Liberty is not the statue alone
The Statue of Liberty on this board is ground to torch, pedestal included, about 93 metres. The figure alone is much shorter. Players who remember a photograph of the robes, cropped above the stone, lock in low and then feel cheated. The fact line warned them. The red outline is the pedestal they left out, drawn as height. That is a version error, and it is the most common one on this shelf.
The Eiffel Tower is taken to the tip of the antennas, about 330 metres. Not the top deck you can visit. The antennas are part of the figure we publish. Three hundred and thirty divided by 93 is about 3.55. The tower is roughly three and a half Liberties-with-pedestal. Players who call them rivals are answering fame. Fame is not a scale. A ratio of two, which feels like a serious disagreement, still leaves you far short of 3.55 and scores in the band around 45 only if you were near double. A 'they're about the same' guess is several times off and can hit 0.
The bell is not the tower
Big Ben on this board is Elizabeth Tower. The nickname belongs to the bell, not the height. The tower is about 96 metres, close to Liberty-with-pedestal and nowhere near the Eiffel Tower. Players who bundle 'London and Paris monuments' into one height will miss by the Paris factor, not by a London quibble. Read the name. Then read the fact. The fact is short because the mistake is famous.
Two towers near 95 metres can share a round and look almost like a tie. Within 6 percent scores 100. That is a tight band: 96 against 93 is only about 3 percent, inside the 100. If you blow them apart because one is more famous, you manufactured a miss the measurements do not support. The shelf is teaching you to separate fame from metres. A near-tie is allowed to look like a near-tie.
Postcards and the crop
Postcards fill the frame with the subject. The Eiffel Tower fills a card. Liberty fills a card. Nothing on the card is a bus or a tree you could use as a unit. When both cards are the same size in your memory, both buildings become the same size. The compare page can put the two truths side by side with no score, so you can install 3.55 as a picture before you spend a weighted round. Do that. Then come back and lock in without opening today's answers.
Other landmarks on the shelf follow the same rule. The fact says which part is included. A spire, a base, a hill: if it is in the number, the sentence says so. If you lock in from a postcard that cropped the base off, you will be short, and the red shape will show the base you deleted. That is the lesson, not a trick.
A unit you can keep
Keep Liberty-with-pedestal as about 93 metres, and the Eiffel antennas as about 330. You do not need a third famous tower to start. A building you actually know, if it appears, becomes a multiple of 93. 'A bit over one Liberty' is a sentence the score understands. 'Iconic' is not. Rounds four and five count triple. Do not spend them on a vibe you could have replaced with 3.55.
Unlimited landmarks are for the postcard habit. Say the multiple. Look at the red edge. If you were short, you probably cropped a base. If you were long, you probably gave the famous one a bonus. Write that down once. The answers list will show the same pattern across days if you let it. One sentence is enough: fame added height, or the crop removed a pedestal.
What this shelf refuses
It refuses to treat a bell as a building. It refuses to drop the pedestal quietly. It refuses a leaderboard. It will not pair a tower with a country area. Height is height. If the heading says tall, do not answer with the width of the base you saw in a plan. The drawing is the height we named.
A perfect landmarks five is 1,000 under the usual weights. It means the versions and the multiples lined up. It does not mean you have been to Paris. Players who have been to Paris miss the antennas too. Presence is not a tape. The fact line is the tape's caption. Read it. If you only keep one check before locking a tower, keep this: which part of the building is in the number, and how many of your unit that part is. A pedestal left out is not a small mood. On Liberty it is the difference between the figure people photograph and the 93 metres the board actually grades.