______ the ____________: Redactle

New thread for Redactle so that Wordle lovers can go about their day without facing a wall of [show hidden text].

I won't paste in discussion from the Wordle thread. It's just people being furious at themselves behind spoiler tags.

260 guesses!

108 first time. Not sure this will replace Semantle for me.

(removes bookmark from wordle thread...)

I kinda like this, I'm no good at Semantle but I give up quickly, this feels like I'm seeing at least some progress in my guesses.

Yeah it I think it might be my favourite of all the time wastles, feels like more of a comprehensive brain workout than semantle. Or maybe it just hasn't lost its novelty value yet.

yeah, I think either the novelty will fade or I'll build up enough anxiety about getting it quickly that it will become painfully tense and I will quit. But for now it's a really entertaining challenge every day.

33 ?????? 83 57.83%

um...

really not sure why you get global stats some times and not others.

#33 in 46 @ 58.70% insect by 26, but wasn't really properly on it till I added the plural at 35. Annoying run of cricket/grasshopper/locust at 41-3 (after seeing title "The x and the ant"), where my brain should have been trying to get the thing like that with 6 letters… but they aren't very present in my UK English taxonomy of the world. Also, I think I head for myth/legend/folklore too early & get a bit lost there.

I think it can just take ages for stats to load? I didn't have them and just looked again and there they are.

I kinda like this, I'm no good at Semantle but I give up quickly, this feels like I'm seeing at least some progress in my guesses.

Same.

@koogs I think it might be because you solved it too quickly? The global averages change over the day, and you can keep refreshing the page to see them change (usually up).

Anyway, #33 90 / 49%.

117 in and I don't know any other kinds of insects :(

31 despite forgetting my usual guess of species. Guessing year and life gave me '__- year life _____' - obviously 'cycle', thx old bbc nature documentaries.

> they aren't very present in my UK English taxonomy of the world. i felt this as well. and i think i threw away the same three things you did, and a bunch of others, because of it

163, 80% accuracy - knew it was an insect early on but a side bit of fun is seeing how many words I can fill in rather than just going for low score.

A gruelling 375, but Kevin gave me the final guess. It’s one of his strongest fields of knowledge. Also learned how a certain long standing ILXor got their name.

#33 in 167 with 56% accuracy, what a slog. Was thrown off by the cultural sections and didn't get it was something in nature till I got species at 116

37 guesses / 56.76% weirdly figured this out after trying "ant" and finding "the ______ and the ant" in the text, which I know by it's French title. Then took me a minute to remember what "Cigale" is in English

121 not much to say really

I'm well into 200 guesses and have obviously stumbled into what type of thing this is, but I really don't think i'm going to get the actual word. I have no idea at all.

I started playing this yesterday, and didn't understand the rules entirely -- I thought you had to fill in all the blanks in order to win -- so I was surprised when I guessed one word and the game was over.

yes pretty much how my first play was too

re yesterdays puzzle, just seen the answer, nope would not have got that ever

Congratulations, you solved Redactle #34!
You solved it in 50 guesses
Your accuracy was 66.00%
Globally, 313 players have solved today's Redactle so far

I solved today's Redactle (#34) in 72 guesses with an accuracy of 51.39%.

had "species" and "origin", which uncovered a mention of "Origin of the Species" somewhere near the bottom, which led me to the answer

#34 434 / 48%

silverfish, I had that too but I didn't think laterally enough to make the connection, and my first 200 guesses were in the realms of medicine and technology -- my guess of television at 65 was a total red herring.

69 today, 127 yesterday - got totally thrown by all the stuff about songs

140 today, a right shambles.

33 today, species lead to Darwin lead to Beagle in quick succession once I got species

This has become part of my post-work routine now, when really I should be out getting some exercise or something.

I started with #13 (prophesy vs prophecy argh), so I've solved 22 now, with an average of 41.3 guesses. Never better than Meryl, never worse than College of Cardinals.

50 today - also taken down the wrong path. I forget that dogs can be popular too.

it's always annoying when Redactle accepts a misspelled word, not that that accounted for more than one of my 176 tries today :(

#34 in 56, pretty happy with that.

#34 in 73, not entirely happy. I mean I remember the moment early on when I looked at my dog sitting beside me and thought 'I will type dog' then thought 'no, don't do that, wasted blind guess, just try animals instead'. Thought I was looking for something geographical/territorial till then and only really locked on when I properly noticed what looked like 'origin of the species' down in the popcult list. That still just made me think about dogs and not the name of the ship…

I solved today's Redactle (#34) in 216 guesses with an accuracy of 56.48%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

My first Redactle, darn close to my average Semantle ugh. Fun though.

#35 in 2.

wtf

Got it in 28, with only three zero guesses.

#35
You solved it in 76 guesses
Your accuracy was 81.58%
Globally, 1732 players have solved today's Redactle so far

i think Cicadas was a bit too american-leaning also

Finished punching the air, jumping on tables, spraying room with tesco prosecco

Basically saw ****-***** in the first sentence and thought it looked a lot like it could be 'city-state'. Confirmed with 'state', then it was just figuring out a 9-letter city state that would get a really, really, really long article.

xp
I dunno - I think it's just UK/Ireland that has no truck with cicadas - they are, as I learned from the article, just about everywhere fucking else.

(Apologies to the New Forest Cicada, our one native species, again, as I learned from the article)

I solved today's Redactle (#35) in 36 guesses with an accuracy of 83.33%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

I solved today's Redactle (#35) in 17 guesses with an accuracy of 76.47%. No triple digits for me today!

#35
You solved it in 51 guesses
Your accuracy was 84.31%

-- I am better at this than Semantle

Amazing woof! I saw city-state but only after guesting world, countries, asia, country, and crucially island. In total 11 guesses, 100% accuracy.

Good work, woof! I got there in 5.

crap, sorry for spoilers in my post. don't scroll up if you haven't got it yet!

10 here. My kind of Redactle.

happy with 8, knew someone here would beat it

I don't do the letter-counting thing but I'm not sure why I wasted a guess on Luxembourg which isn't even a city-state

I thought it was city-state but didn't guess that right away because I've been burned every single time that's what I thought it was. Played myself.

looks quite intimidating does this, will have to give it a try.

you only have to get the title. but that can still take you 100s of guesses

https://www.reddit.com/r/Redactle/comments/ukobfu/a_very_hacky_method_to_play_past_random_and/

so googling chains of revealed words to find the source isn't cheating - it doesn't seem so bad now!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Redactle/comments/unfexf/a_still_hacky_way_to_play_custom_redactles/

wow, got this one in 6. did a random guess for “city” at 4 and after “city-state” announced itself hit the jackpot right away.

blimey i'm shit at this, into 100+ guesses and no idea still

got it in 172

A question to the letter counters: do you see the individual boxes, or do you highlight them one at a time and count them that way? If the former, what browser do you use?

lol, got it in 141 after going so many wrong ways.

re counting i only do it rarely but for the most part it's by eye (since it's all in a monospace font. i usually don't count if it's over 5 or so)

anyway today: i got stuck early with a few hits on "sound" which is not helpful!! but eventually worked my way to gas and liquid and solid... seemed like one in the other... struggled a little longer, got one hit for beer near the beginning, and the next one was the answer

im gonna spoiler tag this too just in case but possible bug i found? (if you're still trying to do today's, it shouldn't affect you)
i got zero hits for hz, even though there is a Hz in there? huh?

