Size It Up

Size It Up Vehicles

MACHINE AGAINST MACHINE · FIVE ROUNDS A DAY · 84 VEHICLES

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How to play Size It Up

  1. Compare. The black silhouette is the reference. It is at true scale and never changes.
  2. Resize. Slide anywhere on the board — or drag the grip, tap the ruler, pinch, or use the arrow keys — until the white silhouette looks right next to the reference. Zoom out if you need room.
  3. Lock in. The true size is drawn in red over your guess. Within 6% scores 100; twice or half the size scores 45; five times off scores 0.

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The Size It Up vehicles game, machine against machine

Size It Up Vehicles keeps every round inside the world of things that move: a bicycle against a Smart Fortwo, a Concorde against a 737, a container ship against the Titanic. The black cut-out is the reference, drawn at true scale with a ruler above it. The white one is yours — drag it, pull a corner, make it the right size beside the reference, then lock in. The true machine is drawn over your guess in red, with the real number and how far off you were.

It is the same five-round daily as the main Size It Up game, except every silhouette is a human-made machine. Each number comes from a stated model or reconstruction, with a source you can inspect. A Size It Up vehicles round measures the configuration shown: this coach is 12 m long and this 747 is 70.7 m. When you are out by a factor of three, the red outline makes the difference visible. Size It Up Vehicles is free, needs no account, and refreshes at midnight in your time zone.

Black paper cut-outs of a container ship dwarfing a Boeing 747, semi-trailer truck, city bus and tiny bicycle on a kraft table beside a red marker
The range of Size It Up vehicles: a container ship dwarfs a jumbo jet; the bicycle is a tiny mark at the right.

How to play Size It Up Vehicles

  1. Read the axis. Most Size It Up vehicles rounds measure length: nose to tail for an aircraft, bow to stern for a ship, or buffer to buffer for a locomotive. The rockets, the Apollo Lunar Module and the hot air balloon use height. Check the configuration too: a helicopter may include its rotor envelope, and a train may mean one car or the whole set.
  2. Count the reference. Ask how many of the black machine fit inside the white one. Two buses to a semi-trailer? Four family cars to a bus? Ratios are how the Size It Up vehicles game scores, and they are far easier to feel than metres.
  3. Lock in and argue. The true outline lands in red. Within 6% of the true size scores 100; twice or half the size scores 45; five times off scores nothing. Five rounds from easy to hard, 1,000 points, and the same five Size It Up vehicles for everyone that day.
A black bus beneath a 12 m ruler, with a longer cream-white semi-trailer truck guess and red resize handles in the row below
Reference in black, your guess in white — the Size It Up vehicles board before lock-in.

Why Size It Up Vehicles breaks your sense of scale

Vehicles are the category where being a passenger actively misleads you. You have stood next to a 737 at a jet bridge and seen exactly one door of it. You have watched a container ship from a headland with nothing beside it for reference. You have seen Concorde in a museum, roped off, and filed it under “small supersonic thing”, when it was longer than a 737 and only nine metres shy of a 747.

Scale on water is worse still. The Titanic was the largest moving object ever built when it launched, and a routine modern container ship is half as long again. Size It Up Vehicles is where that lands: you draw the ship you know, the red outline lands well outside it, and the reveal gives the measured length. Size It Up Vehicles links each measurement to a manufacturer, museum or reference source; historic reconstructions are identified as estimates.

Black paper models of an Antonov An-225, Boeing 747, Concorde, Boeing 737 and small Cessna 172 in five rows with noses aligned to a red guide
Air rounds are the cruellest in Size It Up Vehicles: the An-225 is 2.1 times a 737.

Size It Up Vehicles: sizes that fool almost everyone

See every day’s answers

Container Ship vs RMS Titanic

400 m · Container Ship
269 m · RMS Titanic

1.49× longer

Concorde vs Boeing 737

62 m · Concorde
40 m · Boeing 737

1.56× longer

Starship vs Saturn V

121 m · Starship
111 m · Saturn V

1.09× taller

The container ship is the round people get wrong most often in the Size It Up vehicles game: the Titanic is the ship everyone uses as their mental maximum, and a working box boat is 1.49 times its length. Concorde is the second — museum lighting makes it look like a fighter, and it is 1.56 times a 737. Starship is the newest trap: it stands 10 m taller than the Saturn V, the rocket most people still hold as the tallest thing ever launched.

A cream-white Nimitz-class aircraft carrier cut-out overlapping a shorter black Titanic cut-out on one waterline
Carrier against liner: 333 m to 269 m.

