Defend The Indefensible: Wordle

Gave up on today's Redactle at 96 because I didn't want to spend the next 19 hours in an inclined plane type situation. I did get distribution but after flexing my weak stats muscles for bit ran out of ideas for the first word

oh yeah, I definitely saw Costa Rica before. Maybe it's recycling, the source code link is on the ? page but I can't dig in to it until later.

I got today's Redactle in 12. Spotting what looked like a list of awards, I guessed "role" at 6, then "actor" and "actress". Then I saw repeated mentions of an italicised Out Of, which gave me "Africa" at 9. "Jane" (as in Fonda) was 10, "Streep" at 11.

Yup, stunned myself in 4. that italicised 'out of' in the intro set me off very early - basically just checked his or her.

Yesterday, tapped out at 41 had distribution, but had nothing after 'standard' beyond guessing plausible-sounding mathy things.

oh - a thought - if saying 'we got it super-quick' about today's is in itself a clue, pls mods delete post.

Redactle #20 in 22! I didn't notice Out of but the parenthetical in the beginning looked like a birth date, and a lucky guess of "she" led me down the right path for once.

19, I figured it might be out of Africa but decided to pussyfoot around first with actor (which didn't help), film, etc. also couldn't remember who was in it, and tried Jane (Fonda) and (Kathleen) Turner.

A Facebook friend got it in 3, again by spotting Out Of. So perhaps 2 is an attainable score today.

20 ????? ?????? 30 96.67%

had the gender and occupation wrong for the first 80%. 'eat' was my one 0 word

more wasted guesses on Here We Go Again when the ????? ???! had made that obvious

yeah 2 would have been possible if you squinted long enough at the awards section at the end, I got it in 7 but didn't really learn anything from my first couple of guesses

I spotted “Out of” but sexistly my mind went to Robert Redford so Robert was my first guess. Then I wasted a couple of goes with his and her. “Into the” was also there as a title but I couldn’t get “Into the Wild” out of my head. Woods!

you can drag your mouse over the rectangles and count the individual letters if you're careful

I got Redactle in 2. Actually, I got it in 3 because I stupidly typed both words for the first guess, which it turned into a single word with no space.

A vastly different experience from yesterday, when I used up 300+ guesses and never solved it. (I figured out "distribution," but not "exponential," even though I guessed "exponent" somewhere along the way.)

just wanted to say thread title warmed my heart

Got in 3 as well.

oh - a thought - if saying 'we got it super-quick' about today's is in itself a clue, pls mods delete post.

got it in 10, add me to the pile of africa-guessers, but then i saw "into the woods" as well and having no idea that she was involved in any production of that, took a roundabout route to the answer. i was thinking after yesterday's nightmare that i wish there was a version of redactle just for dumb assholes like me but maybe it would be too easy

feeling really dumb for having tried actor but not actress so then going in many wrong directions despite knowing that it was a woman, I had "she" and knowing that it had something to do with movies. Got it in 41.

in my experience 'him' / 'his' gets a lot of hits regardless

also 'that' and 'this'. it's odd they aren't in the common words list.

Redactle #21 in 108 guesses. "History" and "kingdom" kept me in the wrong discipline for a long time till I went for "science."

21 ??????? 174 44.25%

not great

spent too long fixated on it being a place name

147 for me. got “animal” very quickly, but couldn’t get many specifics in, which made sense in the end since it’s an umbrella term

My first Redactle experience was guessing "prophesy" ages before getting "prophecy", and it was so discouraging I almost gave up. But my scores have been ok since: 79 / 70 / 19 / 102 / 26 / 37 / 2 (!) / 34. I'm sure I'll waste an evening on one soon and want to give up.

36 today, mid-tier effort

Redactle #21 in 52, which tbh is one of my better efforts even if it is a bad score for most ilxors (my mind isn't great at going straight for possible answers but hey, I have fun filling in words to form clumps of meaning out of the murk all the same).

Still a bit annoying as I had tried the adjectival form around ~30 but thought I was looking for a more specific taxonomy-related word, of which I entered all the ones I could think of

yeah I got just 1 hit for zoologist and figured I should try a different tack

got it in 135 spent about 30 guesses knowing exactly what the answer was but just could not think of the word and was committed to not cheating like i normally do

17 for #21 - animal was an early guess, which got me 'kingdom' in the first paragraph

#22 115 / 57%

I wonder if Redactle should get its thread now too?

got this one in 31, I think my best result so far

#22 is perhaps too large. enter a word, scroll forever seeing what changes.

#22 in 133 (62.41%) (an early guess for “religion” had only 2 hits, so I never considered the first part of today’s solution as a potential answer, just thought it might fill out some blanks)

can identify with this:

I have fun filling in words to form clumps of meaning out of the murk all the same

46; got the second word in 31, considering that was my degree subject I could have spun it out a lot longer trying more typically related words.

22 ???????? ?????????? 102 52.94%

second word at 40, india at 100 having tried all the usual regions a lot earlier. "bhuddist" at 101 ffs. got The Middle Way early on, but didn't twig

A game where you have to identify the species of faeces - Turdle

there is a game called Turdle based on Wordle but it's about making a cute animated turtle jump

https://turdle.xyz/

Redactle #22 in 15, the grey blobs were speaking to me

i am terrible at this. i see 'A ??? and a ???' and i immediately think 'a hawk and a hacksaw' which is obviously bollocks but i can't get it out of my head.

23 ????? 64 48.44%

dumb luck

Yeah I had the Hawk/Hacksaw thing too. No communication from the blobs today, I just bashed away until by 141st word was it.

#23 278 / 40%

Meanwhile in Wordleland, my streak ended today. :(

^wordle 313 or 314?

Redactle #23 in 39, I got lucky.

I think my big problem with Redactle is that I enjoy filling in the blanks more than trying to work out the title. Maybe I need a game where it's "get as many of the words as you can in x minutes" and your score is the percentage you get right?

^wordle 313 or 314?

314

Redactle #23 in 31 with 70.97% accuracy. The form of that first paragraph really threw me though – it didn't look like an introductory definition and I wondered if it was some weird bit of description of an illustration or something. I actually got nothing much but filler by guess 25 and then it went types > size > metric > measure > metal > screw, bingo

Redactle #23 in 186 with 61.83% accuracy, another stellar performance, just taking my time, patiently circling the prey.

I solved today's Redactle (#23) in 81 guesses with an accuracy of 39.51%.

I knew it was related to factories 13 guesses in and it still took me another 68 guesses. Look it's been a long week.