You solved it in 18 guesses
Your accuracy was 66.67%
Globally, 910 players have solved today's Redactle so far

was determined to get it under 20 even if it meant going away and thinking about it.

i have to drag mouse to count letters on the mac. and, yeah, generally you can just eyeball it if it's 6 or under.

#36 in 7. Happy… but I could have shaved a couple.

I drag across and count on mac chrome, or copy and paste then delete each letter-blank counting "one, two, three, four" as I go if I want to be certain. I only do it for title and key words that I've got a hypothesis for.

#36 600 (sic) / 41%

Oof! Got sponge at 211 but didn't think to try bath until 596, which led me to soap, which got me close to the final answer.

161 guesses / 37.27%

Went in all kinds of completely wrong directions on this one

7! How? 89 for me, stuck too long on the science section, especially when x-rays showed up.

7 was pretty lucky tbh subscripts made me try a few chemistry words, but 'atomic' and 'chemical' and a couple of others were a bit blank - states seemed a good direction, and picked gas first. You can see liquid and solid in the first sentence if you've got that & then I just made myself stop guessing and think.

#36 in 40. Not bad - was slightly thrown by what looked like a a section heading consisting of a single character, which turned out to be a comma and not a hearing at all

275, 36%

Handed my iPad over to Kevin after 59, and he got it in just two more. That’s my boy.

23 today, vague sciencey words until I hit a run of liquid->gas->bubble->foam

i had gas very early but then went down a pressure / density cul de sac

Koogs, I'd be especially impressed if you filled in a few of the forumulae by typing lower-case rho ;) I wasted a few attempts there because I assumed they were H2, O2, etc.

I got stuck with pressure too, and fill in those subscripts was a stupid idea which led me into x-rays and particle physics

I made the same assumption, Michael - and looking again, glad I didn't try to check it.

will attempt this one at lunch, you guys are putting pressure on me to try harder and looking forward to the day i get a <100 guess win

100 guesses in and not one word found that's over 10 hits

maybe this afternoon

250 but i end up cheating and looked at all your hidden text haha

#36 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foam

gah. fifth guess is a typo.

I solved today's Redactle (#37) in 156 guesses with an accuracy of 51.28%.

will attempt this one at lunch, you guys are putting pressure on me to try harder and looking forward to the day i get a <100 guess win

I don't really try to do this, as I don't think I'd have as much fun playing it that way. I'm perfectly content to post triple-digit guess counts!

I solved today's Redactle (#37) in 160 guesses with an accuracy of 47.50%.

I cheated on this one once I knew what kind of thing I was looking for, I tried basically all the categories of things I could think of, but I never would have got it.

another good (ish) start but ground to a halt. will sleep on it.

(unfortunately current attempt is on the work laptop which won't be on tomorrow, so that'll bugger the stats)

25 today, also cheated because i knew exactly what i was looking for but just didn't know the word - got eukaryote/invertebrate/animal/plant/fungus early and i was like "well i don't remember the name of the other one so i either cheat or don't finish")

After 13 guesses I have, I'm pretty sure, the whole first sentence, though I haven't actually guessed all the words. I still can't think of what the answer is.

by 'guessed' I mean entered in.

yeah, 6 guesses and I feel like I should be able to get it but I can't quite grab the thing itself

i'm the same after a dozen guesses. i have basically the entire meaning of the thing but no idea what to call it.

yup, cheated after 22 guesses, vague possibility i once heard this word in 10th grade biology but i certainly didn't keep it around

20 guesses + cheated here, too. definitely don't think i've heard this word before, or if i did, i'd forgotten it. protozoan was my closest guess but that one got 0 hits

re: ✖'s last post
i am almost 100% confident i never heard this in school -- and looking at the kingdoms now i can maybe see why? circa 1998 here is what i remember: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_(biology)#Summary

I am at 292 guesses and the word is just escaping me ... I keep hoping that word association will trigger that memory of 10th grade biology class but so far I have remembered plasmodium, slime molds, and have gotten nowhere

> After 13 guesses I have, I'm pretty sure, the whole first sentence, though I haven't actually guessed all the words. I still can't think of what the answer is.

isn't the first word usually a repeat of the title?

Foam is...
Meryl Streep is...

yes, but I couldn't be bothered to type out 'the first sentence apart from the first word which is the same as the title' on my phone.

cheated after 13, never heard of it. thought of protozoan but that was too long, overnight the best my brain could come up with was microbe.

A similar story to the previous day; this time, I struggled to 174 and Kevin added just nine more on top.

Farewell my 2 day hot streak - gave up after reading the nopes in this thread. Right to stop - quickly got the gist as above - kingdom that isn't animal, plant, fungus - and just burned through a dozen or so words that might get me somewhere. Like ledge, microbe was my best shot. And, like ledge, I just do not know this word.

don't think I'm going to get this one

Gave up. Didn’t know word.

fail also

got animal very early and then immediately spotted the not. tried the obvious not animals and they were also nots, which didn't leave much.

dug up some words that i figured were vaguely connected amoeba, protozoa, mycology (0), cytoplasm, phylogeny. woke up this morning sure the answer was microbe...

Didn't know the word, finally cheated by looking up a list of kingdoms, finding protista, and guessing that protist was a word.

#37 was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protist which i don't think anybody got

I got 37, mostly without cheating (I googled something, entered biological even though I'd already figured out the not animal, plant, fungus angle).

I solved today's Redactle (#38) in 98 guesses with an accuracy of 62.24%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

finally one to brag about

Redactle (#38) in 8 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%

struggling. lack of domain knowledge again

58, 62%
was aiming more for real world religious figures/history rather than foundational

8 for me too

I kind of like it better when it drags on for a bit, staring at the blobs to discern sentence structure feels meditative, except when it's a word I've never heard of obv

just typing random biblical names and words in the vain hope of getting somewhere.

omg I'm so dense. I had abrahamic by about guess 10. somehow took me another 138 to get it. I shouldn't try to play before the kids are in bed.

Redactle #38 in 1 🏅

y'all are amazing. I was gonna brag about getting #38 in 19 guesses ... the fact my name is Sarah was a factor in my success tbh; I didn't actually guess my name

#38
You solved it in 113 guesses
Your accuracy was 63.72%
Globally, 4462 players have solved today's Redactle so far

lots of Bible in that article

Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaims, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.

#38 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham

#39 i am surprised that Wet Leg have a wikipedia entry...

153, 66% - I knew blood sucking insect pretty quickly but I didn't think of using bug... also didn't know that bed bugs were blood suckers.

#39 in 7. Inevitable comedown after yesterday's 1. Annoying, I actually guessed it after 3, but stupidly got excited and typed the whole things as one, which then registered as bedbug, then before I clocked what was happening I typed bed bugs plural which became bedbugs, so two turns wasted through carelessness

Not going to look at this thread again before playing though - I think koogs' "i am surprised that [show hidden text] have a wikipedia entry..." helped me a bit even without the hidden text!

made a meal of that

You solved it in 250 guesses
Your accuracy was 44.00%
Globally, 4088 players have solved today's Redactle so far

went down the disease route, cow pox etc. and the red circle with central spot sounded like ticks, lyme disease, spirochetes etc. was none of these

149 guesses, 54% accuracy -- unlike puzzle #37 where I had a clear idea of what the thing was, but didn't know the word, it took me over 100 guesses to even get a sense of the general vicinity of what the thing was.

oh wow, sorry koogs - your post was a joke. It helped me inadvertently because I thought you’d actually done today’s!

High score today of 584!

wow that's dedication!

48, wasted 28 guesses before trying species.

