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Puzzle #48 was Cape Lookout Lighthouse.
The Cape Lookout Lighthouse is a 163-foot-high lighthouse located on the southern Outer Banks of North Carolina. It flashes every 15 seconds and is visible at least 12 miles out to sea and up to 19 miles. It is one of the very few lighthouses that operate during the day.
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What the record says
Puzzle 48 ran on 26 Aug 2026 and the answer was Cape Lookout Lighthouse, played with 6 guesses against 8 columns. On the record: Country - United States; Continent - North America; Height - 40-60m; Heritage - listed. The numbers: Built - 1850; Focal height - 52 m; Range - 25 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
- 1850
- Height
- 40-60m
- Material
- Not recorded
- Heritage
- listed
- Focal height
- 52 m
- Range
- 25 nmi