ALL ANSWERS · EVERYDAY OBJECTS · DAILY No. 28 · OCTOBER 1, 2026
Size It Up Everyday Objects answer: October 1
The five Everyday Objects silhouettes for October 1, with the true sizes. If you have not played yet, this page is a spoiler — play these five first, then come back to argue with the numbers.
Day 28 ran from a SIM card (2.5 cm) to a table tennis table (2.74 m). The widest gap was round 2, SD Card against Paint Can, at 6.1×; the closest call was round 5, SIM Card against AAA Battery, only 1.8× apart — the kind of round that separates a 90 from a 60.
SPOILER · TODAY’S FIVE
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ROUND 1
Shopping Cart vs Sheet of A3 Paper (ISO 216)
Sheet of A3 Paper · reference · 42 cm Shopping Cart · true length · 1 m 2.4× longer than the sheet of A3 paper
A supermarket trolley is about 1 m long.
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ROUND 2
SD Card (full-size) vs Paint Can (1 US gallon, handle down)
Paint Can · reference · 19.43 cm SD Card · true height · 3.2 cm 6.1× shorter than the paint can
A full-size SD card is 32 mm tall; a microSD card is a different format.
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ROUND 3
Table Tennis Table (regulation) vs Frying Pan (28 cm pan, handle included)
Frying Pan · reference · 49 cm Table Tennis Table · true length · 2.74 m 5.6× longer than the frying pan
A table tennis table is 2.74 m long and 1.525 m wide, standing 76 cm off the floor.
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ROUND 4
Cricket Bat (maximum legal size) vs Wardrobe (236 cm frame)
Wardrobe · reference · 2.364 m Cricket Bat · true height · 96.5 cm 2.4× shorter than the wardrobe
The Laws cap a cricket bat at 96.5 cm long and 10.8 cm wide.
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ROUND 5
SIM Card (mini-SIM, 2FF) vs AAA Battery (including terminal button)
AAA Battery · reference · 4.45 cm SIM Card · true length · 2.5 cm 1.8× shorter than the AAA battery
The mini-SIM is 25 mm long, under a third of the 85.6 mm full-size card it was punched from.
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