______ the ____________: Redactle

New thread for Redactle so that Wordle lovers can go about their day without facing a wall of [show hidden text].

I won't paste in discussion from the Wordle thread. It's just people being furious at themselves behind spoiler tags.

260 guesses!

108 first time. Not sure this will replace Semantle for me.

(removes bookmark from wordle thread...)

I kinda like this, I'm no good at Semantle but I give up quickly, this feels like I'm seeing at least some progress in my guesses.

Yeah it I think it might be my favourite of all the time wastles, feels like more of a comprehensive brain workout than semantle. Or maybe it just hasn't lost its novelty value yet.

yeah, I think either the novelty will fade or I'll build up enough anxiety about getting it quickly that it will become painfully tense and I will quit. But for now it's a really entertaining challenge every day.

33 ?????? 83 57.83%

um...

really not sure why you get global stats some times and not others.

#33 in 46 @ 58.70% insect by 26, but wasn't really properly on it till I added the plural at 35. Annoying run of cricket/grasshopper/locust at 41-3 (after seeing title "The x and the ant"), where my brain should have been trying to get the thing like that with 6 letters… but they aren't very present in my UK English taxonomy of the world. Also, I think I head for myth/legend/folklore too early & get a bit lost there.

I think it can just take ages for stats to load? I didn't have them and just looked again and there they are.

I kinda like this, I'm no good at Semantle but I give up quickly, this feels like I'm seeing at least some progress in my guesses.

Same.

@koogs I think it might be because you solved it too quickly? The global averages change over the day, and you can keep refreshing the page to see them change (usually up).

Anyway, #33 90 / 49%.

117 in and I don't know any other kinds of insects :(

31 despite forgetting my usual guess of species. Guessing year and life gave me '__- year life _____' - obviously 'cycle', thx old bbc nature documentaries.

> they aren't very present in my UK English taxonomy of the world. i felt this as well. and i think i threw away the same three things you did, and a bunch of others, because of it

163, 80% accuracy - knew it was an insect early on but a side bit of fun is seeing how many words I can fill in rather than just going for low score.

A gruelling 375, but Kevin gave me the final guess. It’s one of his strongest fields of knowledge. Also learned how a certain long standing ILXor got their name.

#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.

xp
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.

btw, my clue that this was about relationships came when I went from the very productive “people” to “individual(s), and it was clear the word before it in the opening sentence had to be “two”

I solved Redactle Unlimited #338 in 68 guesses with an accuracy of 55.88% and a time of 00:19:48.

got “house” after about 30 guesses, so maybe I should have gotten it earlier, I don’t know

I solved Redactle Unlimited #338 in 20 guesses with an accuracy of 70% and a time of 00:15:22.

law > rights > property, in short.

I solved Redactle Unlimited #339 in 15 guesses with an accuracy of 80% and a time of 00:06:04. Play at https://redactle-unlimited.com/

I got new right away, but I rather naively hoped that it was a US state despite evidence to the contrary. Still, I'm kind of satisfied how quickly I course-corrected.

I solved Redactle Unlimited #339 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100% and a time of 00:06:33.

I figured it was the world's second (or fourth) largest island, size was obvious, but that didn't help much. only ruminating on likely three letter words got me there. (I couldn't even have sworn the answer was an island!)

I solved Redactle Unlimited #339 in 21 guesses with an accuracy of 76.19% and a time of 00:11:04.

thought of island too late, and then thought of ‘New Foundland’ first - which isn’t even the right orthography (and only the world's 16th-largest island apparently)

I solved Redactle Unlimited #340 in 12 guesses with an accuracy of 75% and a time of 00:04:37.

fairly speculatively guessed earth which gave enough of an astronomy vibe to get it.

I solved Redactle Unlimited #341 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100% and a time of 00:09:24.

disclaimer: the topics of these Redactle puzzles are randomly selected on a daily basis

I solved Redactle Unlimited #341 in 12 guesses with an accuracy of 91.67% and a time of 00:19:42.

yeah I was kicking myself, especially after my 4th guess was film.

are you kiddin me

I solved Redactle Unlimited #342 in 202 guesses with an accuracy of 72.28% and a time of 00:52:07.

this was about finding the right country/ies - in 46 and 54 respectively, and then thinking of P********* masculine first names. for some reason, the right one came up late in the game for me

I solved Redactle Unlimited #342 in 142 guesses with an accuracy of 58.45% and a time of 01:33:43.

i couldn't get the continent let alone country, thought the date might be much later due to the time of birth being specified. guessed peter after a while, took another while to get the right version.

had no idea about this phase of PT/BR history whatsoever btw

I solved Redactle Unlimited #342 in 75 guesses with an accuracy of 56% and a time of 00:05:43. Play at https://redactle-unlimited.com/

Like ledge, I spent a lot of fruitless time in Europe until I finally tried Portugal, and since medieval didn't turn up, that all led pretty quickly to Brazil. But getting dude's name was a lucky guess, because I've watched YTs on this era but the first name barely lodged itself in my brain.

I solved Redactle Unlimited #343 in 70 guesses with an accuracy of 61.43% and a time of 00:16:51.

no idea where this was headed until I got from
“tissue” to “paper” to “ink” (!?!) to “black” to “colour”

I solved Redactle Unlimited #343 in 35 guesses with an accuracy of 71.43% and a time of 00:28:41.

also no idea until I thought, if it's not any kind of place or geographical feature what could it lie on - a spectrum?

I solved Redactle Unlimited #343 in 62 guesses with an accuracy of 69.35% and a time of 00:03:45. Play at https://redactle-unlimited.com/

I kept thinking it was something alive, until I hit on precious, stone, and gem, all of which only gave 1 hit each, but that prompted me to think about jade, which pretty quickly led me to colors.

