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
You solved it in 18 guessesYour accuracy was 66.67%Globally, 910 players have solved today's Redactle so far
was determined to get it under 20 even if it meant going away and thinking about it.
― koogs, Thursday, 12 May 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
i have to drag mouse to count letters on the mac. and, yeah, generally you can just eyeball it if it's 6 or under.
― koogs, Thursday, 12 May 2022 17:03 (one year ago) link
#36 in 7. Happy… but I could have shaved a couple.
I drag across and count on mac chrome, or copy and paste then delete each letter-blank counting "one, two, three, four" as I go if I want to be certain. I only do it for title and key words that I've got a hypothesis for.
― woof, Thursday, 12 May 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
#36 600 (sic) / 41%
Oof! Got sponge at 211 but didn't think to try bath until 596, which led me to soap, which got me close to the final answer.
― Santa Barbarous (Leee), Thursday, 12 May 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
161 guesses / 37.27%
Went in all kinds of completely wrong directions on this one
― silverfish, Thursday, 12 May 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
7! How? 89 for me, stuck too long on the science section, especially when x-rays showed up.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Thursday, 12 May 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
7 was pretty lucky tbh subscripts made me try a few chemistry words, but 'atomic' and 'chemical' and a couple of others were a bit blank - states seemed a good direction, and picked gas first. You can see liquid and solid in the first sentence if you've got that & then I just made myself stop guessing and think.
― woof, Thursday, 12 May 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
#36 in 40. Not bad - was slightly thrown by what looked like a a section heading consisting of a single character, which turned out to be a comma and not a hearing at all
― Alba, Thursday, 12 May 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
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.
― ledge, Friday, 5 April 2024 19:38 (two weeks ago) link
I solved Redactle #731 in 16 guesses with an accuracy of 81.3% and a time of 00:12:51.
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Saturday, 6 April 2024 17:59 (two weeks ago) link
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 :/
― ledge, Sunday, 7 April 2024 16:51 (two weeks ago) link
I solved Redactle #732 in 48 guesses with an accuracy of 77.1% and a time of 00:17:08. guessed ‘birth’ at 31
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Sunday, 7 April 2024 23:53 (two weeks ago) link
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”
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 16:38 (one week ago) link
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
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:36 (one week ago) link
I solved Redactle #736 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:02:58.
― ledge, Thursday, 11 April 2024 17:11 (one week ago) link
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
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Friday, 12 April 2024 17:51 (one week ago) link
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.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 12 April 2024 18:35 (one week ago) link
I solved Redactle #737 in 22 guesses with an accuracy of 77.3% and a time of 00:51:31mid-air, nope, hot-air, nope, gas-air, low-air, non-air, nope...
― ledge, Friday, 12 April 2024 20:20 (one week ago) link
I solved Redactle #738 in 168 guesses with an accuracy of 74.4% and a time of 00:42:51. ah, sure
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Saturday, 13 April 2024 21:52 (one week ago) link
basically cheated (a hint that gave it away), otherwise I'd have been barking up the wrong medical condition tree forever.
― ledge, Sunday, 14 April 2024 06:41 (one week ago) link
I solved Redactle #739 in 10 guesses with an accuracy of 90.0% and a time of 00:10:12. d'oh
― ledge, Sunday, 14 April 2024 17:27 (one week ago) link
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
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Sunday, 14 April 2024 19:24 (one week ago) link
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.
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Monday, 15 April 2024 19:33 (one week ago) link
I solved Redactle #740 in 7 guesses with an accuracy of 57.1% and a time of 00:17:09no way at all I could think of some islands off of south America which were in the news throughout my childhood. absolutely not. impossible.
― ledge, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 13:06 (one week ago) link
I solved Redactle #741 in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:10:56.damnit
― ledge, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 18:21 (one week ago) link
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******!
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 19:45 (one week ago) link
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
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 19:10 (six days ago) link
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.
― ledge, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 19:39 (six days ago) link
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
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Thursday, 18 April 2024 19:30 (five days ago) link
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.
― ledge, Thursday, 18 April 2024 19:57 (five days ago) link
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?
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Friday, 19 April 2024 18:38 (four days ago) link
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
― ledge, Friday, 19 April 2024 20:01 (four days ago) link
I solved Redactle #745 in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:06:37. you were saying?
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Saturday, 20 April 2024 19:25 (three days ago) link
I solved Redactle #745 in 4 guesses with an accuracy of 75.0% and a time of 00:01:12.don't guess, think
― ledge, Saturday, 20 April 2024 19:56 (three days ago) link
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
― ledge, Sunday, 21 April 2024 17:08 (two days ago) link
I solved Redactle #746 in 48 guesses with an accuracy of 64.6% and a time of 00:12:54.
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Sunday, 21 April 2024 21:27 (two days ago) link
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.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 22 April 2024 16:47 (yesterday) link
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!
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Monday, 22 April 2024 21:13 (yesterday) link
I solved Redactle #747 in 4 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:15:24.
― ledge, Monday, 22 April 2024 21:28 (yesterday) link