19 guesses! my best score by a lot.

blargh 222 just didn't think of it I did try "bite" and "insect" halfway through and it showed kind of something but "bites" and "insects" would have got me there in a snap

alba i think you're ready to go pro

i stupidly cheated at the end assuming it must be some bloodsucking insect that i'd never heard of - couldn't let go of the thought that it'd be the same 3 letter word repeating like "tse tse"

I got thrown a bit because Africa and South America were the only continents I hit and I don't think of bed bugs as having an original habitat.

#38 was a 'did not participate' - weekend stuff just completely in the way. Fitted in 15 guesses, & given a favourable domain and what I already had would have got there under 100.

Looking at #39 after next coffee.

#39 in 18 insects by 14, then fly, ant, bug. Long pause staring at the first 3 letter word and wondering if this was an American thing that I hadn't heard of before remembering the existence of these little shits.

Nice work again Alba - and how'd you get yesterday's in one? (Amazing btw - I don't think that's been marvelled at anything like enough). The best way in I noticed was the chapter-and-verse stuff but even if I'd played with focus I'd have been homing in for a few guesses.

Thanks woof. For Abraham it was the same old tell as with prophecy that it was something biblical from the chapter verse punctuation, yeah. So I was looking for "Christianity"/"Christian"/"Judaism" in the intro to see how closely it was something biblical and doing that the second sentence looked like a succession of “In Christianity … in Judaism … in Islam”. There seemed a good change that the the two-letter word after each was “he”, so was thinking of big (judging by the length of the article) seven-letter name figures in the … Abrahamic religions and he came to mind shortly after I began fretting that I wasn't sure how to spell Ezekiel.

In a way I'm more pleased with #39 where I had a feeling the last word of the first sentence was 'night' because I couldn't think of another word that length would follow 'at' as a final word early on. I'd wasted my first two goes on world and war I think but I had a feeling from looking at what turned out to be the 'Society and culture' section that it was a non-literary thing that had a small imprint in the arts and that lone quotation in the subsection above the two books would be something like a children's rhyme. So when 'night' popped up in that, the bed bugs saying leapt out at me.

I'm very much expecting another protist-style blowout today to bring me back down to earth.

#39 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_bug ick!

15 today!

329!

My first solve

Also, perhaps not coincidentally, my first attempt on a desktop computer not a phone

So much for posting ILX's high score lol.

#40 180 / 47%

I really ought to reorient my approach because I think I'm going too specific a lot of the times, which results in a lot of dead-ends. Today, I got stuck on countries and didn't think to try food till 151.

I solved today's Redactle (#40) in 297 guesses with an accuracy of 60.27%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

Annoying as put the plural in guess 130 but didn’t try the singular until 297.

#40
You solved it in 47 guesses
Your accuracy was 70.21%
Globally, 3339 players have solved today's Redactle so far

would've got it 4 guesses earlier if i hadn't spelt it 'desert' by mistake

#40 in 40, 55%.

#40 in 7 world > france > food > life > meal > drink > dessert

might just give up and go home!

#40 in 77 guesses, I think I don't care enough about getting the answer as quickly as possible, because I generally start with categorical type words or really common words just to have more blanks filled in, to have a better sense of the text? Anyway now i am hungry

86 guesses, had some idea it was about food but didn't get dessert until bean then pie.

It's too satisfying to fill in the would could should were etc. filler words to really go for the low numbers.

It's too satisfying to fill in the would could should were etc. filler words to really go for the low numbers.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, May 16, 2022 12:19 PM (twelve minutes ago)

exactly! This is probably why our results tend to be in the same range (except for when you totally get it and I am too dense).
I started guessing food related stuff when I guessed "French" and there were significant results. Like, what are significant things that came from France? ... food

I solved today's Redactle (#40) in 47 guesses with an accuracy of 48.94%.

26

53, would've gotten it a lot sooner if i just guessed dessert instead of listing out every dessert i could think of

I solved today's Redactle (#40) in 262 guesses with an accuracy of 40.84%. didn’t get the food angle until 247, then it was over quickly

It's too satisfying to fill in the would could should were etc. filler words to really go for the low numbers.

#40 in 56 - disappointed but not much to say here. Poking around that French stuff early, but my brain was heading towards clothes, gambling and law as areas of French vocab borrowings. Don't hit food till 36 and keep getting pulled away when associated words aren't getting great results.

I spent ages staring at this one before making any guesses; convinced myself it was some sort of booze but there were just too many things that I couldn't quite fit; some of the bullets pointed bits near the bottom that were like a_____ of _______ and a ______ of a ______ of ________ just had to be recipes of some sort; got it in 10 after initially being a bit too specific, luckily went down the sweet route first.

I think I might enjoy the process of just instinctively wanging loads of words in more than I do the process of thinking about this very carefully in order to keep the score low; I play this on my phone which makes detailed consideration trickier I think.

#40 in 7

― Alba

Crazy good!

true - gets more tense staring at a blank wordle as time goes on, gritted teeth, telling myself it's going to be single figures today.

I find it strangely disappointing when I get it right and everything gets filled in, I forget all the things that were perplexing me - what could that two letter word there be? Is that the name of a book? The air of mystery just vanishes.

Yes! On the rare occasions that I go back to see what a section that I was wrestling with was, it’s just not an interesting exercise. The disenchantment is instant.

i did have a look for the lone á in yesterday's

#40 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dessert

(i can't see an easy way of looking back at previous puzzles, not even what they were, hence the above. and i hide it because i figure there could be people still working on it, still with the window open)

my heartbreak moment with these, as well as the reveal, is the first 0 guess.

I solved today's Redactle (#41) in 47 guesses with an accuracy of 53.19%.

#41 in 1

Back in the game.

#41
You solved it in 3 guesses
Your accuracy was 100.00%
Globally, 369 players have solved today's Redactle so far

woot (should've been 2, could've been 1. "a-????" obviously "a-line". guessed 'dress' rather than 'skirt')

Happy little chug through 35 guesses, very pleasant. Shoulda paid more attention to a-____.

2! I saw a-____ but nothing sprang to mind. tried an impulsive first guess then a minute later it came to me, damnit!

#41 in 68 guesses -- I too took note of the "a-____" and first thought it had to do with buildings, but got 0 hits on "frame"

#41 in 30 guesses with 53% accuracy. I thought quite long and hard about the a-____ but a-line just wouldn't come to me at first. I kept thinking a-frame

#41 in 1

Back in the game.

Excellent!

in 4!

A friend of mine also got it in 1 today, using exactly the same logic as koogs above.

Tougher than it should have been, 82/55% toga tunic robe... kaftan...muu-muu ran out of 'dress' styles after a while and then got skirt

you people are insane

i'm guessing the smoking gun is "a-____" but i can't think of what that could be other than "team"

xp X a-line

i can't see an easy way of looking back at previous puzzles, not even what they were,

If you've completed them in the browser you're in, you can go to Stats in the menu.

yeah but multiple devices and multiple fails

I solved today's Redactle (#42) in 4 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%.

Guess who miscounted the number of letters in health

#41 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skirt

#41
You solved it in 28 guesses
Your accuracy was 57.14%
Globally, 1679 players have solved today's Redactle so far

^ #42

Three!

All that stuff about Round and round was very perplexing but I just went with the most obvious 12-letter word to find in such a context and that was that. The Round stuff still doesn't mean anything to me!

I solved today's Redactle (#42) in 17 guesses with an accuracy of 64.71%.

4, bloody American spellings.

