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Puzzle #12 was Sandy Hook Light.
The Sandy Hook Lighthouse, located about one and a half statute miles (2.4Â km) inland from the tip of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, is the oldest working lighthouse in the United States. It was designed and built on June 11, 1764 by Isaac Conro. At that time, it stood only 500 feet from the tip of Sandy Hook; however, today, due to growth caused by littoral drift, it is almost one and a half miles (2.4Â km) inland from the tip.
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What the record says
Puzzle 12 ran on 21 Jul 2026 and the answer was Sandy Hook Light, played with 6 guesses against 8 columns. On the record: Country - United States; Continent - North America; Height - 20-40m; Heritage - listed. The numbers: Built - 1760; Focal height - 27 m; Range - 19 nmi. 1 of the 8 columns is blank in the source (Material), so nobody could score it either way.
Lighthousedle builds its record from Wikidata - CC0 1.0. 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
- Country
- United States
- Continent
- North America
- Built
- 1760
- Height
- 20-40m
- Material
- Not recorded
- Heritage
- listed
- Focal height
- 27 m
- Range
- 19 nmi