______ the ____________: Redactle

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.

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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!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Redactle/comments/unfexf/a_still_hacky_way_to_play_custom_redactles/

wow, got this one in 6. did a random guess for “city” at 4 and after “city-state” announced itself hit the jackpot right away.

blimey i'm shit at this, into 100+ guesses and no idea still

got it in 172

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.

I solved Redactle #741 in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:10:56.

damnit

I solved Redactle #741 in 9 guesses with an accuracy of 77.8% and a time of 00:08:21.

country > city > NYC > WTC > oh, let’s try b******!

I solved Redactle #742 in 84 guesses with an accuracy of 90.5% and a time of 00:18:36.

lol forgot about the most obvious word

I solved Redactle #742 in 24 guesses with an accuracy of 45.8% and a time of 00:15:29.

can't be g------. nah. let's guess all seven letter u.s. states instead.

I solved Redactle #743 in 49 guesses with an accuracy of 65.3% and a time of 00:13:44.

confused by the header at first, but was fun to get there

I solved Redactle #743 in 19 guesses with an accuracy of 73.7% and a time of 00:23:51.

my very first thought was 'food as ...' weapon? art? Still guessed six other words first.

I solved Redactle #744 in 83 guesses with an accuracy of 69.9% and a time of 00:22:06.

mon dieux, what was I thinking?

I solved Redactle #744 in 6 guesses with an accuracy of 50.0% and a time of 00:09:25.

these ones are a bit boring now tbh

I solved Redactle #745 in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:06:37.

you were saying?

I solved Redactle #745 in 4 guesses with an accuracy of 75.0% and a time of 00:01:12.

don't guess, think

I solved Redactle #746 in 4 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:07:13.

if I could count it could have been a hole in one

I solved Redactle #746 in 48 guesses with an accuracy of 64.6% and a time of 00:12:54.

I solved Redactle #747 in 5 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:01:09. Play at https://redactle.net/

Annoyingly I could have got it in one but put airplane instead of aircraft.

I solved Redactle #747 in 33 guesses with an accuracy of 63.6% and a time of 00:08:46.

fly me to the moon!

I solved Redactle #747 in 4 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:15:24.

I solved Redactle #747 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:02:59.

vg

I solved Redactle #748 in 7 guesses with an accuracy of 57.1% and a time of 00:06:19.

yawn

I solved Redactle #750 in 90 guesses with an accuracy of 73.3% and a time of 00:18:03.

first word in 8!

I solved Redactle #750 in 10 guesses with an accuracy of 90.0% and a time of 00:04:28.

I solved Redactle #751 in 135 guesses with an accuracy of 68.1% and a time of 00:37:48.

the long and winding road that leads to your door

I solved Redactle #751 in 24 guesses with an accuracy of 79.2% and a time of 00:20:19.

area nerd baffled by 'sport' with no 'ball'

I solved Redactle #756 in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:19:31.

should have been a oner, of course. I actually considered it and then, based on its neighbors, decided against it, God knows why - the (almost) heat got to me, I guess

I solved Redactle #757 in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 66.7% and a time of 00:10:42.

damn, exact same scenario. went past the globe, found this one but had my doubts and put it in the back of my mind, but then forgot about it at first after my main region didn’t deliver

What else should it be?
All topology

I solved Redactle #757 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:00:25.

lucky-ish guess-ish

I solved Redactle #758 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:06:24.

clear what the first word had to be, as for the other one: there was a big clue somewhere in there

I solved Redactle #758 in 12 guesses with an accuracy of 75.0% and a time of 00:07:37.

missed the clue

I solved Redactle #758 in 12 guesses with an accuracy of 75.0% and a time of 00:07:37.

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yesterday’s puzzle:

I solved Redactle #759 in 1000 guesses with an accuracy of 57.4% and a time of 03:59:28. Hints used: 3

cheated to get the answer, thought I would perhaps recognize the name, but not really. a very interesting leisurely stroll through pre-islamic middle eastern history. A+ experience

crikey.

I solved Redactle #760 in 26 guesses with an accuracy of 69.2% and a time of 00:13:00.

I solved Redactle #760 in 8 guesses with an accuracy of 87.5% and a time of 00:04:36.

holy cow! a scientific subject and i got it within 10 guesses!

I solved Redactle #763 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:03:48.

I solved Redactle #763 in 7 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:12:31.

was gonna say: open for 2

I solved Redactle #764 in 6 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:08:13.

another one that retroactively should have been a hole-in-one with the massive clue in there

I solved Redactle #764 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:17:58.

far too long.