ugh this one's taking forever even though I basically know what it is, after getting yesterday's in 11.
― JoeStork, Thursday, 21 April 2022 22:06 (two years ago) link
same! I have the first word and I know what it is also known is, but I'm just going through everything that could be plausible for the second word and so far it's none of them
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Thursday, 21 April 2022 22:17 (two years ago) link
got it in the end - that was annoying
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Friday, 22 April 2022 00:44 (two years ago) link
got the redactle in 120. I feel like I should have gotten in about half as many. I knew broadly in what category of thing it was pretty early thanks to some lucky guesses, but somehow couldn't quite figure it out.
― silverfish, Friday, 22 April 2022 00:47 (two years ago) link
I eventually got Inclined with about five minutes to go but couldn’t summon up plane. 518 guesses what a joke.
― Alba, Friday, 22 April 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
I got it in 18 after a lucky early guess of 'normal' which was clearly used in a geometrical sense. And the previous one in 44, I guessed 'sun' after I heard it in a cartoon my kids were watching, which revealed something being 'in ____ sun', clearly 'full' and therefore plant related.
― ledge, Friday, 22 April 2022 17:05 (two years ago) link
today's Redactle features a reference to a landmark that's in the scheme I grew up in!
― boxedjoy, Friday, 22 April 2022 17:28 (two years ago) link
yeah, lots of maths in the inclined plane one and was helped slightly by the "An" before it in the first line which narrows it down to starting with a vowel. should've got it earlier tbh. the subscript confused me for a while. and the formatting glitches in the middle.
― koogs, Friday, 22 April 2022 17:31 (two years ago) link
that's odd in redactle #16, it says there are two instances of artist but only one shows up when you click on it
― koogs, Friday, 22 April 2022 17:36 (two years ago) link
Today's Octordle was certainly fun
― groovypanda, Friday, 22 April 2022 18:02 (two years ago) link
redactle #16 in 314, somehow took me until guess #309 to try music and got it pretty quickly after that.
― silverfish, Friday, 22 April 2022 18:03 (two years ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#16) in 117 guesses with an accuracy of 65.81%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/
I guess every dog has its day!
― Born Sleeepy (Nuxx) (Leee), Friday, 22 April 2022 18:06 (two years ago) link
Phew, back on trackRedactle #16 in 32 guesses with an accuracy of 87.50%.
― Alba, Friday, 22 April 2022 20:52 (two years ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#16) in 84 guesses with an accuracy of 73.81%.
― middot • is • my • middle • name (breastcrawl), Friday, 22 April 2022 21:26 (two years ago) link
4 hours in, 365 words, and nowhere
― koogs, Friday, 22 April 2022 21:27 (two years ago) link
at the stage where i'm just throwing around proper nouns
but never the right ones. gave up.
― koogs, Friday, 22 April 2022 21:51 (two years ago) link
Octordle got me today. Not trying Redactle for a while after not being able to get CARROT the other day for whatever reason and then having that Homer Simpson moment.
― Granny Takes a Tripos (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 April 2022 21:55 (two years ago) link
Or should I h-tag that in case of archive usage.
I solved today's Redactle (#16) in 117 guesses with an accuracy of 65.81%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/I guess every dog has its day!― Born Sleeepy (Nuxx) (Leee), Friday, 22 April 2022 18:06 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Born Sleeepy (Nuxx) (Leee), Friday, 22 April 2022 18:06 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Also 117! I was just throwing nouns at it for a while but it was satisfying when I finally got a bite.
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Friday, 22 April 2022 22:23 (two years ago) link
Today's Octordle was certainly fun certainly on theme with spinning 8s at the top
― that's not my post, Saturday, 23 April 2022 01:17 (two years ago) link
i couldn't see a way of getting at old redactles. would be interested in having a go at the first dozen that i missed, for practice
― koogs, Saturday, 23 April 2022 01:58 (two years ago) link
https://riddimstream-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/04/21101603/Rytikal-Twerk-single-scaled.jpg#onethread
― middot • is • my • middle • name (breastcrawl), Saturday, 23 April 2022 15:31 (two years ago) link
Redactle #17 in 33.
― Alba, Saturday, 23 April 2022 18:29 (two years ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#17) in 66 guesses with an accuracy of 45.45%.
― middot • is • my • middle • name (breastcrawl), Saturday, 23 April 2022 18:38 (two years ago) link
Surprised they are back on religion so quickly but once it seemed clear it was something with a long history I took a punt on church, helped by the Behind ——— ––– in the bibliography as Behind Closed Doors seemed an obvious fit and that seemed evocative of the Catholic church. Took me 21 goes to throw enough Catholic stuff at it to get cardinals then I was quite pleased the missing word wasn’t more esoteric than it turned out to be
― Alba, Saturday, 23 April 2022 18:59 (two years ago) link
Oh I see - each Redactle is randomly generated (from Wikipedia's 10,000 Vital Articles). I assumed the game’s creator was selecting it each day.