72, 52.78 -wasted so many guesses with usual filler

9. My first word was organisation, my last word was… organization.

5 guesses. should have been 4, thought it was cute to try “golf” for my second guess

I solved today's Redactle (#42) in 106 guesses with an accuracy of 51.89%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

Caught out by UK spelling, if I’d done US spelling would have got it in 48.

-ise is uk, no? i am and thats what i use.

I did the same as Mike T above, though considerably slower.

6 - I tried united and health along the way

(and Switzerland for fun)

the other day i was feeling a little annoyed with myself over how long these all seem to be taking me to solve and how i couldn’t figure out how so many of you were solving it in fewer than 10 guesses

then i got today’s in 4 lol

got it in 9. first two guesses were "world" and "organization" and then i tortured myself trying to figure out the middle word. capitalized "round" really threw me for a loop. eventually just started guessing topics that would've been relevant on a global scale around WWII.

speaking of "round" man i wish the dev would update the common word list. i have no idea why random words like that are sometimes included while the different tenses of "is" still aren't. but the dev has now been completely AWOL from socials for over a month now so i don't have much hope for that

ran off with all that sweet Redactle _______

The site has ads now(?) so he's doing *some* work on it, so yeah, the lack of QOL improvements is a little annoying.

Yeah I was originally thinking "not gonna whine too much because maybe he died or something" and then I saw he added ads lol

#42 in 17 - the round stuff distracted me into sport & tv for a bit but got there in the end

I don't mind some of the flakiness, like where the bad redaction gives you clues (dim flattering sense that you would definitely have cracked Enigma), but there's definitely weird stuff around ('hz' not hitting as Will M said upthread; I'm still a bit bothered by saints not hitting saints' but I can see how unredacting apostrophes could be awkward).

Right at the start I would have wanted plurals (or -s appended forms) for free; now, that feels like part of the game and I don't want it.

I do like how (in its limited way) Redactle supports different playing styles - some people count letters, some don't; some people stare at the board for 5 minutes before typing their first word, some people dive right in and feel their way around.

#42 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Organization with a 'z'

some people dive right in and feel their way around

Speaking of which: I solved today's Redactle (#43) in 321 guesses with an accuracy of 63.55%. I spent a hundred guesses trying to uncover a film career, but once I got to author, I still had a hard time -- no hits for genre/genres, not a modernist, etc. -- and at one point I started guessing common men's names in English, which, given the answer, LOL. I needed children (@319 with 23 hits) to finally get me there.

Solved this one in 11. figured from all the italics that it had to be a writer, guessed British, and his was one of the first short names I could think of.

123, 73% - got science fiction and fantasy writer pretty early but I only know Dahl from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

took my sweet time feeling and filling my way around and got it in 148 guesses with an accuracy of 81.76% (highest accuracy since Streep’s perfect 100)

Got there in 8. I spotted That Was The Week That Was buried in there, and thought this is a heck of an entry for Frank Muir or Peter Cook. I did try (half) the latter though!

#43
You solved it in 10 guesses
Your accuracy was 90.00%
Globally, 4294 players have solved today's Redactle so far

went for early glory with Marco...

United is a handy word, given that it matches States or Kingdom. both here...

all that time mike has spent watching Tales of the Unexpected has finally paid off...

20, 85% - I spotted that was the week that was but that was the clue that was no help; guessing 'world' gave me (danny) the (champion) of the world.

#43 in 23 guesses with an accuracy of 91.30%

my first time counting letters, which definitely was the key here

took my sweet time feeling and filling my way around and got it in 148 guesses with an accuracy of 81.76% (highest accuracy since Streep’s perfect 100)

― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Thursday, May 19, 2022 10:59 AM (one hour ago)

similar -- 156 guesses, 87% accuracy

2!

Nice one!

I did it in 9. Novelist > British > poet > war > novel > e > India > Roald > Dahl

I saw what looked like That Was The Week That Was too but that didn't help me, sadly

got it in 53 took me way too long to remember children's literature is a thing. however i am proud that i could see "He served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War" without guessing anything, which makes me feel very smart. (though i did guess "royal" to be sure)

it was the list along the lines of "The _____, The _____ and _____ and the _____ _____" that tipped me off

oh nice seandalai - chaotic 13 here - spotted 'That was the week that was' in there & took an initial punt on Peter Cook (Probably not US-famous enough to be a sensible guess?), then ground it out. Lucky even on 13 tbh - I was puzzling out '_____-_____ writer' in the definition and thought 'young-adult???' which pointed me to the answer. It was 'short-story writer', of course.

xp
haha those lists were just making my smart brain tell my dumb brain 'no, still not CS Lewis'

2, 100%

In 3! Wasted one on England! For some reason my mind went Ethelred the Unready … Alexander the Great … Ming the Merciless … Conan the Barbarian err, now I’m stuck let’s stick something in

#43 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl

#44
You solved it in 2 guesses
Your accuracy was 100.00%
Globally, 1450 players have solved today's Redactle so far

1450 solvers in the 20 minutes it's been live...

my first through was Suleiman the Magnificent but I actually counted letters for once

3 - went with Richard at first.

I solved today's Redactle (#44) in 9 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%.

still getting into this game, but pleased with this result

2, disappointed it wasn't fungus the bogeyman

solved #44 in 43 (74.42%)

18 / 77%

Happy any time I get under a hundred guesses, counting the letters probably could've saved me a couple wasted guesses but otherwise a lot easier (for me) today.

21 guesses, 100% accuracy -- Probably the most focused on getting it in the fewest number of guesses than in the past ... my first guess was "great" and it only returned 3 words, so I assumed it was a British person and not a Russian one. then I guessed "war" and it only returned 2 ... then I went with "his" and "he" to determine the gender of the person, and if in fact, it was a person and not a thing or place. Though, at that point, I could have wracked my brain for historical British rulers that didn't go to "war" and only engaged in "battle" (25 results)... I figured I would just guess common names of British royalty ... William, Henry, Edward

4

Wasted one on England!

went with Richard at first.

ah nuts :(

any mod around?

In 2.

English-centric for a change. but these aren't fun. prefer it when it takes about 100.

#44 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Conqueror

#45
You solved it in 3 guesses
Your accuracy was 100.00%
Globally, 755 players have solved today's Redactle so far

wasted one on a word that was obvious

I solved today's Redactle (#45) in 35 guesses with an accuracy of 60.00%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

Back to back days under 100, I think this thread has made me a little more circumspect about filling out some sentences, as well as having a better feel for when the answer is more generalized.

Theory at 2 led me to evolution and biological and I spent several guesses exploring scientific concepts before I entered patent, child, inheritance, and legal.

all the -in-??? stuff was obviously -in-law. then marriage which was in the first paragraph. then the answer

18, 100%

Best yet, still a long way off woof and koogs. I solved today's Redactle (#45) in 15 guesses with an accuracy of 80.00%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

Redactle #45 in 22 with 81% accuracy Bit more fun, koogs!

2! Similar logic to koogs

3 by total luck

just glancing over it i thought it would be related to science, especially with the first sentence starting with "In" which makes me think "In (scientific field or proces), (word) is etc." wasted a guess on "volume," then tried "law" as in "law of physics or whatever," which opened up all the in-laws.

33 guesses the syntax first made me think it was about a game, then it looked like it might be about language and dialect, then i ended up with "one (or more) people" and I guessed the term, not knowing it was the right answer, but because a current project at work is related to how said term is defined for the purpose of zoning and building classifications

23 despite spotting in-law straight away and getting birth and marriage not long after. I blame the two beers I've had.

