______ the ____________: Redactle

(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.

looks quite intimidating does this, will have to give it a try.

you only have to get the title. but that can still take you 100s of guesses

https://www.reddit.com/r/Redactle/comments/ukobfu/a_very_hacky_method_to_play_past_random_and/

so googling chains of revealed words to find the source isn't cheating - it doesn't seem so bad now!

oops sorry ledge, was going to answer your question and then I ~apparently~ forgot about it!

it was the ———/Or thing that came up repeatedly. I knew what it had to be and that it was a famous book?/film?/something but couldn’t remember any context about it, so it was a dead-end

currently bamboozled by 709

OK I know what it is but I don't know what it is. And I guessed moor at 23 but it didn't give me anything.

yep, noticed that too (as well as in some earlier game). the glitch category where you have to enter the plural separately to get the hits it already should have given you when you entered the singular

Yeah I guess the plural/singular mapping ultimately comes from a manual list.

Gave up on 709, I would not have got it.

I solved Redactle #710 in 29 guesses with an accuracy of 65.5% and a time of 00:17:19.

I solved Redactle #710 in 27 guesses with an accuracy of 70.4% and a time of 00:10:36.

I solved Redactle #711 in 16 guesses with an accuracy of 93.8% and a time of 00:10:24.

what connects I*a*y and *o**a*? - altho it was actually **a**e I should’ve been thinking of

I solved Redactle #711 in 41 guesses with an accuracy of 46.3% and a time of 00:38:28. Hints used: 1

disastrous. couldn't get the broad topic, couldn't guess the crucial three letter word in the first para, had to get the French hint for the first word thanks to brain failure.

I solved Redactle #713 in 52 guesses with an accuracy of 78.8% and a time of 00:14:43.

could it be that it was all so simple then

I solved Redactle #715 in 17 guesses with an accuracy of 88.2% and a time of 00:11:04.

I solved Redactle #713 in 7 guesses with an accuracy of 85.7% and a time of 00:14:00.

hooray!

I solved Redactle #715 in 34 guesses with an accuracy of 70.6% and a time of 00:30:58.

boo!

I solved Redactle #717 in 47 guesses with an accuracy of 72.3% and a time of 00:16:11.

gah, had the first and last part in 9, and the root of the middle word at 14, stupidly didn’t think that part thru enough

I solved Redactle #717 in 54 guesses with an accuracy of 61.1% and a time of 01:01:11.

pissed off at the article for only having two hits for 'religion', and at myself for somehow coming to believe that it had no hits for 'religion'.

I forgot this game existed! And it's fun. I'm not GOOD at it, it took me 65 guesses and one Google search today.

it's the only one I'm still playing every day, two years after the wordle etc craze.

I solved Redactle #718 in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:04:52.

ok I cheated and looked at a map but I knew what kind of thing and where it was, I guess I could have spent more than 5 mins thinking and it was totally gettable if I'd guessed the continent name.

What was the ilxor-adjacent game where you have to guess the word from a pool of all words?

I solved Redactle #718 in 42 guesses with an accuracy of 73.8% and a time of 00:15:49.

xp semantle

I solved Redactle #719 in 33 guesses with an accuracy of 69.7% and a time of 00:32:15.

got the surname in 11 but couldn’t think of their first name. tried a lot of potentially suitable ones, and then took a break. when I opened it again just now the name came to me just like that, you know how these things go

I solved Redactle #721 in 4 guesses with an accuracy of 75.0% and a time of 00:10:21.

big clue in the first para if you know who said it. I didn't so guessed a matching painter. Two goes to spell the middle name.

I solved Redactle #721 in 170 guesses with an accuracy of 72.4% and a time of 00:40:21.

cheated, because I don’t know these people

I solved Redactle #722 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:00:24.

I solved Redactle #723 in 97 guesses with an accuracy of 56.7% and a time of 00:19:12.

thought I had covered the field (or should I say forest) but of course I was wrong

I solved Redactle #724 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:10:15.

was thinking of two other similar options first, but then the examples showed up

I solved Redactle #724 in 5 guesses with an accuracy of 80.0% and a time of 00:25:59.

scratched my head for a long time after I'd guessed two other four on the floor genres.

I solved Redactle #725 in 23 guesses with an accuracy of 73.9% and a time of 00:15:32. Hints used: 1

guessed the second word right, to my slight astonishment, but I knew both initials anyway - listening to a lot of music from a certain relevant city will do that to you. the info provided by the hint was enough to get the first word as well

after using a hint to get the first word my only guesses are tirith and morgul, lol

I solved Redactle #727 in 240 guesses with an accuracy of 54.6% and a time of 00:42:47.

did take a scan of some potential Peruvian specimens

I solved Redactle #727 in 61 guesses with an accuracy of 62.3% and a time of 00:38:39. Hints used: 1

I have read "hullabaloo in the guava orchard" but that wasn't enough for it to spring to mind.

I solved Redactle #730 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:18:20.

took some time figuring this out as my working theory was that it had to be an Arab country (or one with an Arabic name), given the two-element name between brackets and the region. Had to adjust, and here we are

I solved Redactle #730 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:05:24.

Eastern (or western) mediterranean sea was the clue for me, when it finally clicked.

I solved Redactle #731 in 16 guesses with an accuracy of 81.3% and a time of 00:12:51.

I solved Redactle #731 in 8 guesses with an accuracy of 62.5% and a time of 00:14:49.

I solved Redactle #732 in 21 guesses with an accuracy of 81.0% and a time of 00:18:16.

guessed 'birth' at 12 :/

I solved Redactle #732 in 48 guesses with an accuracy of 77.1% and a time of 00:17:08.

guessed ‘birth’ at 31

I solved Redactle #735 in 57 guesses with an accuracy of 56.1% and a time of 00:14:45.

lol “country” was my first guess, and then I got sidetracked by hits on “China”, “Taiwan” and “dispute”

I solved Redactle #736 in 35 guesses with an accuracy of 71.4% and a time of 00:13:33.

just another day at the office

I solved Redactle #736 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:02:58.

I solved Redactle #737 in 201 guesses with an accuracy of 61.7% and a time of 00:28:54.

plugging my way to the answer, no sweat

I solved it in like 9 guesses a week or two ago! I think it was South Africa that day. Usually it takes me a million.

I solved Redactle #737 in 22 guesses with an accuracy of 77.3% and a time of 00:51:31

mid-air, nope, hot-air, nope, gas-air, low-air, non-air, nope...

I solved Redactle #738 in 168 guesses with an accuracy of 74.4% and a time of 00:42:51. ah, sure

basically cheated (a hint that gave it away), otherwise I'd have been barking up the wrong medical condition tree forever.

I solved Redactle #739 in 10 guesses with an accuracy of 90.0% and a time of 00:10:12.

d'oh

I solved Redactle #739 in 99 guesses with an accuracy of 69.7% and a time of 00:16:53.

well… 📌 fell into my lap, thankfully

I solved Redactle #740 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:03:22.

a classic first-paragraph-only Redactle, so satisfying.

I solved Redactle #740 in 7 guesses with an accuracy of 57.1% and a time of 00:17:09

no way at all I could think of some islands off of south America which were in the news throughout my childhood. absolutely not. impossible.