Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #79 was Mikasa.
Mikasa (三笠) is a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1890s, and is the only ship of her class. Named after Mount Mikasa in Nara, Japan, the ship served as the flagship of Vice Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō throughout the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, including the Battle of Port Arthur on the second day of the war and the Battles of the Yellow Sea and Tsushima. Days after the end of the war, Mikasa's magazine accidentally exploded and sank the ship.
What the record says
Puzzle 79 ran on 26 Sep 2026 and the answer was Mikasa, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - battleship; Navy - Japan; Fate - museum. The numbers: Commissioned - 1900; Length - 131.7 m. 1 of the 6 columns is blank in the source (Displacement), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by William Frederick Mitchell, 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
- battleship
- Navy
- Japan
- Commissioned
- 1900
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- museum
- Length
- 131.7 m