51 guesses for me. lol at me spending a lot of time guessing every kind of relation i could think of after getting “law” before zooming out for the answer

that 2 up upthread was #44 - same as everyone - lettercounted, picked a sane Something the Something historical figure & checked that it made sense against the text (plausible 'William I' in the first sentence). Completely forgot about Richard the Lionheart/Richard I but I think would have stuck with William after scrutinising the article.

#45 - 1 - very happy with that after a long time looking at it - -in-law was the big clue, which had me humming and hawing over wedding/marriage stuff but reluctant to try a 7 when it felt gettable. Spotted the section that (from the hyphens) seemed to be explaining the rules around 'great-" and "great-grand". Went in on the big topic and hit.

Well done, woof.

Yeah that’s amazing.

(I got it in 40 which I’m happy with considering how long I spent thinking it was something to do with cheese )

same as everyone - lettercounted

You can lettercount on a phone (or at least on an iPhone) as if you were selecting characters to copy and paste)

#45 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family

#46
You solved it in 30 guesses
Your accuracy was 46.67%
Globally, 914 players have solved today's Redactle so far

scattergun approach, tanked the accuracy

I solved today's Redactle (#46) in 150 guesses with an accuracy of 46.67%.

Over a hundred guesses again, feels like coming home. I got animal straight away, but needed a long time to figure out that it was a reptile and a weird comparison to birds didn't help. I knew it was egg laying and that environmental factors help determine sex, so that also sent me down a fishy goose chase. Teeth was what put on the right path, eventually.

i went the dinosaur route, thinking it was icthyosaur or iguanadon (the 'An' meant it started with a vowel). but 'dinosur' was a 0 which threw me. 'United' and then compass directions, didn't help. 'lizard' did.

Redactle in 105 FFS. I'm pretty sure I thought of alligator quite early on but ruled it out when the was zero hits for reptile. I now find there was a single one for reptiles plural

Got it in a very lucky 1.

wow well done! I got it in ten, wasted a few guesses on bird/insect/fish/mammal before I saw the name derivation at the start of the second para - then a couple more trying to guess the language.

14, which was really just me randomly guessing animals that begin with a vowel

You can lettercount on a phone (or at least on an iPhone) as if you were selecting characters to copy and paste)

125, 52% - also just started guessing animals with a vowel after I didn’t have much luck narrowing it down via territory

pretty sure I’m far from the only one who doesn’t do lettercounting - not possible on a phone anyway, and I’m actually fine with not having this as an extra factor/helpline while playing this game.
filling in the gaps by using logical and strategic thinking (or just dumb word bombing lol) and getting closer to the solution slowly but surely is much more my idea of fun.
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Sunday, May 22, 2022 7:31 AM (four hours ago)

yes! <3

#46 -- 141 guesses -- I struggled with this one because the word reptile doesn't appear at all in the article, along with other words one would assume to be found or found more prominently in a wikipedia article about the subject

xp milo -- I got to the answer the same way tbh i guessed otter, just because it started with a vowel, even though I was pretty certain it was not an otter

Amazing, Tim - a nice one to get in 1.

#46 in 18 - played myself in a similar way to alba and others - probably animal, 9 letters, starts with a vowel (almost certainly a, judging by the latin names), 2 species. That did make me think alligator, but 'reptile' getting nothing threw me (and going for that confirmation doesn't even makes sense… because my next guess would be alligator, so why not just guess that?). f'ed around with mammals and plants and fungi and armadillos before going back to the right answer in faint desperation.

filling in the gaps by using logical and strategic thinking (or just dumb word bombing lol) and getting closer to the solution slowly but surely is much more my idea of fun.
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Sunday, May 22, 2022 7:31 AM (four hours ago)

Ah I've been finding the fun in the period before the first guess - assembling the evidence, looking for clues, straining to construe chunks that almost make sense, trying to work out what I know and what I need to know, weighing up a showboat get-it-in-one concrete guess against finding out more. It is a bit more relaxing once I've blown a single-figure win tho.

109 but the journey was fun

#46 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator

I solved today's Redactle (#47) in 118 guesses with an accuracy of 54.24%.

Another physics one, and I was afraid I wasn't going to get it. I did notice that "and/or" gets rendered as a single word, which kind of sucks.

#47
You solved it in 25 guesses
Your accuracy was 84.00%
Globally, 2445 players have solved today's Redactle so far

surprised it's that high tbh. maybe the weekend numbers are just lower.

yeah, physics, because of the frequencies. but went back to old favourite words after getting nowhere. 'one' of the '????' -> 'one of the four' ... 'states of matter'.

15, 80% - no on solid, liquid… glad it was plasma because I can’t remember the fourth state of matter

Redactle #47 in 1. Now I can retire.

#47 in 7 - pretty happy - the pressure and frequency clues had me poking around elements and chemistry, but then tried 'physics', suspecting rightly that it might give me the bracketed clarifier in the title. Tried 'matter' thinking it was some particle but that gave me enough of the the first sentence & then eliminated liquid based on how it seemed to be explaining it later. Thinking more, I was aiming for the end of the opening sentence with 'matter'… but if I strongly suspected that, I should have stopped and spotted a) no plausible place for 'particle/s' b) a plausible 'states' just before it.

damn michael nice 🎉

> Redactle #47 in 1.

b-but it was two words

> the fourth state of matter

gas?

Yeah, the second word is the disambiguation so it auto-filled once I got the main. Didn't expect it to!

Not sure why mTorr wasn't redacted but that was the giveaway for me.

never heard of mTorr! 24 for me, wasted too many speculative guesses at the start, then was getting somewhere with pressure, volume, etc, before trying 'four' in the opening sentence which gave it away.

I didn’t solve Redactle in 645 guesses because I decided to just google the fourth state of matter. pretty sure it wouldn’t have come to me before my bedtime after having thrown everything physics-related I could think of at the wall (iow very little). I mean, if you can’t solve this thing with about 80% of the text unlocked…

apart from mTorr kHz was also unredacted. weird glitches in the system!

#47 in 6

#47 was Plasma (Physics)

#48 ??? ???
You solved it in 2 guesses
Your accuracy was 100.00%
Globally, 735 players have solved today's Redactle so far

109 for me

didn’t have a clue about anything whatsoever until I got to *Six* Day War at guess 101, after that it was a done deal

I solved today's Redactle (#48) in 24 guesses with an accuracy of 75.00%.

#48
You solved it in 2 guesses
Your accuracy was 100.00%

me too.

28, 75%

I got it in 2, but that was after about 15-20 minutes of staring at it in confusion.

got it in 85 after wasting a ton of guesses on numbers and common science/math variable letters. was absolutely baffled by the single-character words towards the beginning... turns out they were slashes?

then i dumped in my list of like 50 common words because i was getting fed up with it, got it a few guesses later.

no idea why that second sentence wasn't caught in the hidden code, i put the end bit at the end of the post. not that it spoils much

test does spoiler text not work anymore if you include

a line break and pre-code text

:\

put a space on the empty line

thank

you

#48 in 2 as well.

#48 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea. in 2 mofos.

You solved it in 3 guesses
Your accuracy was 66.67%
Globally, 1771 players have solved today's Redactle so far

fucking typo

65, 75%

Got it in 2, first thing that came to mind.

Also in two. That's six of the last nine in ten or fewer guesses, four of those solved immediately. Am I just starting to think in Redactle? Will I lose other skills as a result? Oh wait...

