#29, rather
― Alba, Thursday, 5 May 2022 17:01 (two years ago) link
Once I’d established from “act” and “species” that it was something animals did, I was far too attached to thinking it was something about reproduction.
― Alba, Thursday, 5 May 2022 17:11 (two years ago) link
Alba: It kind of does, actually! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism#Sexual_cannibalism
― Human-shaped trash bag (Leee), Thursday, 5 May 2022 17:26 (two years ago) link
#29 in 76, 28.95% - had almost nothing till 'animal' at 53, 'species' at 54, and slowly got there when I realised sexual/mating etc wasn't filling it out properly - needed something tangential to that. Hmmm. Just realising that I thought I'd tried 'food' early, but I hadn't - that would have helped.
― woof, Thursday, 5 May 2022 17:35 (two years ago) link
am finding this really tough. about 200 down and still nothing
― koogs, Thursday, 5 May 2022 18:10 (two years ago) link
Take a break, maybe have some friends over for a quick bite, then come back to it.
― Human-shaped trash bag (Leee), Thursday, 5 May 2022 20:38 (two years ago) link
quality article today, appreciated the "both sides" approach to the topic
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Thursday, 5 May 2022 21:40 (two years ago) link
29 ??????????? 305 27.21%
none of my usual starts got me anything numbers, letters, continents, colours, countries. the spider sex thing was the first foothold and that was a bit of a red herring
― koogs, Thursday, 5 May 2022 22:55 (two years ago) link
seems, now I've read all the hidden text, i wasn't the only one, just the slowest
― koogs, Thursday, 5 May 2022 22:57 (two years ago) link
94 guesses / 36.17%
This was a fun one
I had "animal" and "food" and after trying "carnivore", "herbivore" and "omnivore" which all had 0 results, I just went with the obvious alternative
― silverfish, Thursday, 5 May 2022 23:09 (two years ago) link
31 guesses, had species early on, spent a lot of time thinking rather than guessing. I was also was fixated on sex but that gave me the clue, something done by the male to the female 'before, during or after copulation' made me think of spiders.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Friday, 6 May 2022 12:49 (two years ago) link
If Redactle had it's own thread, every post would look like this.
― Jaq, Friday, 6 May 2022 16:12 (two years ago) link
i do hate how hard it is to do hidden test on a phone. the square brackets aren't even on the alt page of the google keyboard but on the alt-alt-page
anyway, today, had narrowed it down by guess 20, now have to conjure the exact word out of my head and i'm not sure it's in there.
― koogs, Friday, 6 May 2022 17:12 (two years ago) link
#30 in 17 @ 64.71% - island as first guess, with Sea, English, Spanish, America main waypoints getting me there. Annoyingly, I miscounted the letters before the first 'sea' so kept thinking it wasn't Caribbean despite all the things pointing that way (tho I might have expected more hits from my Bahamas, Bermuda, Jamaica guesses). Still have a bad habit of colouring in - like I can see island ***** is going to be island chain so there's no need for me to enter 'chain' yet I cannot resist after 3 or 4 nothing guesses.
― woof, Friday, 6 May 2022 17:18 (two years ago) link
Redactle #30 in 8 with 87.50% accuracy
Got island in 2, then Antigua and Jamaica shortly after but for a minute I thought I couldn't think of any more seven-letter island countries in the Caribbean. A relief not to have fucked it up after a flying start
― Alba, Friday, 6 May 2022 17:18 (two years ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#30) in 143 guesses with an accuracy of 67.13%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/
Started strong but French colonization was my entry but I didn't think of Grenada and France
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 6 May 2022 18:02 (two years ago) link
#30 71 / 63%
I think I'm ok with higher guess counts as I do like to fill out sentences so that I can glean context and info from them. Getting to the right answer is already hard enough that I don't feel the need to min/max this game as I would with Wordle.
― Human-shaped trash bag (Leee), Friday, 6 May 2022 18:06 (two years ago) link
Redactle #30 in 41 guesses with an accuracy of 63.41%
I should have had this in about 25. I had island and west indies. I threw a bunch of island names randomly instead of before trying "French" which narrowed it down a bit
― silverfish, Friday, 6 May 2022 18:11 (two years ago) link
I know the point of redactle is trying to get it in the least amount of guesses, but I play it more like I need to get the answer as quick as possible, which means rapidly typing a lot of related words sometimes just in case they get hits.
― silverfish, Friday, 6 May 2022 18:16 (two years ago) link
15 guesses and I know what it is but I don't know what it is.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Friday, 6 May 2022 18:19 (two years ago) link
same, at about 30 guesses then looked at the list of 70 books for the jubilee knowing there were commonwealth authors on there and sure enough... wasn't something i'd've got
― koogs, Friday, 6 May 2022 21:38 (two years ago) link
19 which is a lot better than I've been doing recently
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Friday, 6 May 2022 21:43 (two years ago) link
Redactle #30 in all of 350 guesses with an accuracy of 65.43%couldn’t for the life of me think of another Caribbean island with a cricket tradition besides… Trinidad and… Tobago. filled a lot more blanks than ever before, which must count for something
― middot • is • my • middle • name (breastcrawl), Friday, 6 May 2022 22:16 (two years ago) link
bit of a slog today (205 guesses)...book=1 and author=0 early on sent me down other paths
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Saturday, 7 May 2022 16:56 (two years ago) link
#31You solved it in 247 guessesYour accuracy was 23.08%
abyssmal. last 50 of those were getting the second word
― koogs, Saturday, 7 May 2022 17:48 (two years ago) link
#30 i got barbados, bermuda, barbuda even. it wasn't those
#31 see seandalai's hidden text. so many 0s.
