Shipdle Warships
Puzzle #98 was USS West Virginia.
USS West Virginia was the fourth dreadnought battleship of the Colorado class, though because Washington was cancelled, she was the third and final member of the class to be completed. The Colorado class proved to be the culmination of the standard-type battleship series built for the United States Navy in the 1910s and 1920s; the ships were essentially repeats of the earlier Tennessee design, but with a significantly more powerful main battery of eight 16-inch (406Â mm) guns in twin-gun turrets.
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What the record says
Puzzle 98 ran on 15 Oct 2026 and the answer was USS West Virginia, played with 6 guesses against 6 columns. On the record: Class - battleship; Navy - United States. The numbers: Commissioned - 1920; Length - 190.2 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 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
- battleship
- Navy
- United States
- Commissioned
- 1920
- Displacement
- Not recorded
- Fate
- Not recorded
- Length
- 190.2 m