#49: 129 / 61.24%

I got stuck on statistics for the first ~40 guesses until I guessed system at 45, which then led to solar and mass, though I couldn't get away from math till 66 when I did force > weak > nuclear, then I was like, "Oh no, science again."

#49 in 89, threw the kitchen sink at it.

I think it's not the first time I've let maths stuff steer me into an early assumption it's a mathematical concept

I dread it when my first glance over the page points to science or math.

4 guesses in and i think i'm gonna have to cheat to get the second word... the only 5 letter word i can think of is "waste"

yeah i cheated. i was feeling so good at first. could see "is the process by which" at the top, so definitely science, and "was discovered in (4 letter year so you know it's not ancient history)" and rightly guessed "curie" for the second name. "radioactive" was as far as i could get on my own

#49 in 28.

#48 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_decay

I solved today's Redactle (#50) in 51 guesses with an accuracy of 86.27%.

sorry number was wrong

#49 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_decay

#50 80 / 61.25%

7 guesses, 100%. maaaaybe could have got it in one as I was thinking in the right direction before I started guessing.

30, 87%

#50
You solved it in 98 guesses
Your accuracy was 61.22%
Globally, 3391 players have solved today's Redactle so far

i am slightly ashamed

lol at the tempting-looking list at the bottom that turned out to be a list of japanese names that were impossible to guess

otherwise terrible. went around the entire world, including 'asia' and didn't get much. finally tried china and that opened it up

i am slightly ashamed

Because you needed more guesses than this habitual triple-digit guesser? jk

I solved today's Redactle (#50) in 98 guesses with an accuracy of 69.39%. Same as koogs, similar trajectory. Ain’t no shame in my game tho.

i am surrounded by relevant books and dvds. i am literally wearing this tshirt as i type https://www.uniqlo.com/eu/en/news/topics/2021060701/img/104T_SC6FSC16F2105245zZ6ba.jpg

I solved today's Redactle (#50) in 43 guesses with an accuracy of 62.79%.

had nothing to latch onto until i hit king and realized there was probably a "lear" after one of them. flailed around a bit until i hit arts, noticed that martial might fit before, and since i had typed "no" earlier (a word i guess i never realized wasn't automatic?) i saw a XXXX-no-XXX construction
a couple of times and thought oh, japanese seven letters martial arts ok lets try this

I got #50 in 85 guesses with 89% accuracy! "war" is one of the first words I guess unless it's obvious that the topic is not a human; the fact that there was only one word before the instances of "war" made me deduce that it predates the 20th century, and "england" and "europe" and "jewish" and "rome" were either blank or minimal. I got "China" and "Japan" fairly soon after. At some point, after getting a lot of filler words in, I got the phrase "Japanese popular culture," and then noticed a verb was a 3rd person plural as opposed to singular, and so I guessed "their" and "they" ... and I got it by starting with popular terms

Redactle #50 in 58 guesses (70% accuracy) meh.

verb was a 3rd person plural as opposed to singular,

there was a similar clue on the second word, 4 letters, couldn't be is or are, had to be plural AND past tense, were. unfortunately that just made me think templars 8(

105 guesses. For some reason it took me forever to get the leap from China to Japan. (Not much of a leap.)

i love reading the routes everyone took

#50 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai

#51 in 8.

Similar to Koogs, I had clues close at hand for yesterday (solved in 21). I'd just ordered food from a restaurant named Edo ffs - that was 15 hits right there!

23 0s in a row...

I solved today's Redactle (#51) in 131 guesses with an accuracy of 47.33%.

You solved it in 360 guesses
Your accuracy was 36.94%

Apparently today's had my head spinning around.

You solved it in 207 guesses
Your accuracy was 29.47%
Globally, 1981 players have solved today's Redactle so far

woeful

108, 43.52%

but it generally seems harder today given the global solvers (or it's a friday and people have lives)

15 guesses here. Got law as my second guess then was floundering for a bit

44 guesses, 50%, lol at me just typing court-y words i vaguely remember from procedurals until a hit

100 guesses in, still completely in the dark. It's almost thrilling. I know I'm going to be disappointed when I get it.

Got it in 158. I ruled out novels and art and animals but other than that had no idea, so rather than guessing different topics I tried getting as many general filler words as possible to see if anything popped out at me. Turns out that's not a great strategy. Having guessed 'can' and 'do' and 'does' early on I couldn't shake the feeling it was something that had agency. I was also confused Private Eye turned up, maybe that should have pointed me towards libel and the law but shortly after that I guessed 'right' which led me to 'constitutional' and then law. Still took me over 30 guesses from there.

Finally it hit me, at guess 443! Similar to ledge, I was completely in the dark until guess 94, where I got “law”. Filled up a litany of blanks, but I guess my (English) legalese just isn’t strong enough. The new day did wonders for me tho. I had stopped at 413 last night, but only needed another 30 today. Result!

#51 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injunction

#52 in 2. First guess was just to make sure I was in the right area, and then it's just counting letters in the various categories of country, city, language, local name for that city, etc.

I solved today's Redactle (#52) in 9 guesses with an accuracy of 77.78%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

I went with the golf approach this time to see if I could hack it, and apparently I can in I try. And while it's satisfying to post something under 10 guesses, I do miss the feeling of exploration I get from the "uncover full sentences" approach.

The blanks seemed to describe a capital city (@1) that also has some superlative characteristic ascribed to it, and so I tried area @2 to try to see if it was on the larger or smaller side (which was inconclusive), and so I threw away a guess of smaller @4 to follow up with largest @5. Then I counted(!) 6 letters in the answer and having previously confirmed that it was in Europe (@3, then European at 7), my first thought was Madrid, which was dumb because then I counted the letters in its country, but it did show up so I figured it had to be on the Iberian Peninsula.

#52
You solved it in 1 guesses
Your accuracy was 100.00%
Globally, 1081 players have solved today's Redactle so far

suck it

as mike, really, only i went for the glory and got lucky

Yay! Always good to see someone ace it.

1 guess, took a bit of thought, my first idea was something astronomical - largest moon? of what? before thinking what quantity might be stated without units - population.

Hole in 1 too here.

51, 74% - I thought it was science related before I filled in anything

Moon my first thought too, ledge, then city occurred to me quite quickly then Lisbon instantly on seeing it was six letters. When I’d counted up the letters in Portugal and Portuguese that sealed it. Surprised it doesn’t have a larger population.

I solved today's Redactle (#52) in 35 guesses with an accuracy of 80.00%. No letter-counting!

got it in 6 though still had to cheat as i'm an ignorant american who can't remember names of european capitals! also originally thought it was a moon and would've stuck with that if there were an 8-lettered planet in our solar system. my first two guesses were "AD" and "BC" because i was surprised to see so many ████ ██ structures... usually if we're talking in BC/AD terms you don't get specific years. so i figured it had to be a city that was well-documented in ancient times (though it turns out most of those years were still estimates). originally assumed something in the middle east or northern africa but "east" and "arabic" only popped up a few times, and i figured "east" would also probably rule out asia. after that it was just a game of finding the right 8-lettered european country

#52 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon

#53
You solved it in 68 guesses
Your accuracy was 52.94%
Globally, 1092 players have solved today's Redactle so far

i had covalent at 38 during my 'try all the chemistry words i know' phase

Redactle #53 in 48 guesses with an accuracy of 64.58%. Chemistry was my first guess but was just settling in for a slog when one of the words I threw at it came good

got it in one, was a bit of a 'here goes nothing'.

