DAILY NO. 43 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
Today's five food & drink 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 November 3, 2026 puzzle ran from a chocolate chip cookie at 8 cm to a wine bottle at 30 cm — about 4× apart, drawing on food & drink. The pair furthest apart was round 3: a wine bottle is 1.5× as big as a paperback book.
Answer: Ice Cream Cone — 17 cm. An ice cream cone measures 17 cm (height), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, a stage microphone at 18 cm.
Measured from the point to the top of the scoop, a cone stands taller than a soda can.
Common miss: players tend to inflate an ice cream cone when it sits beside a stage microphone — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Chocolate Chip Cookie — 8 cm. A chocolate chip cookie measures 8 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a hockey puck at 7.6 cm.
A bakery cookie spreads to roughly twice the diameter of the dough ball it started as.
Common miss: players tend to compress a chocolate chip cookie when it sits beside a hockey puck — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Wine Bottle — 30 cm. A wine bottle measures 30 cm (height), which is 1.5× as big as the reference, a paperback book at 20 cm.
Almost every 750 ml bottle is the same height, whatever the shape of its shoulders.
Common miss: players tend to compress a wine bottle when it sits beside a paperback book — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Apple — 8 cm. An apple measures 8 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a chocolate chip cookie at 8 cm.
Supermarket apples are graded by diameter, and 8 cm counts as a large one.
Common miss: players tend to inflate an apple when it sits beside a chocolate chip cookie — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Hard-Shell Taco — 15 cm. A hard-shell taco measures 15 cm (length / span), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, a game controller at 16 cm.
A hard shell is folded from a flat tortilla, so the shell is as wide as the tortilla was.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a hard-shell taco when it sits beside a game controller — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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