Lighthousedle
Puzzle #20 was Portland Head Light.
Portland Head Light is a historic lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The light station sits on a headland at the entrance of the primary shipping channel into Portland Harbor, which is within Casco Bay in the Gulf of Maine. Completed in 1791, it was the first lighthouse built by the U.S. government and is the oldest lighthouse in Maine.
Read about it on Wikipedia →
What the record says
Puzzle 20 ran on 29 Jul 2026 and the answer was Portland Head Light, played with 6 guesses against 8 columns. On the record: Country - United States; Continent - North America; Height - 20-40m; Material - stone; Heritage - listed. The numbers: Built - 1790; Focal height - 31 m; Range - 24 nmi.
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
- 1790
- Height
- 20-40m
- Material
- stone
- Heritage
- listed
- Focal height
- 31 m
- Range
- 24 nmi