DAILY NO. 31 · 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 22, 2026 puzzle ran from a mirrorless camera at 13 cm to a desktop computer tower at 45 cm — about 3× apart, drawing on technology. The pair furthest apart was round 4: a desktop computer tower is about 1.3× smaller than a violin.
Answer: Mirrorless Camera — 13 cm. A mirrorless camera measures 13 cm (length / span), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, a game controller at 16 cm.
Dropping the mirror box let camera bodies shrink by about a third.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a mirrorless camera when it sits beside a game controller — 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 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: Game Controller — 16 cm. A game controller measures 16 cm (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, a hot dog 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 hot dog — 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 about 1.3× smaller than the reference, a violin at 59 cm.
Tower cases are sized around the motherboard, a standard barely changed since 1995.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a desktop computer tower when it sits beside a violin — 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.
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