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Puzzle #38 was Bodie Island Light.
The current Bodie Island Lighthouse is the third that has stood in this vicinity of Bodie Island on the Outer Banks in North Carolina and was built in 1872. It stands 156 feet (48Â m) tall and is located on the Roanoke Sound side of a portion of a peninsula that is the first part of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The lighthouse is just south of Nags Head, a few miles before Oregon Inlet.
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What the record says
Puzzle 38 ran on 16 Aug 2026 and the answer was Bodie Island Light, played with 6 guesses against 8 columns. On the record: Country - United States; Continent - North America; Height - 40-60m; Heritage - listed. The numbers: Built - 1870; Focal height - 50 m; Range - 18 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
- 1870
- Height
- 40-60m
- Material
- Not recorded
- Heritage
- listed
- Focal height
- 50 m
- Range
- 18 nmi