______ the ____________: Redactle

Any fool know that Wikipedia entry for pot noodles is singular

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_Noodle

i eventually got sport but then ball too which took me in directions that were not relevant. wasted many on countries and compass points.

is everyone getting <=45% silica and produce for free?

15, with that assist.

start of the second para was the key, should have spotted it more quickly.

#57 140 / 42.86%

A proposal for terminology:
- Golfers: players who try to get the answer in as few guesses as possible
- Explorers (or sightseers?): players who like to fill in whole sentences

I'm a golfer who was getting warned for slow play so has decided to swing and hope a bit more.

But today: hole in one!

And yes huge unredacted hint in the middle but it was what looked like Year Without A Summer which gave it away.

oh I saw that but couldn't work it out.

billy idol kept getting in the way.

#56 was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_skating

#57 in 17 (58%)

81, 38% went too science-y for a bit, I don't think geology hit on this one did it? I keep trying the broadest science terms hoping that just once a chemical process clue will actually have "chemistry" in the text.

lol yeah I need to stop trying broadly generic terms that inevitably aren't in the text despite being "right" e.g., science or mathematics

27. Mediocre.

45, could have been worse.

shut it! xp

21 I thought it was something about space for a bit

Now they tell me

https://i.imgur.com/9t8y6FX.png

I solved today's Redactle (#57) in 24 guesses with an accuracy of 62.50%.

there was a record label about 20 years ago called simple machines and each release was named after one of those 6 things. that helped me.

http://simplemachines.net/machines.html

oh, Jenny toomey

14 today - I am not a golfer but estimate par could be around 6?

#57 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano

am slowly getting together a (crude) books version, currently wondering what to do with apostrophes... how does redactle handle 'don't' for instance, is it ##### or ###'#?

I solved today's Redactle (#58) in 17 guesses with an accuracy of 70.59%.

Nice, sean!

#58 in 2. Wasted one go on Africa, really – should have just ploughed in

8. I'm reluctant to letter count, but it is kind of silly not to sometimes

I solved today's Redactle (#58) in 13 guesses with an accuracy of 61.54%.

You solved it in 20 guesses
Your accuracy was 65.00%
Globally, 5406 players have solved today's Redactle so far

knew is was africa and west but typed those in anyway. guessed nigeria next despite all the 'bordered by' stuff which ruled that out

Alba, how did you know it was an African country just by looking at it?

5, 100% - I counted this time.

Did this one in 9. The Arabic As- prefix told me it was a word starting with an S, but none of the Arabic-speaking countries matched the info, so I thought it might be a province or region or something. I thought of the country in question as well, but too swiftly discarded it as non-Arabic speaking at first without checking against the available info, or I would have defo gotten it in 1, I swear. This was an open goal and I blew it!

Anagram - the pattern looked like “ is a country in (east/west) (continent)”. People say eastern/western Europe rather than east/west and there aren’t any other six-letter continents. Plus the list in brackets of alternative names suggested a lot of local languages and the “As-“ also didn’t look like a European language.

also one of the bordering countries was hyphenated and looked like a match for guinea-bissau. unfortunately my knowledge of the subject at hand isn't that great, had a few wrong guesses, took a couple to confirm my suspicions. then got an assist from my wife for a cheaty 8.

Today in 1.

Counting letters in the languages in brackets helped here too.

am slowly getting together a (crude) books version

I had this idea, would like to see it done!

I've got it tokenizing the source and displaying it as redacted text, based on 3 lists of words (which I've just realised could be two - the list with markup in it and the one with the given words could be the same list). will work on input today.

#58 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal

(ledge, i have sent you ilx mail)

I solved today's Redactle (#59) in 46 guesses with an accuracy of 69.57%.

I'm annoyed at myself because I got Frankenstein at 17 following modern which revealed LONG WORD, or the Modern LONG WORD, but kept thinking it was a place instead of a person. I guess even though I'm an explorer, I still have a bit of golfer in me!

16 today with my usual golfsploration - I try to think things through a bit but I also enjoy just throwing stuff out there and seeing what happens, the thrill of an unexpected bite is half the fun

57, 84.21%

'English poet and ?' - wasted guesses on critic and essayist - early but it took a bit to work out era

45 today. Went barking up the wrong tree thinking it was someone ancient after getting Greek early on

my thought process: after I got "poet", the very beginning ██████ ██████ █████, ███ █████ █████ before the birth/death dates made me think of some kind of nobility so I had a go at "Lord" and boom

hope this works

# Guess Hits
16 byron 246
15 lord 39
14 spring 1
13 poet 11
12 africa 0
11 french 3
10 russian 0
9 book 6
8 music 1
7 mime 0
6 german 0
5 america 1
4 king 3
3 author 2
2 actor 0
1 broadway 0

in 28 for me

This one was pretty quick: saw the (_____:) and tried French, Latin, then Greek. Then Greece, then ancient, which yielded nothing, then modern, which gave me Frankenstein, and that + Greece got me to Byron. Still took me 20 guesses because I threw some random words in there at first instead of thinking it out.

Solved it in 9, guessed "John" as the first name, thought it might be some kind of ruler and tried "king" and then "lord," my feeling around in the dark strategy worked pretty well.

Got there in 7; first guess was poet, figured it was full name, honorific/noble title but got slightly diverted by the dual language transliteration thing - thought it might be Persian or Chinese in which case I would have been clueless. But, duh, nationality started with a vowel so shouldn't have got distracted.

Got it in two! First thoughts were foreign royalty but scrolling through it became clear they were probably a writer, went back to the top and 'poet' looked likely, possibly 'english', and then it just came to me. To be clear this flash of inspiration came after 'reading' the thing for probably half an hour all told.

(ledge, i have sent you ilx mail)

thanks, will take a look when I get on actual computer, probably on monday!

on 96 guesses and struggling due to lack of domain knowledge. confused at the start of the first paragraph. will sleep on it.

(book version is pretty much working as long as you don't want to win because i've not written that part yet. might put a link up tomorrow. unlike(?) redactle i do need to prepare the game files (typically extracting one chapter per book), but am trying to make that as easy as possible, 2 minutes each kind of job. i have about 2 months worth downloaded but needing editing.)

???? ????? "poet and ????". but not iain banks, ezra pound, john keats or pamm ayres... absolutely no idea of time period...

The ???? after 'and poet' totally threw me. Maybe doing it on a phone yesterday didn't help but I never got the sense of that first par that might have led me in the direction of the aristocracy