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
― koogs, Monday, 2 May 2022 21:53 (two years ago) link
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
― Alba, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 05:27 (two years ago) link
#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
― woof, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 10:11 (two years ago) link
Redactle #27 in 6 guesses with 62.50% accuracy. That's more like it.
― Alba, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 16:13 (two years ago) link
Ha, sorry, 16 guesses not 6. Overexcited.
#27You solved it in 39 guessesYour accuracy was 51.28%Globally, 180 players have solved today's Redactle so far
― koogs, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 16:17 (two years ago) link
Bit hot on the heels of screw, this one
― Alba, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 16:19 (two years ago) link
82 guesses for today's redactle. Somehow it was "hair" at guess 80 that got me to the answer
― silverfish, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 16:33 (two years ago) link
#27 in 26 hair basically got it for me too after mucking about with materials, belt, shoes.
― woof, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 16:45 (two years ago) link
#27: 376 / 38%
You'd think that after screw I'd have learned my lesson but not really!
― Human-shaped trash bag (Leee), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 17:47 (two years ago) link
I'm not sure i even know 376 words
― koogs, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 17:55 (two years ago) link
(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
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 19:30 (two years ago) link
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!
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 20:47 (two years ago) link
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!
― middot • is • my • middle • name (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 21:04 (two years ago) link
#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
― woof, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 16:45 (two years ago) link
#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."
― Human-shaped trash bag (Leee), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 17:25 (two years ago) link
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
― koogs, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 17:37 (two years ago) link
28 ?????????????? 162 46.30%
it's not giving me a global placing today
― koogs, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 18:07 (two years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 18:10 (two years ago) link
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
― Alba, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 18:12 (two years ago) link
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.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 18:48 (two years ago) link
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
― ✖, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 19:06 (two years ago) link
#29: 174 / 37.93%
― Human-shaped trash bag (Leee), Thursday, 5 May 2022 16:25 (two years ago) link
#28 in 101 guesses with accuracy of just 45%
― Alba, Thursday, 5 May 2022 17:01 (two years ago) link
#29, rather
Once I’d established from “act” and “species” that it was something animals did, I was far too attached to thinking it was something about reproduction.
― Alba, Thursday, 5 May 2022 17:11 (two years ago) link
Alba: It kind of does, actually! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism#Sexual_cannibalism
― Human-shaped trash bag (Leee), Thursday, 5 May 2022 17:26 (two years ago) link
#29 in 76, 28.95% - had almost nothing till 'animal' at 53, 'species' at 54, and slowly got there when I realised sexual/mating etc wasn't filling it out properly - needed something tangential to that. Hmmm. Just realising that I thought I'd tried 'food' early, but I hadn't - that would have helped.
― woof, Thursday, 5 May 2022 17:35 (two years ago) link
am finding this really tough. about 200 down and still nothing
― koogs, Thursday, 5 May 2022 18:10 (two years ago) link
Take a break, maybe have some friends over for a quick bite, then come back to it.
― Human-shaped trash bag (Leee), Thursday, 5 May 2022 20:38 (two years ago) link
quality article today, appreciated the "both sides" approach to the topic
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Thursday, 5 May 2022 21:40 (two years ago) link
29 ??????????? 305 27.21%
none of my usual starts got me anything numbers, letters, continents, colours, countries. the spider sex thing was the first foothold and that was a bit of a red herring
― koogs, Thursday, 5 May 2022 22:55 (two years ago) link
seems, now I've read all the hidden text, i wasn't the only one, just the slowest
― koogs, Thursday, 5 May 2022 22:57 (two years ago) link
94 guesses / 36.17%
This was a fun one
I had "animal" and "food" and after trying "carnivore", "herbivore" and "omnivore" which all had 0 results, I just went with the obvious alternative
― silverfish, Thursday, 5 May 2022 23:09 (two years ago) link
31 guesses, had species early on, spent a lot of time thinking rather than guessing. I was also was fixated on sex but that gave me the clue, something done by the male to the female 'before, during or after copulation' made me think of spiders.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Friday, 6 May 2022 12:49 (two years ago) link
If Redactle had it's own thread, every post would look like this.
― Jaq, Friday, 6 May 2022 16:12 (two years ago) link
i do hate how hard it is to do hidden test on a phone. the square brackets aren't even on the alt page of the google keyboard but on the alt-alt-page
anyway, today, had narrowed it down by guess 20, now have to conjure the exact word out of my head and i'm not sure it's in there.
― koogs, Friday, 6 May 2022 17:12 (two years ago) link
#30 in 17 @ 64.71% - island as first guess, with Sea, English, Spanish, America main waypoints getting me there. Annoyingly, I miscounted the letters before the first 'sea' so kept thinking it wasn't Caribbean despite all the things pointing that way (tho I might have expected more hits from my Bahamas, Bermuda, Jamaica guesses). Still have a bad habit of colouring in - like I can see island ***** is going to be island chain so there's no need for me to enter 'chain' yet I cannot resist after 3 or 4 nothing guesses.
― woof, Friday, 6 May 2022 17:18 (two years ago) link
Redactle #30 in 8 with 87.50% accuracy
Got island in 2, then Antigua and Jamaica shortly after but for a minute I thought I couldn't think of any more seven-letter island countries in the Caribbean. A relief not to have fucked it up after a flying start
― Alba, Friday, 6 May 2022 17:18 (two years ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#30) in 143 guesses with an accuracy of 67.13%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/
Started strong but French colonization was my entry but I didn't think of Grenada and France
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 6 May 2022 18:02 (two years ago) link
#30 71 / 63%
I think I'm ok with higher guess counts as I do like to fill out sentences so that I can glean context and info from them. Getting to the right answer is already hard enough that I don't feel the need to min/max this game as I would with Wordle.
― Human-shaped trash bag (Leee), Friday, 6 May 2022 18:06 (two years ago) link
Redactle #30 in 41 guesses with an accuracy of 63.41%
I should have had this in about 25. I had island and west indies. I threw a bunch of island names randomly instead of before trying "French" which narrowed it down a bit
― silverfish, Friday, 6 May 2022 18:11 (two years ago) link
I know the point of redactle is trying to get it in the least amount of guesses, but I play it more like I need to get the answer as quick as possible, which means rapidly typing a lot of related words sometimes just in case they get hits.
― silverfish, Friday, 6 May 2022 18:16 (two years ago) link
15 guesses and I know what it is but I don't know what it is.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Friday, 6 May 2022 18:19 (two years ago) link
same, at about 30 guesses then looked at the list of 70 books for the jubilee knowing there were commonwealth authors on there and sure enough... wasn't something i'd've got
― koogs, Friday, 6 May 2022 21:38 (two years ago) link
19 which is a lot better than I've been doing recently
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Friday, 6 May 2022 21:43 (two years ago) link
Redactle #30 in all of 350 guesses with an accuracy of 65.43%couldn’t for the life of me think of another Caribbean island with a cricket tradition besides… Trinidad and… Tobago. filled a lot more blanks than ever before, which must count for something
― middot • is • my • middle • name (breastcrawl), Friday, 6 May 2022 22:16 (two years ago) link
bit of a slog today (205 guesses)...book=1 and author=0 early on sent me down other paths
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Saturday, 7 May 2022 16:56 (two years ago) link
#31You solved it in 247 guessesYour accuracy was 23.08%
abyssmal. last 50 of those were getting the second word
― koogs, Saturday, 7 May 2022 17:48 (two years ago) link