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Puzzle #5 was Three Gorges Dam.
The Three Gorges Dam, officially known as Yangtze River Three Gorges Water Conservancy Project is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River near Sandouping in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges. It is also the world's largest power station by installed capacity (22,500 MW); it generates 95±20 TWh of electricity per year on average, depending on the amount of precipitation in the river basin.
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What the record says
Puzzle 5 ran on 20 Jul 2026 and the answer was Three Gorges Dam, played with 6 guesses against 4 columns. On the record: Country - People's Republic of China. The numbers: Height - 181 m; Completed - 2000. 1 of the 4 columns is blank in the source (Floors), so nobody could score it either way.
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
- 181 m
- Floors
- Not recorded
- Completed
- 2000