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Puzzle #1 was Matobo National Park.
The Matobo National Park forms the core of the Matobo or Matopos Hills, an area of granite kopjes and wooded valleys commencing some 35 kilometres (22Â mi) south of Bulawayo, southern Zimbabwe. The hills were formed over 2 billion years ago with granite being forced to the surface; it has eroded to produce smooth "whaleback dwalas" and broken kopjes, strewn with boulders and interspersed with thickets of vegetation. Matopo/Matob was named by the Lozwi.
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What the record says
Puzzle 1 ran on 16 Jul 2026 and the answer was Matobo National Park, played with 6 guesses against 4 columns. On the record: Country - Zimbabwe; IUCN category - II. The numbers: Established - 1920s. 1 of the 4 columns is blank in the source (Area band), so nobody could score it either way.
Beyond the grid the record adds Established - 1926; Terrain / setting - Matabeleland.
Parkdle builds its record from Wikidata - CC0 1.0 and IUCN protected-area management category guidelines. 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
- Zimbabwe
- IUCN category
- II
- Established
- 1920s
- Area band
- Not recorded
Also on the record
- Established
- 1926
- Terrain / setting
- Matabeleland