Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #52 was Admiral Scheer.
Admiral Scheer was a Deutschland-class heavy cruiser which served with the Kriegsmarine (Navy) of Nazi Germany during World War II. The vessel was named after Admiral Reinhard Scheer, German commander in the Battle of Jutland. She was laid down at the Reichsmarinewerft shipyard in Wilhelmshaven in June 1931 and completed by November 1934.
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What the record says
Puzzle 52 ran on 30 Aug 2026 and the answer was Admiral Scheer, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - cruiser; Navy - Germany. The numbers: Commissioned - 1930; Length - 186 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 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
- cruiser
- Navy
- Germany
- Commissioned
- 1930
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- Not recorded
- Length
- 186 m