DAILY NO. 31 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
Today's five food & drink 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 22, 2026 puzzle ran from a chocolate chip cookie at 8 cm to a watermelon at 40 cm — about 5× apart, drawing on food & drink. The pair furthest apart was round 5: a large pizza is about 1.3× smaller than a domestic cat.
Answer: Birthday Cake — 25 cm. A birthday cake measures 25 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, an NBA basketball at 24.3 cm.
A 25 cm round is the standard “serves twelve” size.
Common miss: players tend to compress a birthday cake when it sits beside an NBA basketball — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Watermelon — 40 cm. A watermelon measures 40 cm (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, a large pizza at 35.6 cm.
A whole watermelon is about 92% water, which accounts for most of its ten kilos.
Common miss: players tend to compress a watermelon when it sits beside a large pizza — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Carrot — 20 cm. A carrot measures 20 cm (height), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a paperback book at 20 cm.
Supermarket carrots are pulled young — left in the ground they keep growing.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a carrot when it sits beside a paperback book — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Chocolate Chip Cookie — 8 cm. A chocolate chip cookie measures 8 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, an apple at 8 cm.
A bakery cookie spreads to roughly twice the diameter of the dough ball it started as.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a chocolate chip cookie when it sits beside an apple — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Large Pizza — 35.6 cm. A large pizza measures 35.6 cm (length / span), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, a domestic cat at 46 cm.
A 14-inch large pizza measures 35.6 cm across.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a large pizza when it sits beside a domestic cat — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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