117 in and I don't know any other kinds of insects :(
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Monday, 9 May 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
31 despite forgetting my usual guess of species. Guessing year and life gave me '__- year life _____' - obviously 'cycle', thx old bbc nature documentaries.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Monday, 9 May 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
> 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
― koogs, Monday, 9 May 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
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.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 9 May 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link
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.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 9 May 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
#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
― Alba, Monday, 9 May 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
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
― silverfish, Monday, 9 May 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link
121 not much to say really
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Monday, 9 May 2022 20:37 (one year ago) link
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.
― Ste, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 11:54 (one year ago) link
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.
― sarahell, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 13:52 (one year ago) link
yes pretty much how my first play was too
re yesterdays puzzle, just seen the answer, nope would not have got that ever
― Ste, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link
Congratulations, you solved Redactle #34!You solved it in 50 guessesYour accuracy was 66.00%Globally, 313 players have solved today's Redactle so far
― koogs, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
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
― silverfish, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
#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.
― Star Trek: Strange New Wordles (Leee), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
69 today, 127 yesterday - got totally thrown by all the stuff about songs
― crisp, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
140 today, a right shambles.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link
33 today, species lead to Darwin lead to Beagle in quick succession once I got species
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
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.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link
it's always annoying when Redactle accepts a misspelled word, not that that accounted for more than one of my 176 tries today :(
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 23:16 (one year ago) link
#34 in 56, pretty happy with that.
― Alba, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 08:22 (one year ago) link
#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…
― woof, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 09:27 (one year ago) link
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.
― weatheringdaleson, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 11:35 (one year ago) link
#35 in 2.
― woof, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
wtf
― Ste, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
Got it in 28, with only three zero guesses.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 16:40 (one year ago) link
#35You solved it in 76 guessesYour accuracy was 81.58%Globally, 1732 players have solved today's Redactle so far
― koogs, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link
i think Cicadas was a bit too american-leaning also
― koogs, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link
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.
― woof, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
xpI 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)
― woof, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#35) in 36 guesses with an accuracy of 83.33%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 17:24 (one year ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#35) in 17 guesses with an accuracy of 76.47%. No triple digits for me today!
― Star Trek: Strange New Wordles (Leee), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
#35You solved it in 51 guessesYour accuracy was 84.31%
-- I am better at this than Semantle
― sarahell, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
Amazing woof! I saw city-state but only after guesting world, countries, asia, country, and crucially island. In total 11 guesses, 100% accuracy.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
Good work, woof! I got there in 5.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
crap, sorry for spoilers in my post. don't scroll up if you haven't got it yet!
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link
10 here. My kind of Redactle.
― Alba, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 19:49 (one year ago) link
happy with 8, knew someone here would beat it
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
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
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link
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.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:12 (one year ago) link
looks quite intimidating does this, will have to give it a try.
― calzino, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
you only have to get the title. but that can still take you 100s of guesses
― koogs, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/Redactle/comments/ukobfu/a_very_hacky_method_to_play_past_random_and/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:27 (one year ago) link
so googling chains of revealed words to find the source isn't cheating - it doesn't seem so bad now!
― calzino, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:28 (one year ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/Redactle/comments/unfexf/a_still_hacky_way_to_play_custom_redactles/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
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.
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:32 (one year ago) link
blimey i'm shit at this, into 100+ guesses and no idea still
― Ste, Thursday, 12 May 2022 11:56 (one year ago) link
got it in 172
― Ste, Thursday, 12 May 2022 12:23 (one year ago) link
A question to the letter counters: do you see the individual boxes, or do you highlight them one at a time and count them that way? If the former, what browser do you use?
― Santa Barbarous (Leee), Thursday, 12 May 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
lol, got it in 141 after going so many wrong ways.
re counting i only do it rarely but for the most part it's by eye (since it's all in a monospace font. i usually don't count if it's over 5 or so)
anyway today: i got stuck early with a few hits on "sound" which is not helpful!! but eventually worked my way to gas and liquid and solid... seemed like one in the other... struggled a little longer, got one hit for beer near the beginning, and the next one was the answer
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 May 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link
im gonna spoiler tag this too just in case but possible bug i found? (if you're still trying to do today's, it shouldn't affect you)i got zero hits for hz, even though there is a Hz in there? huh?
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 May 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
I solved Redactle #693 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:06:41.took a gamble, and huff…
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 22:01 (one month ago) link
I solved Redactle #693 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:17:31."Commonwealth of Pennyslyvania" - er ok?... "Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions" I mean really
― ledge, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 22:52 (one month ago) link
I solved Redactle #695 in 21 guesses with an accuracy of 85.7% and a time of 00:06:04. guessed ‘food’ in 4, matter of time from there
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Friday, 1 March 2024 22:38 (three weeks ago) link
I solved Redactle #694 in 10 guesses with an accuracy of 60.0% and a time of 00:07:54.I usually guess materials (metal, wood) if it looks like a human made object so that went wellI solved Redactle #695 in 38 guesses with an accuracy of 60.5% and a time of 00:24:07.I thought it was something geographical. it was some time after I'd guessed Turkey that I realised the hits didn't start with a capital letter.
