Towerdle
Puzzle #23 was The Shard.
The Shard, also referred to as the Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower, is a 95-storey mixed-use development supertall pyramid-shaped skyscraper, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, in Southwark, London, that forms part of The Shard Quarter development. Standing 309.6 metres high, The Shard is the tallest building in the United Kingdom and Western Europe; and the seventh-tallest building in Europe.
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What the record says
Puzzle 23 ran on 7 Aug 2026 and the answer was The Shard, played with 6 guesses against 4 columns. On the record: Country - United Kingdom. The numbers: Height - 306 m; Completed - 2010. 1 of the 4 columns is blank in the source (Floors), so nobody could score it either way.
Beyond the grid the record adds Architect - Renzo Piano; Records history - Standing 309.6 metres high, The Shard is the tallest building in the United Kingdom and Western Europe; and the seventh-tallest building in Europe..
Towerdle builds its record from Wikidata - CC0 1.0. The description above comes from the same place the game credits on every reveal: English Wikipedia verbatim extract, 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 Kingdom
- Height
- 306 m
- Floors
- Not recorded
- Completed
- 2010
Also on the record
- Architect
- Renzo Piano
- Records history
- Standing 309.6 metres high, The Shard is the tallest building in the United Kingdom and Western Europe; and the seventh-tallest building in Europe.