Volcanodle
Puzzle #32 was Medicine Lake.
Medicine Lake is a large Pleistocene-to-Holocene, basaltic-to-rhyolitic shield volcano east of the main axis of the Cascade Range. Volcanism, similar in style to that of Newberry volcano in Oregon, began less than one million years ago. A roughly 7 x 12 km caldera truncating the summit contains a lake that gives the volcano its name.
Read about it at the Global Volcanism Program →
Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution
What the record says
Puzzle 32 ran on 10 Aug 2026 and the answer was Medicine Lake, played with 6 guesses against 8 columns. On the record: Country - United States; Region - North America Volcanic Regions; Type - shield; Tectonic setting - subduction; Elevation - 1500-3000; Last eruption - older-Holocene; Rock type - basalt; Historically observed - observed.
Beyond the grid the record adds Largest recorded eruption - VEI 3; Holocene eruptions recorded - 10 eruptions.
Volcanodle builds its record from Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution (Venzke, E. (ed.), Volcanoes of the World, volcano.si.edu). The description above comes from the same place the game credits on every reveal: A verbatim excerpt of the volcano's GVP Geological Summary. 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
- Region
- North America Volcanic Regions
- Type
- shield
- Tectonic setting
- subduction
- Elevation
- 1500-3000
- Last eruption
- older-Holocene
- Rock type
- basalt
- Historically observed
- observed
Also on the record
- Largest recorded eruption
- VEI 3
- Holocene eruptions recorded
- 10 eruptions