Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #17 was USS Zumwalt.
USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) is a guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy. She is the lead ship of the Zumwalt class and the first ship to be named after Admiral Elmo Zumwalt. Zumwalt has stealth capabilities, having a radar cross-section similar to a fishing boat despite her large size.
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What the record says
Puzzle 17 ran on 26 Jul 2026 and the answer was USS Zumwalt, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - destroyer; Navy - United States. The numbers: Commissioned - 2010; Length - 182.9 m. 2 of the 6 columns are blank in the source (Displacement and Fate), so nobody could score them either way.
The photograph is by National Museum of the U.S. Navy, 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
- destroyer
- Navy
- United States
- Commissioned
- 2010
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- Not recorded
- Length
- 182.9 m