Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #84 was Japanese cruiser Mikuma.
Mikuma was a heavy cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The second vessel in the four-ship Mogami class, she was laid down in 1931 and commissioned in 1935. During World War II she participated in the Battle of Sunda Strait in February 1942 and the Battle of Midway in June 1942, and was sunk the last day of the latter engagement, on 6 June.
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What the record says
Puzzle 84 ran on 1 Oct 2026 and the answer was Japanese cruiser Mikuma, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - cruiser; Navy - Japan; Fate - sunk. The numbers: Commissioned - 1930; Length - 201.6 m. 1 of the 6 columns is blank in the source (Displacement), so nobody could score it either way.
The photograph is by A.D. Brick or CP(PA) J.S. Mihalovitch, USN, 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
- Japan
- Commissioned
- 1930
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- sunk
- Length
- 201.6 m