Defend The Indefensible: Wordle

Today's Octordle was certainly fun certainly on theme with spinning 8s at the top

i couldn't see a way of getting at old redactles. would be interested in having a go at the first dozen that i missed, for practice

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Redactle #17 in 33.

I solved today's Redactle (#17) in 66 guesses with an accuracy of 45.45%.

Surprised they are back on religion so quickly but once it seemed clear it was something with a long history I took a punt on church, helped by the Behind ——— ––– in the bibliography as Behind Closed Doors seemed an obvious fit and that seemed evocative of the Catholic church. Took me 21 goes to throw enough Catholic stuff at it to get cardinals then I was quite pleased the missing word wasn’t more esoteric than it turned out to be

Oh I see - each Redactle is randomly generated (from Wikipedia's 10,000 Vital Articles). I assumed the game’s creator was selecting it each day.

i wonder whether a similar thing using project Gutenberg's most popular books would be interesting? although looking at that list there are some things I'd never get, including 2 in tagalog inside the top 50

(redactle code talks to a server for session information and stats, ses.php / init.php. i think it's keeping your guesses there but i'll know more after 17:00 when it flips to the new one. wordle was a lot simpler and kept the state locally)

Makes sense if it's providing global stats. Meanwhile, I'm continuing to pull up the averages with a 385-guess effort today.

18 ???? 162 58.02%

I did it in 76. Good one.

i do have the tendency to fill in words that i really don't need to fill in. determined to know whether it's pope paul I or II or III or or IX or whatever when i don't really know the difference. ditto which century it is, fifth, sixth, seventh, who cares?

i did steer clear of typing 'bibliography' this time though.

Figuring out the relevant centuries has been helpful for me, but I also suck at this so. At least you can usually determine which millennium you're looking at based on the length of the word preceding "century"

Dammit, my boy is way better than me at Redactle. Carrot, Chopin, College of Cardinals, and even words that don’t begin with C, like today’s. Then again, I am way better than him at University Challenge. Complementary skills and all that.

got the redactle in 41 guesses today. A record for me I think.

got the wordle in two 3 days in a row now, my esp is activating

worldle has repeated a country for the third day on the trot, I think they've run out.

there were 5 year's worth of words in the original wordle code, but i don't know what changed when they got bought out

Aldo, did you pick up the update? It came up as a banner you could take or ignore recently.

today's redactle has me trying to remember lessons i took in 1986.

I got Redactle 19, but again, 305 guesses. Averages are WAY below that -- I guess that's pulled down by very few people getting the actual answer? IDK.

there were 5 year's worth of words in the original wordle code, but i don't know what changed when they got bought out

― koogs, Monday, April 25, 2022 11:21 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

It's basically the same code, except the NYT has removed a few words that it deemed either esoteric or offensive.

I tried taking the worldle update, maybe it didn't work?

Worldle answer was Costa Rica for me today, I don't remember getting it before though I occasionally forget to play so I have missed a couple.

19 ??????????? ???????????? 25 68.00%

one word within 20, the other word a complete (educated) punt.

the formatting is broken but doesn't really matter.

oh, aldo was talking about worldle, not wordle.

Teamwork on today’s Redactle: I got the second word, then he got the first. I was similarly taken back to A-level lessons, over 40 years ago and long forgotten.

Yeah I definitely had that Worldle answer before, and both Monaco and Uruguay from the previous two days.

Yeah I saw Monaco for the second time in Worldle, but I haven't been playing long enough to have seen any other dupes.

Gave up on today's Redactle at 96 because I didn't want to spend the next 19 hours in an inclined plane type situation. I did get distribution but after flexing my weak stats muscles for bit ran out of ideas for the first word

oh yeah, I definitely saw Costa Rica before. Maybe it's recycling, the source code link is on the ? page but I can't dig in to it until later.

I got today's Redactle in 12. Spotting what looked like a list of awards, I guessed "role" at 6, then "actor" and "actress". Then I saw repeated mentions of an italicised Out Of, which gave me "Africa" at 9. "Jane" (as in Fonda) was 10, "Streep" at 11.

Yup, stunned myself in 4. that italicised 'out of' in the intro set me off very early - basically just checked his or her.

Yesterday, tapped out at 41 had distribution, but had nothing after 'standard' beyond guessing plausible-sounding mathy things.

oh - a thought - if saying 'we got it super-quick' about today's is in itself a clue, pls mods delete post.

Redactle #20 in 22! I didn't notice Out of but the parenthetical in the beginning looked like a birth date, and a lucky guess of "she" led me down the right path for once.

19, I figured it might be out of Africa but decided to pussyfoot around first with actor (which didn't help), film, etc. also couldn't remember who was in it, and tried Jane (Fonda) and (Kathleen) Turner.

A Facebook friend got it in 3, again by spotting Out Of. So perhaps 2 is an attainable score today.

20 ????? ?????? 30 96.67%

had the gender and occupation wrong for the first 80%. 'eat' was my one 0 word

more wasted guesses on Here We Go Again when the ????? ???! had made that obvious

yeah 2 would have been possible if you squinted long enough at the awards section at the end, I got it in 7 but didn't really learn anything from my first couple of guesses

I spotted “Out of” but sexistly my mind went to Robert Redford so Robert was my first guess. Then I wasted a couple of goes with his and her. “Into the” was also there as a title but I couldn’t get “Into the Wild” out of my head. Woods!

you can drag your mouse over the rectangles and count the individual letters if you're careful

I got Redactle in 2. Actually, I got it in 3 because I stupidly typed both words for the first guess, which it turned into a single word with no space.

A vastly different experience from yesterday, when I used up 300+ guesses and never solved it. (I figured out "distribution," but not "exponential," even though I guessed "exponent" somewhere along the way.)

just wanted to say thread title warmed my heart

Got in 3 as well.

oh - a thought - if saying 'we got it super-quick' about today's is in itself a clue, pls mods delete post.

got it in 10, add me to the pile of africa-guessers, but then i saw "into the woods" as well and having no idea that she was involved in any production of that, took a roundabout route to the answer. i was thinking after yesterday's nightmare that i wish there was a version of redactle just for dumb assholes like me but maybe it would be too easy

feeling really dumb for having tried actor but not actress so then going in many wrong directions despite knowing that it was a woman, I had "she" and knowing that it had something to do with movies. Got it in 41.

in my experience 'him' / 'his' gets a lot of hits regardless

also 'that' and 'this'. it's odd they aren't in the common words list.