I solved Redactle Unlimited #344 in 45 guesses with an accuracy of 46.67% and a time of 00:02:37. Play at https://redactle-unlimited.com/

Probably should've gotten this in 1!

I solved Redactle Unlimited #344 in 6 guesses with an accuracy of 66.67% and a time of 00:04:41.

same, it definitely crossed my mind but I thought it was more specific.

I solved Redactle Unlimited #344 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100% and a time of 00:00:58. Play at https://redactle-unlimited.com/

OH FINALLY:
I solved Redactle Unlimited #344 in 1 guesses with an accuracy of 100% and a time of 00:00:13.

I solved Redactle Unlimited #345 in 418 guesses with an accuracy of 48.8% and a time of 00:29:32. Hints used: 1 Play at https://redactle-unlimited.com/

Pretty frustrating one, and the one hint I used turned out to be pretty paltry. Even after getting psychology, I needed happy and anger to get me on the right track.

I solved Redactle Unlimited #345 in 218 guesses with an accuracy of 63.76% and a time of 01:18:21.

I basically cheated - had to use a thesaurus as I couldn't think of a symptom for personality.

I solved Redactle Unlimited #346 in 12 guesses with an accuracy of 75% and a time of 00:06:54.

so proud of myself for getting this one so quickly with zero knowledge about this kind of stuff. got the second word in 8, the first word just came up in my brain, didn’t even know it was a real thing, but I guess I must have picked it up somewhere

blew it. second word in two then had to cheat. then kicked myself.

348 guesses but I learned a lot

I solved Redactle Unlimited #348 in 145 guesses with an accuracy of 64.14% and a time of 00:48:05.

took ages until the university penny dropped. the oldest, eh? give me some time to #guess #the correct medieval #city then!

failed again! got german university in 9 (think I've been burned twice before not getting that particular 10 letter word) but I was never gonna get the first word. also failed yesterday - topology and 'group' the closest I got after 100 odd guesses.

Yeah I'm on a 3-day Had To Cheat streak. :\

I solved Redactle Unlimited #349 in 135 guesses with an accuracy of 82.22% and a time of 00:08:28. Play at https://redactle-unlimited.com/

Broke the streak, got this one honestly. I went down the "domesticated" rabbit hole which was a wild goose chase, but once I stopped chasing my own tail, I remembered that the correct word had a long history in English (though I'd forgotten the details) and that was what got me to the answer.

I solved Redactle Unlimited #349 in 40 guesses with an accuracy of 80% and a time of 00:29:32.

I solved Redactle Unlimited #349 in 16 guesses with an accuracy of 75% and a time of 00:16:20.

got a bit worried when i couldn't even nail it down to a kingdom at first.

I solved Redactle Unlimited #350 in 11 guesses with an accuracy of 81.82% and a time of 00:04:17.

actually had “Carthago” (as it’s known in Dutch) in 5 and got three hits for it, so then the question became: how is it known in English?

I solved Redactle Unlimited #350 in 50 guesses with an accuracy of 82% and a time of 00:03:50. Play at https://redactle-unlimited.com/

I solved Redactle Unlimited #350 in 8 guesses with an accuracy of 62.5% and a time of 00:19:27.

that first word was annoying.

I solved Redactle Unlimited #351 in 12 guesses with an accuracy of 91.67% and a time of 00:04:18.

I solved Redactle Unlimited #351 in 147 guesses with an accuracy of 61.9% and a time of 00:08:46. Play at https://redactle-unlimited.com/

Definitely could've shaved a healthy number of guesses as I had evolution @ 44.

I solved Redactle Unlimited #352 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100% and a time of 00:01:33.

big, big clue somewhere down the text. had no idea it would be the actual solution tho - hadn’t even looked into that yet

have yet to finish (hopefully) yesterday’s game

I solved Redactle Unlimited #352 in 1 guesses with an accuracy of 100% and a time of 00:00:45. Play at https://redactle-unlimited.com/

For me the big hint was halfway down the opening paragraph. I also wasn't convinced that my guess was going to be the answer.

I solved Redactle Unlimited #352 in 1 guesses with an accuracy of 100% and a time of 00:06:52.

I saw the hint but took a while to realise it might be more than just that.

lol think we’re talking about the same hint, it’s just that I had apparently missed it in the first paragraph

I solved Redactle Unlimited #351 in 207 guesses with an accuracy of 72.46% and a time of 00:51:41.

I had “adapt” at 20 or something. don’t know what I was thinking

I solved Redactle Unlimited #352 in 1 guesses with an accuracy of 100% and a time of 00:00:50.
My second ever hole-in-one.
the capitalised Down in the first paragraph was the giveaway.

21 guesses today!

I solved Redactle Unlimited #353 in 57 guesses with an accuracy of 64.91% and a time of 00:05:55. Play at https://redactle-unlimited.com/

never heard of this thing, and I feel pretty fortunate to have gotten this without hints or cheating.

I solved Redactle Unlimited #353 in 7 guesses with an accuracy of 71.43% and a time of 00:07:55.

despite only one hit for physics and none for force I persisted with energy, that was enough.

I solved Redactle Unlimited #354 in 18 guesses with an accuracy of 100% and a time of 00:13:05.

I solved Redactle Unlimited #354 in 174 guesses with an accuracy of 67.82% and a time of 00:22:13. Play at https://redactle-unlimited.com/

I'm a bad comrade. I got realism on a lark because the article was looking like a style or genre, figured it was widespread in the Soviet Union, but didn't think to try the s-word even after trying communist, Marxist, etc.

I solved Redactle Unlimited #354 in 15 guesses with an accuracy of 86.67% and a time of 00:07:39.