Defend The Indefensible: Wordle

looked up the answer at 156 having got as far as "most populous city in Nigeria"

I solved today's Redactle (#25) in 9 guesses with an accuracy of 77.78%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

I'm not sure where the cheating line is with these. it's certainly wrong to Google phrases in the answer to find the exact page they are taken from but what about narrowing it down to an exact thing, an Australian animal say, and then looking up a list of those?

I don’t do any of that, unless I’ve given up. I got today’s in 11. Might be the first time I’ve pretty much read the form of the first sentence from the outset.

like with Chopin, you narrow it down to a single proper noun but aren't that up on your polish composers. it stops being a word puzzle and becomes general knowledge.

the other thing I've noticed is that it's harder on my phone because the squares are physically bigger, wider than the letters, so you can't see exactly how long the redacted words are. (also the keyboard and the guess box fight with each other)

on my ancient samsung the input box is about one pixel high, hitting it is half the game. i can select blank squares to see how long the words are though.

like with Chopin, you narrow it down to a single proper noun but aren't that up on your polish composers. it stops being a word puzzle and becomes general knowledge.

You mean the Inca one?

I think that Redactle is definitely a knowledge game, just like Worldle is a geography game.

Inca one, sorry. I’m clearly not adding to my general knowledge very well.

Annoying that, given the open-source nature of Wikipedia, that the dating conventions are inconsistent, e.g. AD and BC vs. CE and BCE.

like with Chopin, you narrow it down to a single proper noun but aren't that up on your polish composers. it stops being a word puzzle and becomes general knowledge.

― koogs, Sunday, 1 May 2022 20:32 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

feeling this today...I've got Babylon, Assyria, Mesopotamia and am now wracking my brain for other place names

You are so close, my dude. So very very close.

yeah you're about to make the exact same error I made that resulted in [redacted] minutes of pointless brain scraping

wtf I have never heard of Babylonia

Redactle in 58 and a fair amount of confusion

I solved today's Redactle (#26) in 50 guesses with an accuracy of 70.00% - my best result so far, bar that Meryl-Streep-in-3 fluke.

115 guesses, 69% accuracy, getting the final answer was a fluke

(█, █, █, █, █, ██, ██, ██, ██, and ██)

this has to be something, but god knows what

today's is another subject area i know very little about

guessing words based on second hand references like pixies lyrics and The Warriors

yeah you're about to make the exact same error I made that resulted in [redacted] minutes of pointless brain scraping

My 860 guesses feels this acutely (I had to look up hints to get to the right answer despite getting Babylon and Babylonian at 115 and 116).

koogs, at one point I was inputting everything I could remember from playing Civilization VI

lol Leee that is v close to mine too: 680 guesses, those two words at 135 and 136, fairly demoralizing though I got yesterday's in 24

26 ????????? 130 54.62%

the thing that was obviously something was nothing

300, the Frank miller thing was another, failed source of guesses

when i should've been guessing things from bob marley all along

I gave up after 100, I had Mesopotamia fairly early on and knew that was probably as close as I was going to get. i cheated to get akkadian which was no help, can't imagine I would have got it if I'd carried on plugging away.

yesterday i overlooked africa until late having done 4 other continents and got nowhere. maybe if I'd literally slept on it i may've got lagos, but i doubt it

the other thing that would've helped today is conan the barbarian. i noticed Cimmeria was mentioned

Redactle #26 in 170 guesses, accuracy 77.65%. another Babylon ……………… Babylonia journey here. Stuff upthread too spoilery, glad I didn’t look at this thread

#24 in 197 haha just when I was starting think 'I'm pretty good at this' - got a kind of medieval religious orders thing and just got super stuck digging around guilds and templars and trying to remember what else they did - eventually hostel and hotel got me there

#25 in 27 lucky. fast to African city, and got West, then realised I didn't have much of a grasp of African geography (eg trying out the North African countries because well they're sort of west as well). But eventually hit Nigeria then straight to the answer - absolutely would not have been able to get it if it was Abuja

#26 in 54 Hit the same dead end as everyone else but then looking back over the number of hits for Babylon/Babylonian vs any other plausible local civ made me pause and think hard

Redactle #27 in 6 guesses with 62.50% accuracy. That's more like it.

Ha, sorry, 16 guesses not 6. Overexcited.

#27
You solved it in 39 guesses
Your accuracy was 51.28%
Globally, 180 players have solved today's Redactle so far

Bit hot on the heels of screw, this one

82 guesses for today's redactle. Somehow it was "hair" at guess 80 that got me to the answer

#27 in 26 hair basically got it for me too after mucking about with materials, belt, shoes.

#27: 376 / 38%

You'd think that after screw I'd have learned my lesson but not really!

I'm not sure i even know 376 words

(you have more patience than me)

not my day...222 and I was pretty surprised when I got it, I was just flinging words around at that point

Got it in 43 somehow, my guesses were going nowhere, was particularly perplexed by "can be made to float on water". In the end I just took a stab at a more or less random four letter word!

I solved today's Redactle (#27) in 137 guesses with an accuracy of 57.66%. Was using the boa constrictor method again, just trying to fill in as many circumstantial words as possible because this wasn’t my kind of topic and then the word just jumped at me, (no more) skip- skip- skip- skipping!

#28 - basically gave in at 83 chemical by guess 2, sugar by 66, saccharide/ine at 68/9, then rapidly exhausted glucose, sucrose, etc. Eventually googled glucose and the infobox effectively gave me the answer. Maybe gettable if I'd paid a bit more attention to the etymology - had 'greek', & 'sugar' - & lettercount

#28 77 / 48%

I wonder if that'll hold up against the ILX Redactle savants!

A lot less beating around the bush for me: once I noticed the subscripts, I guessed chemical at 24, which got me to carbon (@28) and then sugar (@29). Polysaccharide @45 had no hits, and so I didn't think of polysaccharides till 64, and from there it didn't take me too much longer to figure out, "Hey, maybe try mono."

i turned on the 'pluralise' flag, thinking it'd help (cheat a bit). but it counts both anyway, even when it guesses rubbish like turned and turneds

good early start today but am now struggling

28 ?????????????? 162 46.30%

it's not giving me a global placing today

probably because i don't deserve one.

lots of single letters got me c and carbon early on and the chemical formula not long after. but went down the hydrocarbons route.

Gave up on turn 244 after throwing words at it stopped being fun. Now I see the answer it was just conceivable I might have got it if I'd persevered as I was as far as:
███████████████ (from Greek █████: ██████, ███████: █████), ████ ██████ simple ██████, are the simplest form of █████ and the most █████ █████ (████████) of █████████████. The ███████ ███████ is , or [█n(H2O)n] or ███2██n ██████ not all molecules ███████ ████ ███████ (e.g. ██████ ████) are █████████████. They are ███████ █████████, water-soluble, and ███████████ solids. ████████ to █████ ████ (██████), ████ ████ ███████████████ ████ a █████ █████.
If I'd have guessed sugar maybe that would have unlocked it but, nah, I probably wouldn't have

I solved today's Redactle (#28) in 70 guesses with an accuracy of 38.57%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

I cheated on this one, I had "sugar" and "molecule" and "carbohydrate" so I basically knew what kind of thing I was looking for, but (after a couple of basic guesses) I also knew that I was unlikely to find the exact word. Did a quick google search based on "nH2nOn" which I'd also uncovered and found the answer.

also gave up and googled CxH2xOx after guessing every letter in the alphabet lol. this isn't a word that i have swimming around in my brain. need another meryl streep for my confidence

#29: 174 / 37.93%

#28 in 101 guesses with accuracy of just 45%