Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #112 was Japanese cruiser Furutaka.
Furutaka was the lead ship in the two-vessel Furutaka-class of heavy cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. The ship was named after Mount Furutaka, located on Etajima, Hiroshima, immediately behind the Imperial Japanese Navy Academy. She was commissioned in 1926 and was sunk 12 October 1942 by USSÂ Salt Lake City and USS Buchanan at the Battle of Cape Esperance.
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What the record says
Puzzle 112 ran on 29 Oct 2026 and the answer was Japanese cruiser Furutaka, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - cruiser; Navy - Japan; Displacement - 5-15k. The numbers: Commissioned - 1920; Length - 185.17 m. 1 of the 6 columns is blank in the source (Fate), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by Unknown, presumed US Navy official photographer, licensed Public domain.
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
- Class
- cruiser
- Navy
- Japan
- Commissioned
- 1920
- Displacement
- 5-15k
- Fate
- Not recorded
- Length
- 185.17 m