DAILY NO. 40 · 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 31, 2026 puzzle ran from a smartwatch at 4.5 cm to an office printer at 45 cm — about 10× apart, drawing on technology. The pair furthest apart was round 2: a smartwatch is about 2.4× smaller than a light bulb.
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: Smartwatch — 4.5 cm. A smartwatch measures 4.5 cm (height), which is about 2.4× smaller than the reference, a light bulb at 11 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 light bulb — 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: 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.
Answer: Smartphone — 14.7 cm. A smartphone measures 14.7 cm (height), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, a soda can at 12.2 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 soda can — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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