― Alba, Saturday, 23 April 2022 21:46 (two years ago) link
i wonder whether a similar thing using project Gutenberg's most popular books would be interesting? although looking at that list there are some things I'd never get, including 2 in tagalog inside the top 50
― koogs, Sunday, 24 April 2022 03:40 (two years ago) link
(redactle code talks to a server for session information and stats, ses.php / init.php. i think it's keeping your guesses there but i'll know more after 17:00 when it flips to the new one. wordle was a lot simpler and kept the state locally)
― koogs, Sunday, 24 April 2022 15:23 (two years ago) link
Makes sense if it's providing global stats. Meanwhile, I'm continuing to pull up the averages with a 385-guess effort today.
― Born Sleeepy (Nuxx) (Leee), Sunday, 24 April 2022 17:37 (two years ago) link
18 ???? 162 58.02%
― koogs, Sunday, 24 April 2022 18:17 (two years ago) link
I did it in 76. Good one.
― Alba, Sunday, 24 April 2022 19:48 (two years ago) link
i do have the tendency to fill in words that i really don't need to fill in. determined to know whether it's pope paul I or II or III or or IX or whatever when i don't really know the difference. ditto which century it is, fifth, sixth, seventh, who cares?
i did steer clear of typing 'bibliography' this time though.
― koogs, Sunday, 24 April 2022 20:26 (two years ago) link
Figuring out the relevant centuries has been helpful for me, but I also suck at this so. At least you can usually determine which millennium you're looking at based on the length of the word preceding "century"
― ✖, Sunday, 24 April 2022 20:33 (two years ago) link
Dammit, my boy is way better than me at Redactle. Carrot, Chopin, College of Cardinals, and even words that don’t begin with C, like today’s. Then again, I am way better than him at University Challenge. Complementary skills and all that.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 24 April 2022 21:12 (two years ago) link
got the redactle in 41 guesses today. A record for me I think.
― silverfish, Monday, 25 April 2022 01:02 (two years ago) link
got the wordle in two 3 days in a row now, my esp is activating
― ciderpress, Monday, 25 April 2022 15:27 (two years ago) link
worldle has repeated a country for the third day on the trot, I think they've run out.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Monday, 25 April 2022 15:47 (two years ago) link
there were 5 year's worth of words in the original wordle code, but i don't know what changed when they got bought out
― koogs, Monday, 25 April 2022 16:21 (two years ago) link
Aldo, did you pick up the update? It came up as a banner you could take or ignore recently.
― Jaq, Monday, 25 April 2022 16:49 (two years ago) link
today's redactle has me trying to remember lessons i took in 1986.
― koogs, Monday, 25 April 2022 16:53 (two years ago) link
I got Redactle 19, but again, 305 guesses. Averages are WAY below that -- I guess that's pulled down by very few people getting the actual answer? IDK.
― Carnegie Felon (Leee), Monday, 25 April 2022 16:56 (two years ago) link
there were 5 year's worth of words in the original wordle code, but i don't know what changed when they got bought out― koogs, Monday, April 25, 2022 11:21 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― koogs, Monday, April 25, 2022 11:21 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
It's basically the same code, except the NYT has removed a few words that it deemed either esoteric or offensive.
― jaymc, Monday, 25 April 2022 17:24 (two years ago) link
I tried taking the worldle update, maybe it didn't work?
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Monday, 25 April 2022 17:42 (two years ago) link
Worldle answer was Costa Rica for me today, I don't remember getting it before though I occasionally forget to play so I have missed a couple.
― silverfish, Monday, 25 April 2022 17:49 (two years ago) link
19 ??????????? ???????????? 25 68.00%
one word within 20, the other word a complete (educated) punt.
the formatting is broken but doesn't really matter.
― koogs, Monday, 25 April 2022 17:51 (two years ago) link
oh, aldo was talking about worldle, not wordle.
― koogs, Monday, 25 April 2022 17:52 (two years ago) link
Teamwork on today’s Redactle: I got the second word, then he got the first. I was similarly taken back to A-level lessons, over 40 years ago and long forgotten.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 25 April 2022 18:50 (two years ago) link
Yeah I definitely had that Worldle answer before, and both Monaco and Uruguay from the previous two days.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Monday, 25 April 2022 18:50 (two years ago) link
Yeah I saw Monaco for the second time in Worldle, but I haven't been playing long enough to have seen any other dupes.
― Carnegie Felon (Leee), Monday, 25 April 2022 18:55 (two years ago) link