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Puzzle #27 was Explorer of the Seas.
Explorer of the Seas is a Voyager-class cruise ship owned and operated by Royal Caribbean International, completed in 2000. She can accommodate over 3,000 guests, including scientists making use of a built-in atmospheric and oceanographic laboratory operated by the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science. The lab, with its attendant educational and outreach programs for passengers, was discontinued in 2007.
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What the record says
Puzzle 27 ran on 5 Aug 2026 and the answer was Explorer of the Seas, played with 6 guesses against 7 columns. On the record: Type - cruise; Flag - The Bahamas; Tonnage - >100k; Builder - Kvaerner Masa-Yards. The numbers: Launched - 2000; Length - 311 m. 1 of the 7 columns is blank in the source (Status), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by Jack Adamenko, licensed CC0.
Shipdle builds its record from Wikidata - CC0 1.0 and Wikimedia Commons photographs - licence verified per photo (US government public domain, PD-old, CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA; never NC or ND). The description above comes from the same place the game credits on every reveal: English Wikipedia summary excerpt, CC BY-SA 4.0. The puzzle itself is still playable in the archive, and every answer that has been and gone is listed on the past-answers page.
How it scored
- Type
- cruise
- Flag
- The Bahamas
- Launched
- 2000
- Tonnage
- >100k
- Length
- 311 m
- Status
- Not recorded
- Builder
- Kvaerner Masa-Yards