______ the ____________: Redactle

#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

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!

What else should it be?
All topology

I solved Redactle #757 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:00:25.

lucky-ish guess-ish

I solved Redactle #758 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:06:24.

clear what the first word had to be, as for the other one: there was a big clue somewhere in there

I solved Redactle #758 in 12 guesses with an accuracy of 75.0% and a time of 00:07:37.

missed the clue

I solved Redactle #758 in 12 guesses with an accuracy of 75.0% and a time of 00:07:37.

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yesterday’s puzzle:

I solved Redactle #759 in 1000 guesses with an accuracy of 57.4% and a time of 03:59:28. Hints used: 3

cheated to get the answer, thought I would perhaps recognize the name, but not really. a very interesting leisurely stroll through pre-islamic middle eastern history. A+ experience

crikey.

I solved Redactle #760 in 26 guesses with an accuracy of 69.2% and a time of 00:13:00.

I solved Redactle #760 in 8 guesses with an accuracy of 87.5% and a time of 00:04:36.

holy cow! a scientific subject and i got it within 10 guesses!

I solved Redactle #763 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:03:48.

I solved Redactle #763 in 7 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:12:31.

was gonna say: open for 2

I solved Redactle #764 in 6 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:08:13.

another one that retroactively should have been a hole-in-one with the massive clue in there

I solved Redactle #764 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:17:58.

far too long.

I solved Redactle #771 in 6 guesses with an accuracy of 50.0% and a time of 00:05:34.

lol. lmao.

I solved Redactle #771 in 114 guesses with an accuracy of 58.8% and a time of 00:22:17.

just dickin’ around

I solved Redactle #776 in 16 guesses with an accuracy of 87.5% and a time of 00:19:52. Hints used: 1

thought I wouldn’t get the main word, so found a clue and did an outside search. should have given my brain some more breathing space tho, but I actually knew that name and some of my first guesses were very close

I solved Redactle #776 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:08:55.

figured out the country but did not know the name and would never have got it without cheating. which I did.

I solved Redactle #777 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:05:35.

it’s that time again