Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #31 was Japanese destroyer Tanikaze.
Tanikaze (谷風; Valley Wind) was one of 19 Kagerō-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during the 1930s, which saw extensive action throughout World War II, spending her early war career operating alongside Japanese aircraft carriers. Tanikaze was damaged by American dive bomber aircraft during the Battle of Midway, 6 June 1942, and helped to sink the light cruiser USS Helena at the battle of Kula Gulf on 6 July 1943.
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What the record says
Puzzle 31 ran on 9 Aug 2026 and the answer was Japanese destroyer Tanikaze, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - destroyer; Navy - Japan; Fate - sunk. The numbers: Commissioned - 1940. 2 of the 6 columns are blank in the source (Displacement and Length), so nobody could score them either way.
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
- 1940
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- sunk
- Length
- Not recorded