______ the ____________: Redactle

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.

xp
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

3 - went with Richard at first.

I solved today's Redactle (#44) in 9 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%.

still getting into this game, but pleased with this result

2, disappointed it wasn't fungus the bogeyman

solved #44 in 43 (74.42%)

18 / 77%

Happy any time I get under a hundred guesses, counting the letters probably could've saved me a couple wasted guesses but otherwise a lot easier (for me) today.

21 guesses, 100% accuracy -- Probably the most focused on getting it in the fewest number of guesses than in the past ... my first guess was "great" and it only returned 3 words, so I assumed it was a British person and not a Russian one. then I guessed "war" and it only returned 2 ... then I went with "his" and "he" to determine the gender of the person, and if in fact, it was a person and not a thing or place. Though, at that point, I could have wracked my brain for historical British rulers that didn't go to "war" and only engaged in "battle" (25 results)... I figured I would just guess common names of British royalty ... William, Henry, Edward

4

Wasted one on England!

went with Richard at first.

ah nuts :(

any mod around?

In 2.

English-centric for a change. but these aren't fun. prefer it when it takes about 100.

#44 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Conqueror

#45
You solved it in 3 guesses
Your accuracy was 100.00%
Globally, 755 players have solved today's Redactle so far

wasted one on a word that was obvious

I solved today's Redactle (#45) in 35 guesses with an accuracy of 60.00%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

Back to back days under 100, I think this thread has made me a little more circumspect about filling out some sentences, as well as having a better feel for when the answer is more generalized.

Theory at 2 led me to evolution and biological and I spent several guesses exploring scientific concepts before I entered patent, child, inheritance, and legal.

all the -in-??? stuff was obviously -in-law. then marriage which was in the first paragraph. then the answer

18, 100%

Best yet, still a long way off woof and koogs. I solved today's Redactle (#45) in 15 guesses with an accuracy of 80.00%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

Redactle #45 in 22 with 81% accuracy Bit more fun, koogs!

2! Similar logic to koogs

3 by total luck

just glancing over it i thought it would be related to science, especially with the first sentence starting with "In" which makes me think "In (scientific field or proces), (word) is etc." wasted a guess on "volume," then tried "law" as in "law of physics or whatever," which opened up all the in-laws.

33 guesses the syntax first made me think it was about a game, then it looked like it might be about language and dialect, then i ended up with "one (or more) people" and I guessed the term, not knowing it was the right answer, but because a current project at work is related to how said term is defined for the purpose of zoning and building classifications

23 despite spotting in-law straight away and getting birth and marriage not long after. I blame the two beers I've had.

51 guesses for me. lol at me spending a lot of time guessing every kind of relation i could think of after getting “law” before zooming out for the answer

that 2 up upthread was #44 - same as everyone - lettercounted, picked a sane Something the Something historical figure & checked that it made sense against the text (plausible 'William I' in the first sentence). Completely forgot about Richard the Lionheart/Richard I but I think would have stuck with William after scrutinising the article.

#45 - 1 - very happy with that after a long time looking at it - -in-law was the big clue, which had me humming and hawing over wedding/marriage stuff but reluctant to try a 7 when it felt gettable. Spotted the section that (from the hyphens) seemed to be explaining the rules around 'great-" and "great-grand". Went in on the big topic and hit.

Well done, woof.

Yeah that’s amazing.

(I got it in 40 which I’m happy with considering how long I spent thinking it was something to do with cheese )

same as everyone - lettercounted

You can lettercount on a phone (or at least on an iPhone) as if you were selecting characters to copy and paste)

#45 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family

#46
You solved it in 30 guesses
Your accuracy was 46.67%
Globally, 914 players have solved today's Redactle so far

scattergun approach, tanked the accuracy

I solved today's Redactle (#46) in 150 guesses with an accuracy of 46.67%.

Over a hundred guesses again, feels like coming home. I got animal straight away, but needed a long time to figure out that it was a reptile and a weird comparison to birds didn't help. I knew it was egg laying and that environmental factors help determine sex, so that also sent me down a fishy goose chase. Teeth was what put on the right path, eventually.

i went the dinosaur route, thinking it was icthyosaur or iguanadon (the 'An' meant it started with a vowel). but 'dinosur' was a 0 which threw me. 'United' and then compass directions, didn't help. 'lizard' did.

Redactle in 105 FFS. I'm pretty sure I thought of alligator quite early on but ruled it out when the was zero hits for reptile. I now find there was a single one for reptiles plural