DAILY NO. 38 · 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 29, 2026 puzzle ran from a smartwatch at 4.5 cm to a desktop computer tower at 45 cm — about 10× apart, drawing on technology. The pair furthest apart was round 4: a smartwatch is about 3.3× smaller than a smartphone.
Answer: Smartphone — 14.7 cm. A smartphone measures 14.7 cm (height), which is 1.5× as big as the reference, a coffee mug at 9.5 cm.
Phones stopped growing at roughly the limit of what a thumb can reach one-handed.
Common miss: players tend to compress a smartphone when it sits beside a coffee mug — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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: Desktop Computer Tower — 45 cm. A desktop computer tower measures 45 cm (height), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, a PlayStation 5 at 39 cm.
Tower cases are sized around the motherboard, a standard barely changed since 1995.
Common miss: players tend to compress a desktop computer tower when it sits beside a PlayStation 5 — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Smartwatch — 4.5 cm. A smartwatch measures 4.5 cm (height), which is about 3.3× smaller than the reference, a smartphone at 14.7 cm.
Watch cases are sold by case diameter in millimetres, and 45 mm is a large one.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a smartwatch when it sits beside a smartphone — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Laptop Computer — 35 cm. A laptop computer measures 35 cm (length / span), which is 1.4× as big as the reference, an NBA basketball at 24.3 cm.
Measured across the closed lid, not along the screen’s diagonal.
Common miss: players tend to compress a laptop computer when it sits beside an NBA basketball — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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