Towerdle
Puzzle #3 was Empire State Building.
The Empire State Building is a 102-story, supertall skyscraper in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. The building was designed in the Art Deco style by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and constructed between 1930 and 1931. Its name is derived from "Empire State", the nickname of New York state.
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What the record says
Puzzle 3 ran on 18 Jul 2026 and the answer was Empire State Building, played with 6 guesses against 4 columns. On the record: Country - United States. The numbers: Height - 457.2 m; Completed - 1930. 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 - Shreve, Lamb & Harmon.
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 States
- Height
- 457.2 m
- Floors
- Not recorded
- Completed
- 1930
Also on the record
- Architect
- Shreve, Lamb & Harmon