I saw what looked like That Was The Week That Was too but that didn't help me, sadly
― Alba, Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:39 (one year ago) link
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)
― ✖, Thursday, 19 May 2022 22:02 (one year ago) link
it was the list along the lines of "The _____, The _____ and _____ and the _____ _____" that tipped me off
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Thursday, 19 May 2022 22:59 (one year ago) link
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.
― woof, Friday, 20 May 2022 12:57 (one year ago) link
xphaha those lists were just making my smart brain tell my dumb brain 'no, still not CS Lewis'
― woof, Friday, 20 May 2022 12:59 (one year ago) link
2, 100%
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 20 May 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
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
― Alba, Friday, 20 May 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
#43 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl
― koogs, Friday, 20 May 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
#44You solved it in 2 guessesYour accuracy was 100.00%Globally, 1450 players have solved today's Redactle so far
1450 solvers in the 20 minutes it's been live...
― koogs, Friday, 20 May 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link
my first through was Suleiman the Magnificent but I actually counted letters for once
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 20 May 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
3 - went with Richard at first.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 20 May 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
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
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 20 May 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
2, disappointed it wasn't fungus the bogeyman
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Friday, 20 May 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link
solved #44 in 43 (74.42%)
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Friday, 20 May 2022 17:11 (one year ago) link
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.
― Pteredactle (Leee), Friday, 20 May 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
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
― sarahell, Friday, 20 May 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
4Wasted one on England!went with Richard at first.
Wasted one on England!
went with Richard at first.
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Friday, 20 May 2022 20:13 (one year ago) link
ah nuts :(
any mod around?
In 2.
― woof, Saturday, 21 May 2022 14:14 (one year ago) link
English-centric for a change. but these aren't fun. prefer it when it takes about 100.
― koogs, Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:25 (one year ago) link
#44 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Conqueror
― koogs, Saturday, 21 May 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
#45You solved it in 3 guessesYour accuracy was 100.00%Globally, 755 players have solved today's Redactle so far
wasted one on a word that was obvious
― koogs, Saturday, 21 May 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
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.
― Pteredactle (Leee), Saturday, 21 May 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
all the -in-??? stuff was obviously -in-law. then marriage which was in the first paragraph. then the answer
― koogs, Saturday, 21 May 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
18, 100%
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 21 May 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
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/
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 21 May 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
Redactle #45 in 22 with 81% accuracy Bit more fun, koogs!
― Alba, Saturday, 21 May 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
2! Similar logic to koogs
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Saturday, 21 May 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
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.
― ✖, Saturday, 21 May 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
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
― sarahell, Saturday, 21 May 2022 20:00 (one year ago) link
23 despite spotting in-law straight away and getting birth and marriage not long after. I blame the two beers I've had.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Saturday, 21 May 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link
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
― donna rouge, Saturday, 21 May 2022 22:37 (one year ago) link
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.
― woof, Saturday, 21 May 2022 22:45 (one year ago) link
Well done, woof.
― Alba, Sunday, 22 May 2022 06:21 (one year ago) link
Yeah that’s amazing.
― Tim, Sunday, 22 May 2022 07:48 (one year ago) link
(I got it in 40 which I’m happy with considering how long I spent thinking it was something to do with cheese )
― Tim, Sunday, 22 May 2022 07:56 (one year ago) link
same as everyone - lettercounted
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Sunday, 22 May 2022 14:31 (one year ago) link
You can lettercount on a phone (or at least on an iPhone) as if you were selecting characters to copy and paste)
― Alba, Sunday, 22 May 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link
#45 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family
― koogs, Sunday, 22 May 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
#46You solved it in 30 guessesYour accuracy was 46.67%Globally, 914 players have solved today's Redactle so far
scattergun approach, tanked the accuracy
― koogs, Sunday, 22 May 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link
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.
― Pteredactle (Leee), Sunday, 22 May 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
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.
― koogs, Sunday, 22 May 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
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
― Alba, Sunday, 22 May 2022 17:42 (one year ago) link
Got it in a very lucky 1.
― Tim, Sunday, 22 May 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
wow well done! I got it in ten, wasted a few guesses on bird/insect/fish/mammal before I saw the name derivation at the start of the second para - then a couple more trying to guess the language.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Sunday, 22 May 2022 18:23 (one year ago) link
14, which was really just me randomly guessing animals that begin with a vowel
― donna rouge, Sunday, 22 May 2022 18:28 (one year ago) link
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Sunday, 22 May 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
125, 52% - also just started guessing animals with a vowel after I didn’t have much luck narrowing it down via territory
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 22 May 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
pretty sure I’m far from the only one who doesn’t do lettercounting - not possible on a phone anyway, and I’m actually fine with not having this as an extra factor/helpline while playing this game.filling in the gaps by using logical and strategic thinking (or just dumb word bombing lol) and getting closer to the solution slowly but surely is much more my idea of fun.― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Sunday, May 22, 2022 7:31 AM (four hours ago)
yes! <3
#46 -- 141 guesses -- I struggled with this one because the word reptile doesn't appear at all in the article, along with other words one would assume to be found or found more prominently in a wikipedia article about the subject
― sarahell, Sunday, 22 May 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link