DAILY NO. 51 · 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 11, 2026 puzzle ran from an apple at 8 cm to a cheese wheel at 36 cm — about 5× apart, drawing on food & drink. The pair furthest apart was round 4: a cheese wheel is about 1.3× smaller than a domestic cat.
Answer: Ice Cream Cone — 17 cm. An ice cream cone measures 17 cm (height), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, a smartphone at 14.7 cm.
Measured from the point to the top of the scoop, a cone stands taller than a soda can.
Common miss: players tend to compress an ice cream cone when it sits beside a smartphone — 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: Chocolate Chip Cookie — 8 cm. A chocolate chip cookie measures 8 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, an apple at 8 cm.
A bakery cookie spreads to roughly twice the diameter of the dough ball it started as.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a chocolate chip cookie when it sits beside an apple — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Cheese Wheel — 36 cm. A cheese wheel measures 36 cm (length / span), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, a domestic cat at 46 cm.
A whole Parmigiano Reggiano wheel weighs close to 40 kg and ages for at least twelve months.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a cheese wheel when it sits beside a domestic cat — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Carrot — 20 cm. A carrot measures 20 cm (height), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a paperback book at 20 cm.
Supermarket carrots are pulled young — left in the ground they keep growing.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a carrot when it sits beside a paperback book — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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