68% but I cheated for the 92nd guess at the end because I ran out of chemistry terms remembered from getting a 71 in AP Chemistry 22 years ago - covalent hit early but I can't remember ever reading 'valence' before

in one is quite impressive, so much more so with this than with 'Lisbon'.

47 - I finally remembered what that thing is called

in one is quite impressive, so much more so with this than with 'Lisbon'.

Also in one. Proceeded as if my guess of what in the brackets was correct, and the entire first paragraph made sense.

i took French rather than chemistry because i was already doing 3 sciences. poor decision, 40 years ago...

one of many

#53 was Valence (Chemistry)

#54
You solved it in 9 guesses
Your accuracy was 77.78%
Globally, 979 players have solved today's Redactle so far

76 but I cheated. never took a physics class so i was never gonna get this in a million years.

I gave up on this one, which is maddening because I was on this Wikipedia page recently, possibly because of Redactle. Does anyone remember if a similar answer was featured?

0.020885434273039 pounds per square foot, obv

leee the plasma page used 'Pa' in places

120, 22%, cheated at the end just so I could see how bad my accuracy was

2, damnit! went for ampere first.

Also 2! Because I wanted to make sure my assumption of symbol was correct, and then it was a case of figuring out a six-letter derived SI unit with a two-character symbol - I think there's only this one.

Was confused by the whole where x is blah and y is blah section and it turns out that leads to nothing cos the formula isn't there.

284 guesses this was an "anti-American" puzzle ... now I know how the non-Americans feel with a lot of these ... I spent quite a while on this one and kept guessing "meter" and being frustrated and then baffled

i guessed every single letter of the alphabet

5 - isn't 2 the minimum or are you not counting the word in parentheses?

you don't need to hit the word in brackets to win.

ooooh

Still working on this at 17 guesses. May give up.

Got unit in 1, SI in 9 (not that it helped, but that two letter word was bugging me from the start), pressure in 16 then was sure it was newton but no. I think psi is the only other pressure unit I know

Gave up.

#54 was Pascal_(unit)

i have the redactle yips today

(actually i mea the darts version of the yips, whatever that's called)

Lazarenko's Conundrum.

argh that was meant to be hidden - any mods around?

got fluid dynamics and a bunch of related terms but pretty sure I'm a goner on this one

Second day I gave up and googled. Don't think I'd have ever got that so glad to have saved myself

Got today's in 22. My first stab at "In (5, 8)" was legal parlance but that was fruitless so I hovered around maths and science until I saw what seemed to be Reynolds number down page and bob's your uncle.

automatically clicked on Milo's hidden text having forgotten that I'm not finished. I'm still not finished.

man, another one of *those*?

53 guesses, decently happy with that

218 just chucking sciencey words at it after a while, still fun though. Don't really feel I could have got it much sooner, I didn't miss any obvious (for me) clues.

189! took me 50 guesses to get to physics, which is too many, but by 80 I was swimming in kinetic energy and knew it was a great unsolved problem in physics, neither of which helped.

that was annoying. started again on my phone and it was another form of a word i had 10s of guesses ago, maybe even a spelling error (autocorrect helpful for once!)

'dartitis' is apparently their version of the yips although the -itis is generally an inflammation of something and this is a spasm. made up word.

#55 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbulence

16, 87.5%

kind of a wild card, thought it was going to be immigration across land bridges or something but bridges was a miss

ice bridges

Ha we were thinking along the same lines i tried numerous terms related to bodies of water and adjacent land and structures related to water

#56 98 / 34.69%

Didn't finish yesterday's, but felt a little better getting today's in under 100.

19, 78.95%, my first guess was bridge too. I guessed water at 11 out of the blue really, could've guessed ice a bit quicker i guess but can't complain.

You solved it in 112 guesses
Your accuracy was 42.86%
Globally, 4903 players have solved today's Redactle so far

disappointed it wasn't "pot noodles"

Spoiler, koogs :)

Got there in 12. Something which is a sport, but not always... er, log rolling... fly fishing...

99 not much to say I wandered around a lot

Yeah, 105. Water was the key again (a stab in the dark at 101)

Any fool know that Wikipedia entry for pot noodles is singular

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_Noodle

i eventually got sport but then ball too which took me in directions that were not relevant. wasted many on countries and compass points.

is everyone getting <=45% silica and produce for free?

15, with that assist.

start of the second para was the key, should have spotted it more quickly.

#57 140 / 42.86%

A proposal for terminology:
- Golfers: players who try to get the answer in as few guesses as possible
- Explorers (or sightseers?): players who like to fill in whole sentences

I'm a golfer who was getting warned for slow play so has decided to swing and hope a bit more.

But today: hole in one!

And yes huge unredacted hint in the middle but it was what looked like Year Without A Summer which gave it away.

oh I saw that but couldn't work it out.

billy idol kept getting in the way.

#56 was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_skating

#57 in 17 (58%)

81, 38% went too science-y for a bit, I don't think geology hit on this one did it? I keep trying the broadest science terms hoping that just once a chemical process clue will actually have "chemistry" in the text.

lol yeah I need to stop trying broadly generic terms that inevitably aren't in the text despite being "right" e.g., science or mathematics

27. Mediocre.

45, could have been worse.

shut it! xp

21 I thought it was something about space for a bit

Now they tell me

https://i.imgur.com/9t8y6FX.png

I solved today's Redactle (#57) in 24 guesses with an accuracy of 62.50%.

there was a record label about 20 years ago called simple machines and each release was named after one of those 6 things. that helped me.

http://simplemachines.net/machines.html

oh, Jenny toomey

14 today - I am not a golfer but estimate par could be around 6?

#57 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano

am slowly getting together a (crude) books version, currently wondering what to do with apostrophes... how does redactle handle 'don't' for instance, is it ##### or ###'#?

I solved today's Redactle (#58) in 17 guesses with an accuracy of 70.59%.

Nice, sean!

#58 in 2. Wasted one go on Africa, really – should have just ploughed in

8. I'm reluctant to letter count, but it is kind of silly not to sometimes

I solved today's Redactle (#58) in 13 guesses with an accuracy of 61.54%.

You solved it in 20 guesses
Your accuracy was 65.00%
Globally, 5406 players have solved today's Redactle so far

knew is was africa and west but typed those in anyway. guessed nigeria next despite all the 'bordered by' stuff which ruled that out

Alba, how did you know it was an African country just by looking at it?

5, 100% - I counted this time.

Did this one in 9. The Arabic As- prefix told me it was a word starting with an S, but none of the Arabic-speaking countries matched the info, so I thought it might be a province or region or something. I thought of the country in question as well, but too swiftly discarded it as non-Arabic speaking at first without checking against the available info, or I would have defo gotten it in 1, I swear. This was an open goal and I blew it!

Anagram - the pattern looked like “ is a country in (east/west) (continent)”. People say eastern/western Europe rather than east/west and there aren’t any other six-letter continents. Plus the list in brackets of alternative names suggested a lot of local languages and the “As-“ also didn’t look like a European language.

also one of the bordering countries was hyphenated and looked like a match for guinea-bissau. unfortunately my knowledge of the subject at hand isn't that great, had a few wrong guesses, took a couple to confirm my suspicions. then got an assist from my wife for a cheaty 8.

Today in 1.

Counting letters in the languages in brackets helped here too.

am slowly getting together a (crude) books version

I had this idea, would like to see it done!

I've got it tokenizing the source and displaying it as redacted text, based on 3 lists of words (which I've just realised could be two - the list with markup in it and the one with the given words could be the same list). will work on input today.

