______ the ____________: Redactle

#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.

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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

I solved Redactle #952 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:08:56.

ww2 in the opening para, probably a weapon...

#953: never heard of em

interesting though!

I solved Redactle #954 in 19 guesses with an accuracy of 57.9% and a time of 00:09:56.

obvious in retrospect, I mean had “water” as my first guess

I solved Redactle #954 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:00:30.

saw (roll)-on (roll)-off, went on many of those on trips to france as a kid.

I solved Redactle #955 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:00:30.

the easiest working puzzle in showbusiness

I solved Redactle #955 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:02:36.

ask Sabrina Carpenter, nicely

I solved Redactle #956 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:05:49.

from the godfather of cool to the godfather of nerds

yesterday’s:

I solved Redactle #957 in 20 guesses with an accuracy of 50.0% and a time of 00:14:13.

got the third and second word in two guesses, and waited too long too try the first word - not that I have a clue about the subject

as for the day before that:

I solved Redactle #956 in 183 guesses with an accuracy of 53.0% and a time of 00:37:21. Hints used: 3

had to cheat , never heard of the guy

I solved Redactle #959 in 4 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:16:47.

what could be more logical?

I solved Redactle #963 in 119 guesses with an accuracy of 61.3% and a time of 00:30:56.

hey good lookin’…

I solved Redactle #963 in 16 guesses with an accuracy of 81.3% and a time of 00:07:24.

could've given me 'french' from 'france'.

I solved Redactle #964 in 14 guesses with an accuracy of 42.9% and a time of 00:02:54.

’Clermont-Ferrand’ is a city, dear!

I solved Redactle #964 in 4 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:04:57.

A ___ at the ______-_______ by _____ and the behind-the-______ ... behind the scenes, french theatre, folie bergere

I solved Redactle #968 in 12 guesses with an accuracy of 66.7% and a time of 00:06:55.

I solved Redactle #968 in 27 guesses with an accuracy of 70.4% and a time of 00:28:41

I solved Redactle #969 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:02:26.

I solved Redactle #969 in 277 guesses with an accuracy of 54.2% and a time of 00:53:20.

it was obviously all in that book title, I thought it looked very modern and it didn’t ring any bells. “feminist” got me hits, and I desperately tried to pinpoint her in the 20th century, with totally scattershot results. it wasn’t until I threw “gothic” at the wall, because it would fit as descriptor for the novel in the opening paragraph, that I saw the wrongness of my ways - and then for the life of me I couldn’t think of her surname. only when I woke up this morning it was right there. monstrous.

I solved Redactle #977 in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:01:07.

trying to lure me back in eh?

I would’ve got it in 3 but entered organisation instead of organization.

I solved Redactle #977 in 4 guesses with an accuracy of 75.0% and a time of 00:12:53.

embarrassingly slow

I solved Redactle #981 in 4 guesses with an accuracy of 75.0% and a time of 00:02:06.

I solved Redactle #981 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:03:44.

wasn't expecting my first guess to be the first word.

well- was your guess informed by your.. -being?

indeed

I solved Redactle #983 in 37 guesses with an accuracy of 70.3% and a time of 00:11:20.

fun one, “water” as a successful first guess should perhaps got me there earlier, but there’s many directions you can go with that

I solved Redactle #983 in 16 guesses with an accuracy of 37.5% and a time of 00:11:49.

I passed I mean guessed water too. First para written by the typical Wikipedian alien robot.

I solved Redactle #985 in 35 guesses with an accuracy of 42.9% and a time of 00:18:22.

wasn’t in the mood to try and crack this, so I just threw shit at the wall to see what stuck. only **** in the world to have a Boney M song named after it besides Babylon!

I solved Redactle #984 in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 66.7% and a time of 00:00:51.

damn.

I solved Redactle #985 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:02:39.

blast.

I might stop playing this so obsessively in two weeks.

I solved Redactle #994 in 141 guesses with an accuracy of 66.7% and a time of 00:37:39.

doing this with one half of my brain

I solved Redactle #994 in 18 guesses with an accuracy of 55.6% and a time of 00:03:54

given my first guess was hurling you'd think the right answer might have come to me sooner.

I solved Redactle #997 in 57 guesses with an accuracy of 47.4% and a time of 00:14:16.

I solved Redactle #1000 in 7 guesses with an accuracy of 85.7% and a time of 00:03:24.

Good time to take a break.

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