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.
The power station turbine one is particularly asinine because the size range is huge.
So they give you the name of the exact turbine, but like... how is that helpful. I don't know random german nuclear turbines by name, and looking it up just... tells me the size and makes the game pointless.
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.
samrus | 21 hours ago
slowcache | 21 hours ago
theowaway213456 | 21 hours ago
xivzgrev | 21 hours ago
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.
gverrilla | 21 hours ago
lopis | 21 hours ago
horsawlarway | 21 hours ago
So they give you the name of the exact turbine, but like... how is that helpful. I don't know random german nuclear turbines by name, and looking it up just... tells me the size and makes the game pointless.
marcduck | 20 hours ago
muzani | 4 hours ago
JeppyG | 21 hours ago
garbagepatch | 18 hours ago
missingrib | 17 hours ago
skzo | 20 hours ago
ediamondscience | 20 hours ago
pearcoder | 18 hours ago
r0m4n0 | 17 hours ago
SamBam | 16 hours ago
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.
pugworthy | 20 hours ago
gadtfly | 19 hours ago
https://magnitudle.com/archive/weekly-1k/2026-10-26
rrr_oh_man | 19 hours ago
IshKebab | 18 hours ago
Also the control could just be a slider. Much easier and simpler on all platforms.
Nice idea though.
augment_me | 17 hours ago
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.
SamBam | 16 hours ago
It's more fun when you think you're skillful!
docsaintly | 15 hours ago
simpaticoder | 15 hours ago
dofm | 13 hours ago
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.
lincon127 | 13 hours ago