______ the ____________: Redactle

i'm guessing the smoking gun is "a-____" but i can't think of what that could be other than "team"

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i can't see an easy way of looking back at previous puzzles, not even what they were,

If you've completed them in the browser you're in, you can go to Stats in the menu.

yeah but multiple devices and multiple fails

I solved today's Redactle (#42) in 4 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%.

Guess who miscounted the number of letters in health

#41 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skirt

#41
You solved it in 28 guesses
Your accuracy was 57.14%
Globally, 1679 players have solved today's Redactle so far

^ #42

Three!

All that stuff about Round and round was very perplexing but I just went with the most obvious 12-letter word to find in such a context and that was that. The Round stuff still doesn't mean anything to me!

I solved today's Redactle (#42) in 17 guesses with an accuracy of 64.71%.

4, bloody American spellings.

72, 52.78 -wasted so many guesses with usual filler

9. My first word was organisation, my last word was… organization.

5 guesses. should have been 4, thought it was cute to try “golf” for my second guess

I solved today's Redactle (#42) in 106 guesses with an accuracy of 51.89%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

Caught out by UK spelling, if I’d done US spelling would have got it in 48.

-ise is uk, no? i am and thats what i use.

I did the same as Mike T above, though considerably slower.

6 - I tried united and health along the way

(and Switzerland for fun)

the other day i was feeling a little annoyed with myself over how long these all seem to be taking me to solve and how i couldn’t figure out how so many of you were solving it in fewer than 10 guesses

then i got today’s in 4 lol

got it in 9. first two guesses were "world" and "organization" and then i tortured myself trying to figure out the middle word. capitalized "round" really threw me for a loop. eventually just started guessing topics that would've been relevant on a global scale around WWII.

speaking of "round" man i wish the dev would update the common word list. i have no idea why random words like that are sometimes included while the different tenses of "is" still aren't. but the dev has now been completely AWOL from socials for over a month now so i don't have much hope for that

ran off with all that sweet Redactle _______

The site has ads now(?) so he's doing *some* work on it, so yeah, the lack of QOL improvements is a little annoying.

Yeah I was originally thinking "not gonna whine too much because maybe he died or something" and then I saw he added ads lol

#42 in 17 - the round stuff distracted me into sport & tv for a bit but got there in the end

I don't mind some of the flakiness, like where the bad redaction gives you clues (dim flattering sense that you would definitely have cracked Enigma), but there's definitely weird stuff around ('hz' not hitting as Will M said upthread; I'm still a bit bothered by saints not hitting saints' but I can see how unredacting apostrophes could be awkward).

Right at the start I would have wanted plurals (or -s appended forms) for free; now, that feels like part of the game and I don't want it.

I do like how (in its limited way) Redactle supports different playing styles - some people count letters, some don't; some people stare at the board for 5 minutes before typing their first word, some people dive right in and feel their way around.

#42 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Organization with a 'z'

some people dive right in and feel their way around

Speaking of which: I solved today's Redactle (#43) in 321 guesses with an accuracy of 63.55%. I spent a hundred guesses trying to uncover a film career, but once I got to author, I still had a hard time -- no hits for genre/genres, not a modernist, etc. -- and at one point I started guessing common men's names in English, which, given the answer, LOL. I needed children (@319 with 23 hits) to finally get me there.

Solved this one in 11. figured from all the italics that it had to be a writer, guessed British, and his was one of the first short names I could think of.

123, 73% - got science fiction and fantasy writer pretty early but I only know Dahl from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

took my sweet time feeling and filling my way around and got it in 148 guesses with an accuracy of 81.76% (highest accuracy since Streep’s perfect 100)

Got there in 8. I spotted That Was The Week That Was buried in there, and thought this is a heck of an entry for Frank Muir or Peter Cook. I did try (half) the latter though!

#43
You solved it in 10 guesses
Your accuracy was 90.00%
Globally, 4294 players have solved today's Redactle so far

went for early glory with Marco...

United is a handy word, given that it matches States or Kingdom. both here...

all that time mike has spent watching Tales of the Unexpected has finally paid off...

20, 85% - I spotted that was the week that was but that was the clue that was no help; guessing 'world' gave me (danny) the (champion) of the world.

#43 in 23 guesses with an accuracy of 91.30%

my first time counting letters, which definitely was the key here

took my sweet time feeling and filling my way around and got it in 148 guesses with an accuracy of 81.76% (highest accuracy since Streep’s perfect 100)

― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Thursday, May 19, 2022 10:59 AM (one hour ago)

similar -- 156 guesses, 87% accuracy

2!

Nice one!

I did it in 9. Novelist > British > poet > war > novel > e > India > Roald > Dahl

I saw what looked like That Was The Week That Was too but that didn't help me, sadly

got it in 53 took me way too long to remember children's literature is a thing. however i am proud that i could see "He served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War" without guessing anything, which makes me feel very smart. (though i did guess "royal" to be sure)

it was the list along the lines of "The _____, The _____ and _____ and the _____ _____" that tipped me off

oh nice seandalai - chaotic 13 here - spotted 'That was the week that was' in there & took an initial punt on Peter Cook (Probably not US-famous enough to be a sensible guess?), then ground it out. Lucky even on 13 tbh - I was puzzling out '_____-_____ writer' in the definition and thought 'young-adult???' which pointed me to the answer. It was 'short-story writer', of course.

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haha those lists were just making my smart brain tell my dumb brain 'no, still not CS Lewis'

2, 100%

In 3! Wasted one on England! For some reason my mind went Ethelred the Unready … Alexander the Great … Ming the Merciless … Conan the Barbarian err, now I’m stuck let’s stick something in

#43 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl

#44
You solved it in 2 guesses
Your accuracy was 100.00%
Globally, 1450 players have solved today's Redactle so far

1450 solvers in the 20 minutes it's been live...

my first through was Suleiman the Magnificent but I actually counted letters for once