______ the ____________: Redactle

I did the same as Mike T above, though considerably slower.

6 - I tried united and health along the way

(and Switzerland for fun)

the other day i was feeling a little annoyed with myself over how long these all seem to be taking me to solve and how i couldn’t figure out how so many of you were solving it in fewer than 10 guesses

then i got today’s in 4 lol

got it in 9. first two guesses were "world" and "organization" and then i tortured myself trying to figure out the middle word. capitalized "round" really threw me for a loop. eventually just started guessing topics that would've been relevant on a global scale around WWII.

speaking of "round" man i wish the dev would update the common word list. i have no idea why random words like that are sometimes included while the different tenses of "is" still aren't. but the dev has now been completely AWOL from socials for over a month now so i don't have much hope for that

ran off with all that sweet Redactle _______

The site has ads now(?) so he's doing *some* work on it, so yeah, the lack of QOL improvements is a little annoying.

Yeah I was originally thinking "not gonna whine too much because maybe he died or something" and then I saw he added ads lol

#42 in 17 - the round stuff distracted me into sport & tv for a bit but got there in the end

I don't mind some of the flakiness, like where the bad redaction gives you clues (dim flattering sense that you would definitely have cracked Enigma), but there's definitely weird stuff around ('hz' not hitting as Will M said upthread; I'm still a bit bothered by saints not hitting saints' but I can see how unredacting apostrophes could be awkward).

Right at the start I would have wanted plurals (or -s appended forms) for free; now, that feels like part of the game and I don't want it.

I do like how (in its limited way) Redactle supports different playing styles - some people count letters, some don't; some people stare at the board for 5 minutes before typing their first word, some people dive right in and feel their way around.

#42 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Organization with a 'z'

some people dive right in and feel their way around

Speaking of which: I solved today's Redactle (#43) in 321 guesses with an accuracy of 63.55%. I spent a hundred guesses trying to uncover a film career, but once I got to author, I still had a hard time -- no hits for genre/genres, not a modernist, etc. -- and at one point I started guessing common men's names in English, which, given the answer, LOL. I needed children (@319 with 23 hits) to finally get me there.

Solved this one in 11. figured from all the italics that it had to be a writer, guessed British, and his was one of the first short names I could think of.

123, 73% - got science fiction and fantasy writer pretty early but I only know Dahl from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

took my sweet time feeling and filling my way around and got it in 148 guesses with an accuracy of 81.76% (highest accuracy since Streep’s perfect 100)

Got there in 8. I spotted That Was The Week That Was buried in there, and thought this is a heck of an entry for Frank Muir or Peter Cook. I did try (half) the latter though!

#43
You solved it in 10 guesses
Your accuracy was 90.00%
Globally, 4294 players have solved today's Redactle so far

went for early glory with Marco...

United is a handy word, given that it matches States or Kingdom. both here...

all that time mike has spent watching Tales of the Unexpected has finally paid off...

20, 85% - I spotted that was the week that was but that was the clue that was no help; guessing 'world' gave me (danny) the (champion) of the world.

#43 in 23 guesses with an accuracy of 91.30%

my first time counting letters, which definitely was the key here

took my sweet time feeling and filling my way around and got it in 148 guesses with an accuracy of 81.76% (highest accuracy since Streep’s perfect 100)

― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Thursday, May 19, 2022 10:59 AM (one hour ago)

similar -- 156 guesses, 87% accuracy

2!

Nice one!

I did it in 9. Novelist > British > poet > war > novel > e > India > Roald > Dahl

I saw what looked like That Was The Week That Was too but that didn't help me, sadly

got it in 53 took me way too long to remember children's literature is a thing. however i am proud that i could see "He served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War" without guessing anything, which makes me feel very smart. (though i did guess "royal" to be sure)

it was the list along the lines of "The _____, The _____ and _____ and the _____ _____" that tipped me off

oh nice seandalai - chaotic 13 here - spotted 'That was the week that was' in there & took an initial punt on Peter Cook (Probably not US-famous enough to be a sensible guess?), then ground it out. Lucky even on 13 tbh - I was puzzling out '_____-_____ writer' in the definition and thought 'young-adult???' which pointed me to the answer. It was 'short-story writer', of course.

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haha those lists were just making my smart brain tell my dumb brain 'no, still not CS Lewis'

2, 100%

In 3! Wasted one on England! For some reason my mind went Ethelred the Unready … Alexander the Great … Ming the Merciless … Conan the Barbarian err, now I’m stuck let’s stick something in

#43 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl

#44
You solved it in 2 guesses
Your accuracy was 100.00%
Globally, 1450 players have solved today's Redactle so far

1450 solvers in the 20 minutes it's been live...

my first through was Suleiman the Magnificent but I actually counted letters for once

3 - went with Richard at first.

I solved today's Redactle (#44) in 9 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%.

still getting into this game, but pleased with this result

2, disappointed it wasn't fungus the bogeyman

solved #44 in 43 (74.42%)

18 / 77%

Happy any time I get under a hundred guesses, counting the letters probably could've saved me a couple wasted guesses but otherwise a lot easier (for me) today.

21 guesses, 100% accuracy -- Probably the most focused on getting it in the fewest number of guesses than in the past ... my first guess was "great" and it only returned 3 words, so I assumed it was a British person and not a Russian one. then I guessed "war" and it only returned 2 ... then I went with "his" and "he" to determine the gender of the person, and if in fact, it was a person and not a thing or place. Though, at that point, I could have wracked my brain for historical British rulers that didn't go to "war" and only engaged in "battle" (25 results)... I figured I would just guess common names of British royalty ... William, Henry, Edward

4

Wasted one on England!

went with Richard at first.

ah nuts :(

any mod around?

In 2.

English-centric for a change. but these aren't fun. prefer it when it takes about 100.

#44 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Conqueror

#45
You solved it in 3 guesses
Your accuracy was 100.00%
Globally, 755 players have solved today's Redactle so far

wasted one on a word that was obvious

I solved today's Redactle (#45) in 35 guesses with an accuracy of 60.00%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

Back to back days under 100, I think this thread has made me a little more circumspect about filling out some sentences, as well as having a better feel for when the answer is more generalized.

Theory at 2 led me to evolution and biological and I spent several guesses exploring scientific concepts before I entered patent, child, inheritance, and legal.

all the -in-??? stuff was obviously -in-law. then marriage which was in the first paragraph. then the answer

18, 100%