Every machine in the Size It Up vehicles library

84 Size It Up vehicles at the last build, from a skateboard (80 cm) to the Seawise Giant (458 m), largest first. Pairs in a Size It Up vehicles round are always within fifty times of each other, so a skateboard never faces a supertanker — but a skateboard against a bicycle, or a fire engine against a tram, is exactly what this mode is for. Every silhouette is either a public-domain cut-out or drawn to published dimensions in our own build scripts, and every measurement links to its source on the credits page; where a machine came in several versions — the stretched fuselage, the long-wheelbase van, the sixteen-car set — the caption names the one you are looking at in that Size It Up vehicles round.

Tips for the Size It Up vehicles daily

  • The bus is your ruler. A coach is 12 m and turns up as a Size It Up vehicles reference constantly. A semi-trailer is a bus and a third; a tram is nearly three buses; a 737 is a little over three.
  • Cars cluster. Almost every car on earth is between 4 m and 5 m long. A Smart Fortwo at 2.7 m is the outlier, not the family saloon at 4.63 m.
  • Aircraft come in three sizes. Regional jet 30 m, single-aisle 40 m, wide-body 70 m. Most Size It Up vehicles air rounds fall out of those three numbers, and the An-225 sat above all of them at 84 m.
  • Ships beat your intuition every time. The Titanic is 269 m; the carrier is 333 m; the container ship is 400 m. Whatever you were about to draw, draw it bigger.
  • Practise in Unlimited. Size It Up Vehicles Unlimited keeps drawing vehicle pairs with no daily cap. Twenty rounds there and the Size It Up vehicles daily stops feeling like a guess.
A black Saturn V reference beside a white Starship guess with the taller true Starship size drawn around it in red
The Size It Up vehicles reveal: Starship at 121 m, over a guess most people make too short.

Questions about Size It Up Vehicles

Is Size It Up Vehicles a new puzzle every day?
Yes. Size It Up Vehicles is a daily game: five vehicle pairs, the same five for everyone, new at midnight in your time zone. Your vehicles streak is separate from the main daily, from Animals and from Geography.
What is the difference between Size It Up Vehicles and the main game?
The main Size It Up daily mixes vehicles with animals, landmarks, plants, planets and everyday objects. Size It Up Vehicles draws both silhouettes in every round from the vehicle library only, so each round is machine against machine.
How many vehicles are in the Size It Up vehicles game?
84 at the moment, from a skateboard to the Seawise Giant. The library covers road vehicles, trains, boats, ships, aircraft and rockets, it grows every few weeks, and every silhouette and measurement is credited on the credits page.
Which dimension does Size It Up Vehicles compare?
Length for most entries: an aircraft from nose to tail, a ship from bow to stern, or a rail vehicle over its buffers. 10 entries use height instead: the launch rockets, the Apollo Lunar Module and the hot air balloon. Helicopter entries say when the rotor envelope is included. Every round names the measured axis.
Can I play more than five Size It Up vehicles rounds a day?
Yes. Size It Up Vehicles Unlimited draws from the complete vehicle library with no daily cap. Choose the Vehicles theme in Unlimited to keep both objects in this category. The vehicles daily itself is five rounds.
Does Size It Up Vehicles measure a whole train or one carriage?
Read the configuration beside the name. Size It Up Vehicles includes a single Shinkansen car, locomotives with their tenders, and a complete sixteen-car Eurostar e320. Their silhouettes show the same units as their measurements. A complete train looks very thin at true scale; zoom the board to inspect it without changing your guess.
How precise are historic Size It Up Vehicles measurements?
Size It Up Vehicles uses the stated model and configuration. Modern machines use published specifications; museum ships and reconstructed longships can use rounded or estimated lengths. The reveal and linked measurement source explain the scope. An excavator in its transport pose is measured differently from its maximum digging reach.

More ways to play

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The daily Size It Up game mixes vehicles with animals, landmarks, plants, planets and everyday objects. Size It Up Animals keeps every round inside the animal kingdom, Size It Up Geography does the same with countries, US states and lakes, and Size It Up Pop Culture takes on characters and starships. Unlimited has no daily cap. Finished today’s Size It Up vehicles? Every day’s vehicle answers are one click away.

Choose a categoryPLAYING DAILY
MixedAnimals, planets and everyday things. AnimalsLength, height or wingspan — every round names the axis. GeographyEast–west or north–south span, never area. Pop CultureCheck the version. Compare the measured dimension. VehiclesLength end to end, or height for the ones that stand upright. DinosaursCompare estimated body length, from snout to tail tip. SpaceCompare body diameter. Rings and orbital distances are excluded. Everyday ObjectsLength, height or width — every round names the axis. InsectsBody length or wingspan — read the named measurement. LandmarksRead the named height, length or main span — including its endpoints. Food & DrinkRead the selected size and axis — length, diameter or container height.
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