DAILY NO. 29 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five technology 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 mirrorless camera at 13 cm to a server rack at 2 m — about 15× apart, drawing on technology. The pair furthest apart was round 4: a camera drone is about 1.3× smaller than a computer keyboard.
Answer: Mirrorless Camera — 13 cm. A mirrorless camera measures 13 cm (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, a large dragonfly at 12 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 large dragonfly — 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 US interior door 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 US interior door — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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: Camera Drone — 35 cm. A camera drone measures 35 cm (length / span), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, a computer keyboard at 44 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 computer keyboard — 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 domestic cat at 46 cm.
Width is set by the paper path — A4 and Letter need the same clearance.
Common miss: players tend to inflate an office printer when it sits beside a domestic cat — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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