Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #35 was Japanese destroyer Akizuki.
Akizuki was the lead ship of her class of destroyer in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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What the record says
Puzzle 35 ran on 13 Aug 2026 and the answer was Japanese destroyer Akizuki, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - destroyer; Navy - Japan. The numbers: Commissioned - 1940; Length - 134.2 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 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
- Not recorded
- Length
- 134.2 m