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yes, but I couldn't be bothered to type out 'the first sentence apart from the first word which is the same as the title' on my phone.

cheated after 13, never heard of it. thought of protozoan but that was too long, overnight the best my brain could come up with was microbe.

A similar story to the previous day; this time, I struggled to 174 and Kevin added just nine more on top.

Farewell my 2 day hot streak - gave up after reading the nopes in this thread. Right to stop - quickly got the gist as above - kingdom that isn't animal, plant, fungus - and just burned through a dozen or so words that might get me somewhere. Like ledge, microbe was my best shot. And, like ledge, I just do not know this word.

don't think I'm going to get this one

Gave up. Didn’t know word.

fail also

got animal very early and then immediately spotted the not. tried the obvious not animals and they were also nots, which didn't leave much.

dug up some words that i figured were vaguely connected amoeba, protozoa, mycology (0), cytoplasm, phylogeny. woke up this morning sure the answer was microbe...

Didn't know the word, finally cheated by looking up a list of kingdoms, finding protista, and guessing that protist was a word.

#37 was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protist which i don't think anybody got

I got 37, mostly without cheating (I googled something, entered biological even though I'd already figured out the not animal, plant, fungus angle).

I solved today's Redactle (#38) in 98 guesses with an accuracy of 62.24%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

finally one to brag about

Redactle (#38) in 8 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%

struggling. lack of domain knowledge again

58, 62%
was aiming more for real world religious figures/history rather than foundational

8 for me too

I kind of like it better when it drags on for a bit, staring at the blobs to discern sentence structure feels meditative, except when it's a word I've never heard of obv

just typing random biblical names and words in the vain hope of getting somewhere.

omg I'm so dense. I had abrahamic by about guess 10. somehow took me another 138 to get it. I shouldn't try to play before the kids are in bed.

Redactle #38 in 1 🏅

y'all are amazing. I was gonna brag about getting #38 in 19 guesses ... the fact my name is Sarah was a factor in my success tbh; I didn't actually guess my name

#38
You solved it in 113 guesses
Your accuracy was 63.72%
Globally, 4462 players have solved today's Redactle so far

lots of Bible in that article

Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaims, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.

#38 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham

#39 i am surprised that Wet Leg have a wikipedia entry...

153, 66% - I knew blood sucking insect pretty quickly but I didn't think of using bug... also didn't know that bed bugs were blood suckers.

#39 in 7. Inevitable comedown after yesterday's 1. Annoying, I actually guessed it after 3, but stupidly got excited and typed the whole things as one, which then registered as bedbug, then before I clocked what was happening I typed bed bugs plural which became bedbugs, so two turns wasted through carelessness

Not going to look at this thread again before playing though - I think koogs' "i am surprised that [show hidden text] have a wikipedia entry..." helped me a bit even without the hidden text!

made a meal of that

You solved it in 250 guesses
Your accuracy was 44.00%
Globally, 4088 players have solved today's Redactle so far

went down the disease route, cow pox etc. and the red circle with central spot sounded like ticks, lyme disease, spirochetes etc. was none of these

149 guesses, 54% accuracy -- unlike puzzle #37 where I had a clear idea of what the thing was, but didn't know the word, it took me over 100 guesses to even get a sense of the general vicinity of what the thing was.

oh wow, sorry koogs - your post was a joke. It helped me inadvertently because I thought you’d actually done today’s!

High score today of 584!

wow that's dedication!

48, wasted 28 guesses before trying species.

19 guesses! my best score by a lot.

blargh 222 just didn't think of it I did try "bite" and "insect" halfway through and it showed kind of something but "bites" and "insects" would have got me there in a snap

alba i think you're ready to go pro

i stupidly cheated at the end assuming it must be some bloodsucking insect that i'd never heard of - couldn't let go of the thought that it'd be the same 3 letter word repeating like "tse tse"

I got thrown a bit because Africa and South America were the only continents I hit and I don't think of bed bugs as having an original habitat.

#38 was a 'did not participate' - weekend stuff just completely in the way. Fitted in 15 guesses, & given a favourable domain and what I already had would have got there under 100.

Looking at #39 after next coffee.

#39 in 18 insects by 14, then fly, ant, bug. Long pause staring at the first 3 letter word and wondering if this was an American thing that I hadn't heard of before remembering the existence of these little shits.

Nice work again Alba - and how'd you get yesterday's in one? (Amazing btw - I don't think that's been marvelled at anything like enough). The best way in I noticed was the chapter-and-verse stuff but even if I'd played with focus I'd have been homing in for a few guesses.

Thanks woof. For Abraham it was the same old tell as with prophecy that it was something biblical from the chapter verse punctuation, yeah. So I was looking for "Christianity"/"Christian"/"Judaism" in the intro to see how closely it was something biblical and doing that the second sentence looked like a succession of “In Christianity … in Judaism … in Islam”. There seemed a good change that the the two-letter word after each was “he”, so was thinking of big (judging by the length of the article) seven-letter name figures in the … Abrahamic religions and he came to mind shortly after I began fretting that I wasn't sure how to spell Ezekiel.

In a way I'm more pleased with #39 where I had a feeling the last word of the first sentence was 'night' because I couldn't think of another word that length would follow 'at' as a final word early on. I'd wasted my first two goes on world and war I think but I had a feeling from looking at what turned out to be the 'Society and culture' section that it was a non-literary thing that had a small imprint in the arts and that lone quotation in the subsection above the two books would be something like a children's rhyme. So when 'night' popped up in that, the bed bugs saying leapt out at me.

I'm very much expecting another protist-style blowout today to bring me back down to earth.

#39 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_bug ick!

15 today!

329!

My first solve

Also, perhaps not coincidentally, my first attempt on a desktop computer not a phone

So much for posting ILX's high score lol.

#40 180 / 47%

I really ought to reorient my approach because I think I'm going too specific a lot of the times, which results in a lot of dead-ends. Today, I got stuck on countries and didn't think to try food till 151.

I solved today's Redactle (#40) in 297 guesses with an accuracy of 60.27%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

Annoying as put the plural in guess 130 but didn’t try the singular until 297.

#40
You solved it in 47 guesses
Your accuracy was 70.21%
Globally, 3339 players have solved today's Redactle so far

would've got it 4 guesses earlier if i hadn't spelt it 'desert' by mistake

#40 in 40, 55%.

#40 in 7 world > france > food > life > meal > drink > dessert

might just give up and go home!

#40 in 77 guesses, I think I don't care enough about getting the answer as quickly as possible, because I generally start with categorical type words or really common words just to have more blanks filled in, to have a better sense of the text? Anyway now i am hungry

86 guesses, had some idea it was about food but didn't get dessert until bean then pie.

It's too satisfying to fill in the would could should were etc. filler words to really go for the low numbers.

It's too satisfying to fill in the would could should were etc. filler words to really go for the low numbers.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, May 16, 2022 12:19 PM (twelve minutes ago)

exactly! This is probably why our results tend to be in the same range (except for when you totally get it and I am too dense).
I started guessing food related stuff when I guessed "French" and there were significant results. Like, what are significant things that came from France? ... food