DAILY NO. 39 · 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 30, 2026 puzzle ran from a smartwatch at 4.5 cm to a server rack at 2 m — about 44× apart, drawing on technology. The pair furthest apart was round 4: a smartwatch is about 2.1× smaller than a coffee mug.
Answer: Server Rack — 2 m. A server rack measures 2 m (height), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, a refrigerator at 1.8 m.
A full rack is commonly around two metres tall.
Common miss: players tend to compress a server rack when it sits beside a refrigerator — 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: Smartphone — 14.7 cm. A smartphone measures 14.7 cm (height), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, a light bulb at 11 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 light bulb — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Smartwatch — 4.5 cm. A smartwatch measures 4.5 cm (height), which is about 2.1× smaller than the reference, a coffee mug at 9.5 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 coffee mug — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Laptop Computer — 35 cm. A laptop computer measures 35 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a large pizza at 35.6 cm.
Measured across the closed lid, not along the screen’s diagonal.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a laptop computer when it sits beside a large pizza — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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