m. A concert grand piano measures 2.7 m (length / span), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, a queen bed at 2 m.
A concert grand can be more than 2.7 metres long.
Common miss: players tend to compress a concert grand piano when it sits beside a queen bed — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Concert Harp — 1.9 m. A concert harp measures 1.9 m (height), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a refrigerator at 1.8 m.
Forty-seven strings holding close to a tonne of combined tension.
Common miss: players tend to compress a concert harp when it sits beside a refrigerator — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Concert Tuba — 1 m. A concert tuba measures 1 m (height), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, an acoustic guitar at 1 m.
Up to 5.5 m of tubing, wrapped into about a metre of instrument.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a concert tuba when it sits beside an acoustic guitar — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Trombone — 90 cm. A trombone measures 90 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a baseball bat at 86 cm.
Measured closed — running the slide out to seventh position adds more than half a metre.
Common miss: players tend to compress a trombone when it sits beside a baseball bat — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Trumpet — 48 cm. A trumpet measures 48 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a domestic cat at 46 cm.
About 1.5 m of tubing, wrapped into 48 cm of instrument.
Common miss: players tend to compress a trumpet when it sits beside a domestic cat — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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