Defend The Indefensible: Wordle

quality article today, appreciated the "both sides" approach to the topic

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

seems, now I've read all the hidden text, i wasn't the only one, just the slowest

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

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.

If Redactle had it's own thread, every post would look like this.

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.

#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.

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

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

#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.

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

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.

15 guesses and I know what it is but I don't know what it is.

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

19 which is a lot better than I've been doing recently

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

bit of a slog today (205 guesses)...book=1 and author=0 early on sent me down other paths

#31
You solved it in 247 guesses
Your accuracy was 23.08%

abyssmal. last 50 of those were getting the second word

#30 i got barbados, bermuda, barbuda even. it wasn't those

#31 see seandalai's hidden text. so many 0s.

#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

I solved today's Redactle (#31) in 157 guesses with an accuracy of 33.12%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

I did ok today (87 guesses), but the actual article is kind of shoddy

Of all things, Aristotle put me on the right track.

So bad at redactle.

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.

Redactle #31 in 167 with just 29.34% accuracy. Scratching around all over the place.

#31 in 77 absolute crawl - nothing useful till 'poetry' at 60 but relatively fast after that. Agreed, a weird article

#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

still Wordling but there's not much to say about it at this point

ha. i actually beat someone

#32
You solved it in 46 guesses
Your accuracy was 60.87%

(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)

redactle in 55, really should've gotten it as soon as i had "is one of the four"

Got it in 7 today, best I’ve done by miles

Ah no I got Lagos in 8 a while back but everything else is like 50 plus (including ‘rope’ in just 178)

137, clueless till I finally guessed 'when' about ten guesses earlier.

Redactle #32 in 3

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

37 guesses, 52% - hurray baseball

would be interested to hear Alba's thought process - what was the clue?

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.

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.

#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.

Nice work Alba btw!

Started a new thread -
______ the ____________: Redactle

Weird that my two sisters got FETUS as their word today while my brother and I got SHINE as our word. WTF is NYT doing?

^ Sorry, that’s an actual Wordle comment

that happens whenever there's a word NYT removed from the master list (like fetus, unsurprisingly)

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/may/09/new-york-times-drops-fetus-as-an-answer-to-wordle

still mad about the time Quordle used "AORTA"