DAILY NO. 33 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
Today's five geography 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 24, 2026 puzzle ran from Manhattan Island at 21.6 km to Africa at 8,000 km — about 370× apart, drawing on geography. The pair furthest apart was round 1: Manhattan Island is 196364× as big as a light bulb.
Answer: Manhattan Island — 21.6 km. Manhattan Island measures 21.6 km (height), which is 196364× as big as the reference, a light bulb at 11 cm.
Manhattan is about 21.6 kilometres long.
Common miss: players tend to compress Manhattan Island when it sits beside a light bulb — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Brazil — 4,320 km. Brazil measures 4,320 km (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, Australia at 4,000 km.
Brazil is almost exactly as wide as it is tall — roughly 4,300 km either way.
Common miss: players tend to compress Brazil when it sits beside Australia — 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: 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: Greenland — 2,670 km. Greenland measures 2,670 km (height), which is 2.7× as big as the reference, Great Britain at 1,000 km.
The span is real, but Mercator maps still inflate Greenland’s area by about fourteen times.
Common miss: players tend to compress Greenland when it sits beside Great Britain — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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