Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #25 was Japanese destroyer Asashio.
Asashio was the lead ship of the ten Asashio-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the mid-1930s under the Circle Two Program.
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What the record says
Puzzle 25 ran on 3 Aug 2026 and the answer was Japanese destroyer Asashio, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - destroyer; Navy - Japan; Displacement - 1-5k; Fate - sunk. The numbers: Commissioned - 1930; Length - 111 m.
The photograph is by Shizuo Fukui, 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
- Japan
- Commissioned
- 1930
- Displacement
- 1-5k
- Fate
- sunk
- Length
- 111 m