― ledge, Saturday, 2 March 2024 07:54 (three weeks ago) link
I solved Redactle #696 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:01:46. not the hardest puzzle ever, I’ll give you that
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Saturday, 2 March 2024 20:01 (three weeks ago) link
I solved Redactle #696 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:01:55.obvious from the jump what kind of thing it was but had to dredge it from my memory. I visited it 30 years ago.
― ledge, Saturday, 2 March 2024 20:27 (three weeks ago) link
I solved Redactle #697 in 44 guesses with an accuracy of 65.9% and a time of 00:13:18. well, well, well, you sure got me there
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Sunday, 3 March 2024 22:06 (three weeks ago) link
I solved Redactle #697 in 7 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:04:03.hate these ones where it should be an easy hole in one but i can't dredge it from my brain.
― ledge, Monday, 4 March 2024 08:41 (three weeks ago) link
I solved Redactle #698 in 292 guesses with an accuracy of 72.3% and a time of 00:59:38. Hints used: 2the fourth-largest city of this country of which I know the three largest, associated with a famous singer, I knew that as well. thanks to the hints in the etymology section I got very close, but I had to cheat anyway. you know what they say: hints don’t lie!
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Monday, 4 March 2024 22:21 (three weeks ago) link
I solved Redactle #699 in 95 guesses with an accuracy of 71.6% and a time of 00:16:20. nerve-racking
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 23:20 (three weeks ago) link
I solved Redactle #699 in 27 guesses with an accuracy of 74.1% and a time of 00:20:37.'psychology' at 5 so ehh could've been better
― gene besserit (ledge), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 08:23 (three weeks ago) link
I solved Redactle #700 in 4 guesses with an accuracy of 50.0% and a time of 00:09:03. sex? I had to do it. then art.
― gene besserit (ledge), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 20:09 (three weeks ago) link
I solved Redactle #701 in 40 guesses with an accuracy of 77.5% and a time of 00:15:31. cheated, because I knew that I wouldn’t be able to come up with the name of this specific thing despite having established what it was
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Friday, 8 March 2024 17:41 (two weeks ago) link
I solved Redactle #700 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:03:03.
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Friday, 8 March 2024 17:50 (two weeks ago) link
I solved Redactle #702 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:05:52. had to be a sport with a ball
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Friday, 8 March 2024 18:01 (two weeks ago) link
I solved Redactle #707 in 34 guesses with an accuracy of 76.5% and a time of 00:22:53. country in 29, surname in 30, then I slightly panicked: do I even know their first name? turns out I did. there was of course a huge, wide open clue, I just didn’t know how and where to place it
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 23:27 (two weeks ago) link
I solved Redactle #707 in 4 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:08:17. including trying the name with a regular o. what was the clue?
― gene besserit (ledge), Thursday, 14 March 2024 06:48 (two weeks ago) link
lulz
I solved Redactle #709 in 24 guesses with an accuracy of 58.3% and a time of 00:11:32. nice one
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Friday, 15 March 2024 23:59 (one week ago) link
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
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Saturday, 16 March 2024 10:04 (one week ago) link
currently bamboozled by 709
― gene besserit (ledge), Saturday, 16 March 2024 10:20 (one week ago) link
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.
― gene besserit (ledge), Saturday, 16 March 2024 10:26 (one week ago) link
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
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Saturday, 16 March 2024 10:42 (one week ago) link
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.
― gene besserit (ledge), Saturday, 16 March 2024 19:33 (one week ago) link
I solved Redactle #710 in 27 guesses with an accuracy of 70.4% and a time of 00:10:36.
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Saturday, 16 March 2024 21:00 (one week ago) link
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
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Sunday, 17 March 2024 17:55 (one week ago) link
I solved Redactle #711 in 41 guesses with an accuracy of 46.3% and a time of 00:38:28. Hints used: 1disastrous. 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.
― gene besserit (ledge), Monday, 18 March 2024 08:38 (one week ago) link
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
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 22:09 (one week ago) link
I solved Redactle #715 in 17 guesses with an accuracy of 88.2% and a time of 00:11:04.
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Thursday, 21 March 2024 21:55 (one week ago) link
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!
― gene besserit (ledge), Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:09 (one week ago) link
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
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Saturday, 23 March 2024 21:20 (five days ago) link
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'.
― gene besserit (ledge), Sunday, 24 March 2024 12:53 (four days ago) link
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.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Sunday, 24 March 2024 14:55 (four days ago) link
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.
― gene besserit (ledge), Sunday, 24 March 2024 17:34 (four days ago) link
What was the ilxor-adjacent game where you have to guess the word from a pool of all words?
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Sunday, 24 March 2024 19:50 (four days ago) link
I solved Redactle #718 in 42 guesses with an accuracy of 73.8% and a time of 00:15:49.
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Sunday, 24 March 2024 19:55 (four days ago) link
xp semantle
― gene besserit (ledge), Sunday, 24 March 2024 20:09 (four days ago) link
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
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 15:28 (two days ago) link
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.
― gene besserit (ledge), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:26 (yesterday) link