― koogs, Saturday, 7 May 2022 17:52 (two years ago) link
#30 the crib sheet i mentioned was the jubilee reading list of 70 novels from around the commonwealth, one of those was from the island in question
― koogs, Saturday, 7 May 2022 17:53 (two years ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#31) in 157 guesses with an accuracy of 33.12%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/
― Star Trek: Strange New Wordles (Leee), Saturday, 7 May 2022 17:59 (two years ago) link
I did ok today (87 guesses), but the actual article is kind of shoddy
― rob, Saturday, 7 May 2022 18:08 (two years ago) link
Of all things, Aristotle put me on the right track.
― Star Trek: Strange New Wordles (Leee), Saturday, 7 May 2022 18:28 (two years ago) link
So bad at redactle.
― Jeff, Saturday, 7 May 2022 18:29 (two years ago) link
101 / 41.58%, yeah very odd article. Tried guesses about writing early on with few hits so it was only out of a lack of any other ideas that I tried 'prose' and 'poetry', then I thought it was going to be something super obscure in that area so it was only a stab in the dark when I guessed the first word, but then I got the second straight away.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Saturday, 7 May 2022 18:39 (two years ago) link
Redactle #31 in 167 with just 29.34% accuracy. Scratching around all over the place.
― Alba, Saturday, 7 May 2022 21:56 (two years ago) link
#31 in 77 absolute crawl - nothing useful till 'poetry' at 60 but relatively fast after that. Agreed, a weird article
― woof, Sunday, 8 May 2022 11:34 (two years ago) link
#32 in 48 fine enough though I took some unwise linguistics and mythology side streets; turns out that "saints" doesn't count as a match for "saints'" which is a bit annoying but probably didn't make much difference in the end
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Sunday, 8 May 2022 16:44 (two years ago) link
still Wordling but there's not much to say about it at this point
ha. i actually beat someone
#32You solved it in 46 guessesYour accuracy was 60.87%
― koogs, Sunday, 8 May 2022 16:45 (two years ago) link
(we could do with a redactle thread given that wordle doesn't get much of a look on these days. although jaq has a point)
― koogs, Sunday, 8 May 2022 16:47 (two years ago) link
redactle in 55, really should've gotten it as soon as i had "is one of the four"
― ✖, Sunday, 8 May 2022 17:34 (two years ago) link
Got it in 7 today, best I’ve done by miles
― crisp, Sunday, 8 May 2022 18:08 (two years ago) link
Ah no I got Lagos in 8 a while back but everything else is like 50 plus (including ‘rope’ in just 178)
― crisp, Sunday, 8 May 2022 18:10 (two years ago) link
137, clueless till I finally guessed 'when' about ten guesses earlier.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Sunday, 8 May 2022 18:20 (two years ago) link
Redactle #32 in 3
― Alba, Sunday, 8 May 2022 18:39 (two years ago) link
America -> fall -> autumn. I thought - this is autumn on after the first go. Should have just gone for glory but thought I'd hedge my bets by first checking fall on the grounds it might be useful if autumn was wrong
― Alba, Sunday, 8 May 2022 18:42 (two years ago) link
37 guesses, 52% - hurray baseball
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 8 May 2022 18:46 (two years ago) link
would be interested to hear Alba's thought process - what was the clue?
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Sunday, 8 May 2022 21:04 (two years ago) link
The intro looked like “xxxxxx, also known as yyyy in” and that was backed up by the repeated xxxxxx (yyyy) in the bibliography. I immediately had four-letter words prom and camp going through my mind but didn’t get that what followed was “American English” as I was too set on it being a country or range of cultures. Despite that I took a punt on America being mentioned somewhere (as part of Latin America or South America) as it seemed like it was some phenomenon that was known in different parts of the world and I quite often throw America and American in there as early guesses. There was some sense of it being timed differently in different places (“on and around”) and the way that America came up just made me think harder about the four letter word and then fall/autumn hit me. Should really have gone straight to autumn then but went fall first in case it wasn’t autumn and fall was useful elsewhere.
― Alba, Sunday, 8 May 2022 21:44 (two years ago) link
I don't try to count letters on Redactle, I just guess words and when I get one right I guess more words in the same subject, and if I manage to do it by myself then that's the win for me.
― boxedjoy, Monday, 9 May 2022 08:19 (two years ago) link
#32 in 65 - I had a useful chunk of that first sentence by guess 9 - "something, also known as something in something something, is one of the four something somethings" but got lost in virtues, vices, humours, saints, feasts, churchy stuff (especially as that was getting me crumbs), forgetting a VERY OBVIOUS thing that there are four of. A small technical curiosity or annoyance - I've just noticed it didn't fill in saints' for my saints guess.
― woof, Monday, 9 May 2022 10:01 (two years ago) link
Nice work Alba btw!
― woof, Monday, 9 May 2022 10:02 (two years ago) link