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
xp milo -- I got to the answer the same way tbh i guessed otter, just because it started with a vowel, even though I was pretty certain it was not an otter
― sarahell, Sunday, 22 May 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
Amazing, Tim - a nice one to get in 1.
#46 in 18 - played myself in a similar way to alba and others - probably animal, 9 letters, starts with a vowel (almost certainly a, judging by the latin names), 2 species. That did make me think alligator, but 'reptile' getting nothing threw me (and going for that confirmation doesn't even makes sense… because my next guess would be alligator, so why not just guess that?). f'ed around with mammals and plants and fungi and armadillos before going back to the right answer in faint desperation.
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)
Ah I've been finding the fun in the period before the first guess - assembling the evidence, looking for clues, straining to construe chunks that almost make sense, trying to work out what I know and what I need to know, weighing up a showboat get-it-in-one concrete guess against finding out more. It is a bit more relaxing once I've blown a single-figure win tho.
― woof, Sunday, 22 May 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
109 but the journey was fun
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Sunday, 22 May 2022 23:44 (one year ago) link
#46 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator
― koogs, Monday, 23 May 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#47) in 118 guesses with an accuracy of 54.24%.
Another physics one, and I was afraid I wasn't going to get it. I did notice that "and/or" gets rendered as a single word, which kind of sucks.
― Pteredactle (Leee), Monday, 23 May 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link
#47You solved it in 25 guessesYour accuracy was 84.00%Globally, 2445 players have solved today's Redactle so far
surprised it's that high tbh. maybe the weekend numbers are just lower.
― koogs, Monday, 23 May 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
yeah, physics, because of the frequencies. but went back to old favourite words after getting nowhere. 'one' of the '????' -> 'one of the four' ... 'states of matter'.
― koogs, Monday, 23 May 2022 17:14 (one year ago) link
15, 80% - no on solid, liquid… glad it was plasma because I can’t remember the fourth state of matter
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 23 May 2022 17:26 (one year ago) link
Redactle #47 in 1. Now I can retire.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 23 May 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
#47 in 7 - pretty happy - the pressure and frequency clues had me poking around elements and chemistry, but then tried 'physics', suspecting rightly that it might give me the bracketed clarifier in the title. Tried 'matter' thinking it was some particle but that gave me enough of the the first sentence & then eliminated liquid based on how it seemed to be explaining it later. Thinking more, I was aiming for the end of the opening sentence with 'matter'… but if I strongly suspected that, I should have stopped and spotted a) no plausible place for 'particle/s' b) a plausible 'states' just before it.
― woof, Monday, 23 May 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
damn michael nice 🎉
― woof, Monday, 23 May 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
> Redactle #47 in 1.
b-but it was two words
― koogs, Monday, 23 May 2022 17:37 (one year ago) link
> the fourth state of matter gas?
― koogs, Monday, 23 May 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
Yeah, the second word is the disambiguation so it auto-filled once I got the main. Didn't expect it to!
Not sure why mTorr wasn't redacted but that was the giveaway for me.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 23 May 2022 17:42 (one year ago) link
never heard of mTorr! 24 for me, wasted too many speculative guesses at the start, then was getting somewhere with pressure, volume, etc, before trying 'four' in the opening sentence which gave it away.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Monday, 23 May 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
I didn’t solve Redactle in 645 guesses because I decided to just google the fourth state of matter. pretty sure it wouldn’t have come to me before my bedtime after having thrown everything physics-related I could think of at the wall (iow very little). I mean, if you can’t solve this thing with about 80% of the text unlocked…
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Monday, 23 May 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link
apart from mTorr kHz was also unredacted. weird glitches in the system!
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Monday, 23 May 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link
#47 in 6
― Alba, Monday, 23 May 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
#47 was Plasma (Physics)
― koogs, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
#48 ??? ???You solved it in 2 guessesYour accuracy was 100.00%Globally, 735 players have solved today's Redactle so far
― koogs, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
109 for me
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
didn’t have a clue about anything whatsoever until I got to *Six* Day War at guess 101, after that it was a done deal
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 16:45 (one year ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#48) in 24 guesses with an accuracy of 75.00%.
― Pteredactle (Leee), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link