DAILY NO. 45 · 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 November 5, 2026 puzzle ran from a smartwatch at 4.5 cm to a PlayStation 5 at 39 cm — about 9× apart, drawing on technology. The pair furthest apart was round 3: a smartwatch is about 2.1× smaller than a coffee mug.
Answer: Mirrorless Camera — 13 cm. A mirrorless camera measures 13 cm (length / span), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, a hamburger at 10 cm.
Dropping the mirror box let camera bodies shrink by about a third.
Common miss: players tend to compress a mirrorless camera when it sits beside a hamburger — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Laptop Computer — 35 cm. A laptop computer measures 35 cm (length / span), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, a computer keyboard at 44 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 computer keyboard — 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: PlayStation 5 — 39 cm. A PlayStation 5 measures 39 cm (height), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, a wine bottle at 30 cm.
The largest home console ever sold, almost entirely because of its cooling.
Common miss: players tend to compress a PlayStation 5 when it sits beside a wine bottle — 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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