this is interesting but not so accessible - I have no conception of how big or small a power station turbine rotor is. I've only seen the pictures of statue of liberty and big ben with no banana for scale. so it's pure guessing, which is less fun.
why not more accessible things - a basketball hoop vs a delivery truck, a chicken egg vs a toilet, etc. things you don't ordinarily see side by side but you know roughly the size of each so you can compare.
It gave me Golden Gate Bridge vs Tennis net. I have a decent idea of the size of these, but they don't even fit in the screen together. It might as well be Moon vs wombat.
I mean I knew that people could walk up and stand in the little nooks on her crown area so that gave me sort of a size comparison and I knew the book must be massive, way bigger than Big Ben's clock. It's a very big statue.
What makes you say that? I'm in the USA and I don't think I've ever seen a meerkat, wombat, or a newborn panda cub in person. I think that was partially the point of the game though, wasn't it?
Some of the other games on this site use the metric system and I struggled so you could be off the mark on USA. I'd guess Australian centric based upon the animals and metric system
There's the Statue of Liberty, and I guess a basketball hoop..?
Meanwhile there's a meerkat, egg, power plant turbine, Big Ben, wombat, panda, Chichen Itza and the Pyramid of the Sun, none of which are remotely USA centric.
This is great but the interface/UI needs some work.
I tried to max out the power turbine, and the grid did not follow and I assumed it hit the max size. I guess the action would be to zoom out and then further drag, but this is a bit annoying, same for zooming in past some scale.
I think the benefit of the game is lost when it's comparing two obscure objects to each other - many people won't know both, so it becomes more of a guessing game than accurate estimation.
I like it! But you should do biochemistry - atoms, acids, proteins, organelles, cells. I think people's intuition is WAY off and this game could help. In fact I one-shotted this: https://sites.google.com/view/scalecraft/full-page-embed (with argon)
One thing that really really annoys me about LLM-generated websites is that they have entrenched, without good reason, --webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased.
Also Claude, having evidently been tested by people exclusively under the age of 25, routinely chooses smaller font sizes and lower text contrast than makes any kind of sense.
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[ 0.20 ms ] story [ 14.5 ms ] threadwhy not more accessible things - a basketball hoop vs a delivery truck, a chicken egg vs a toilet, etc. things you don't ordinarily see side by side but you know roughly the size of each so you can compare.
There's the Statue of Liberty, and I guess a basketball hoop..?
Meanwhile there's a meerkat, egg, power plant turbine, Big Ben, wombat, panda, Chichen Itza and the Pyramid of the Sun, none of which are remotely USA centric.
https://magnitudle.com/archive/weekly-1k/2026-10-26
Also the control could just be a slider. Much easier and simpler on all platforms.
Nice idea though.
I tried to max out the power turbine, and the grid did not follow and I assumed it hit the max size. I guess the action would be to zoom out and then further drag, but this is a bit annoying, same for zooming in past some scale.
It's more fun when you think you're skillful!
Coincidentally, so is good web design.
One thing that really really annoys me about LLM-generated websites is that they have entrenched, without good reason, --webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased.
Also Claude, having evidently been tested by people exclusively under the age of 25, routinely chooses smaller font sizes and lower text contrast than makes any kind of sense.