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Puzzle #27 was Canton Tower.
The Canton Tower, formally Guangzhou TV Astronomical and Sightseeing Tower, is a 600-metre-tall (2,000Â ft) multipurpose observation tower in the Haizhu District of Guangzhou, China. The tower was topped out in 2009 and it became operational on 29 September 2010 in time for the 2010 Asian Games. The tower briefly held the title of tallest tower in the world, replacing Toronto's CN Tower, before being surpassed by the Tokyo Skytree.
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What the record says
Puzzle 27 ran on 11 Aug 2026 and the answer was Canton Tower, played with 6 guesses against 4 columns. On the record: Country - People's Republic of China. The numbers: Height - 600 m; Floors - 37; Completed - 2010.
Beyond the grid the record adds Architect - Information Based Architecture; Records history - The tower briefly held the title of tallest tower in the world, replacing Toronto's CN Tower, before being surpassed by the Tokyo Skytree..
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
- People's Republic of China
- Height
- 600 m
- Floors
- 37
- Completed
- 2010
Also on the record
- Architect
- Information Based Architecture
- Records history
- The tower briefly held the title of tallest tower in the world, replacing Toronto's CN Tower, before being surpassed by the Tokyo Skytree.