#58 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal

(ledge, i have sent you ilx mail)

I solved today's Redactle (#59) in 46 guesses with an accuracy of 69.57%.

I'm annoyed at myself because I got Frankenstein at 17 following modern which revealed LONG WORD, or the Modern LONG WORD, but kept thinking it was a place instead of a person. I guess even though I'm an explorer, I still have a bit of golfer in me!

16 today with my usual golfsploration - I try to think things through a bit but I also enjoy just throwing stuff out there and seeing what happens, the thrill of an unexpected bite is half the fun

57, 84.21%

'English poet and ?' - wasted guesses on critic and essayist - early but it took a bit to work out era

45 today. Went barking up the wrong tree thinking it was someone ancient after getting Greek early on

my thought process: after I got "poet", the very beginning ██████ ██████ █████, ███ █████ █████ before the birth/death dates made me think of some kind of nobility so I had a go at "Lord" and boom

hope this works

# Guess Hits
16 byron 246
15 lord 39
14 spring 1
13 poet 11
12 africa 0
11 french 3
10 russian 0
9 book 6
8 music 1
7 mime 0
6 german 0
5 america 1
4 king 3
3 author 2
2 actor 0
1 broadway 0

in 28 for me

This one was pretty quick: saw the (_____:) and tried French, Latin, then Greek. Then Greece, then ancient, which yielded nothing, then modern, which gave me Frankenstein, and that + Greece got me to Byron. Still took me 20 guesses because I threw some random words in there at first instead of thinking it out.

Solved it in 9, guessed "John" as the first name, thought it might be some kind of ruler and tried "king" and then "lord," my feeling around in the dark strategy worked pretty well.

Got there in 7; first guess was poet, figured it was full name, honorific/noble title but got slightly diverted by the dual language transliteration thing - thought it might be Persian or Chinese in which case I would have been clueless. But, duh, nationality started with a vowel so shouldn't have got distracted.

Got it in two! First thoughts were foreign royalty but scrolling through it became clear they were probably a writer, went back to the top and 'poet' looked likely, possibly 'english', and then it just came to me. To be clear this flash of inspiration came after 'reading' the thing for probably half an hour all told.

(ledge, i have sent you ilx mail)

thanks, will take a look when I get on actual computer, probably on monday!

on 96 guesses and struggling due to lack of domain knowledge. confused at the start of the first paragraph. will sleep on it.

(book version is pretty much working as long as you don't want to win because i've not written that part yet. might put a link up tomorrow. unlike(?) redactle i do need to prepare the game files (typically extracting one chapter per book), but am trying to make that as easy as possible, 2 minutes each kind of job. i have about 2 months worth downloaded but needing editing.)

???? ????? "poet and ????". but not iain banks, ezra pound, john keats or pamm ayres... absolutely no idea of time period...

The ???? after 'and poet' totally threw me. Maybe doing it on a phone yesterday didn't help but I never got the sense of that first par that might have led me in the direction of the aristocracy

I solved today's Redactle (#60) in 1 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%. Après moi, le déluge

#59 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron

was too late getting back to it so, fail here.

I joined the 1 club too!

I solved today's Redactle (#60) in 1 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

Knew it began with a vowel and had 4 letters, the hidden characters with subscripts indicated a chemical. Voila.

Redactle #60 in 1 yep!

#60
You solved it in 29 guesses
Your accuracy was 65.52%
Globally, 2856 players have solved today's Redactle so far

started off well with 'atom' but went physics rather than chemistry

(my book version is here: http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/bookish/index.html if you're curious. it isn't finished, am currently working on making it so you can press enter and not have to press the button. it's probably very simple...

if you go to http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/bookish/games.html there are links to 4 previous puzzles (one of the things i don't like about redactle))

i'll make another thread for bug reports etc somewhere, save cluttering up this thread

^ Bookish. it's like redactle but for books. beta testing / bugs etc

One here too.

Got Bookish 0605 in 3, which was absurdly lucky. (If this popped up on another thread, sorry!)

Ah yes I see now there’s a separate Bookish thread. I like it!

#60 in 6 - my guesses didn't help that much, it just didn't click till i started typing some words in.

#60 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid

5 today, my best ever.

#61: 56 / 69.64%

Nice whenever I get it in fewer guesses than the puzzle number. I did go on a bit of a wild goose chase when China gave me 7 hits, at which point I thought it was an Asian country, but when Pacific was a total miss, I realized I had to go to a different continent.

i need to read more maps

Redactle #61 in 23 (69.57%)

Got today's in 4; my best yet, I think!

14. I did think at first I was looking for five letters, and Egypt was my initial guess, but just couldn't bring Angola to mind

3 to figure out I need a six letter West African country and then... well it's not my strong suit.

it turns out that even with a map it takes me three attempts because even though i know it's Western and coastal my first two attempts are zambia and malawi which are neither

I solved today's Redactle (#61) in 7 guesses with an accuracy of 57.14%.

#61 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola

I solved today's Redactle (#62) in 22 guesses with an accuracy of 63.64%.

Got it in 2 - American entertainer of some kind (despite singer/writer/actor not fitting, turned out to be creator) with a two letter first name.

there goes my theory that it's america specific. struggling to think of two letter first names...

whoa 2. my first perfecto?? opened a notepad and wrote as many 2 letter first names as i could. saw the first full name was six letters so narrowed it down to Ed or Al. guessed right, then tried to think of an Ed with an 8 letter surname (thankfully checked myself before writing mcmahon)

oh my second perfecto. i got red sea in 2 as well i guess

oof 99. for some reason I assumed the two-letter first name meant it was initials, v dumb mistake

68. I should have spent longer thinking of two-letter first names after Bo gave me a bit of red herring, but Ed didn't pop into my head and I started to think it wasn't a two-letter name at all but instead initials like PJ that I'd never guess. I see now that Wikipedia does P.J. Proby at least with the full stops but I don't think it's consistent about this – I'm sure I've seen US done like that rather than U.S. Anyway, excuses excuses.

103 - I guess I had heard of him after all but it didn't spring to mind until I started searching for ethnicities and got "Irish"

95. I don't tend to try and guess it right off the bat by counting numbers and so on. I like chipping away at it bit by bit so that it gradually reveals itself.

4! one to establish gender, one wrong guess of a two-letter first name, then the correct first and last name

71 - got reporter, critic, New York Daily News, etc. but I didn't know Ed Sullivan as anything but a variety show host

373! My growing suspicion that this was going to be the kind of legendary figure that was *not* a household name outside the US proved to be right. Couldn’t identify his job description for the longest time. Only when I got to TV host it dawned on me that it might the guy from the show that Elvis famously performed on. Also assumed it would be a double-initial name, and didn’t think beyond that.

67 admittedly sort of cheated by eventually looking at variety show history despite literally thinking of the answer three minutes earlier. like others i thought the first name had to be initials and i think my brain didn't accept "ed" as a possible answer, it just had to be something stupid like "GK" or "FP" or "EE". i was also stuck on journalism stuff for a while and lucked out with "television" after similar entertainment fields, after guessing "critic."

#62 was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Sullivan

63 I thought I was looking for a specific principality or something within the Holy Roman Empire

geeeez 190... took me until around 80 to narrow it down to being something related to christianity even. the number of hits for catholic made me go down a catholic rabbithole for a while and didn't occur to me for a while to try protestant stuff.

I don't tend to try and guess it right off the bat by counting numbers and so on. I like chipping away at it bit by bit so that it gradually reveals itself.

i find this so much more satisfying, but all of the stats and stuff always push me towards trying to do it quick.