______ the ____________: Redactle

I solved today's Redactle (#52) in 35 guesses with an accuracy of 80.00%. No letter-counting!

got it in 6 though still had to cheat as i'm an ignorant american who can't remember names of european capitals! also originally thought it was a moon and would've stuck with that if there were an 8-lettered planet in our solar system. my first two guesses were "AD" and "BC" because i was surprised to see so many ████ ██ structures... usually if we're talking in BC/AD terms you don't get specific years. so i figured it had to be a city that was well-documented in ancient times (though it turns out most of those years were still estimates). originally assumed something in the middle east or northern africa but "east" and "arabic" only popped up a few times, and i figured "east" would also probably rule out asia. after that it was just a game of finding the right 8-lettered european country

#52 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon

#53
You solved it in 68 guesses
Your accuracy was 52.94%
Globally, 1092 players have solved today's Redactle so far

i had covalent at 38 during my 'try all the chemistry words i know' phase

Redactle #53 in 48 guesses with an accuracy of 64.58%. Chemistry was my first guess but was just settling in for a slog when one of the words I threw at it came good

got it in one, was a bit of a 'here goes nothing'.

68% but I cheated for the 92nd guess at the end because I ran out of chemistry terms remembered from getting a 71 in AP Chemistry 22 years ago - covalent hit early but I can't remember ever reading 'valence' before

in one is quite impressive, so much more so with this than with 'Lisbon'.

47 - I finally remembered what that thing is called

in one is quite impressive, so much more so with this than with 'Lisbon'.

Also in one. Proceeded as if my guess of what in the brackets was correct, and the entire first paragraph made sense.

i took French rather than chemistry because i was already doing 3 sciences. poor decision, 40 years ago...

one of many

#53 was Valence (Chemistry)

#54
You solved it in 9 guesses
Your accuracy was 77.78%
Globally, 979 players have solved today's Redactle so far

76 but I cheated. never took a physics class so i was never gonna get this in a million years.

I gave up on this one, which is maddening because I was on this Wikipedia page recently, possibly because of Redactle. Does anyone remember if a similar answer was featured?

0.020885434273039 pounds per square foot, obv

leee the plasma page used 'Pa' in places

120, 22%, cheated at the end just so I could see how bad my accuracy was

2, damnit! went for ampere first.

Also 2! Because I wanted to make sure my assumption of symbol was correct, and then it was a case of figuring out a six-letter derived SI unit with a two-character symbol - I think there's only this one.

Was confused by the whole where x is blah and y is blah section and it turns out that leads to nothing cos the formula isn't there.

284 guesses this was an "anti-American" puzzle ... now I know how the non-Americans feel with a lot of these ... I spent quite a while on this one and kept guessing "meter" and being frustrated and then baffled

i guessed every single letter of the alphabet

5 - isn't 2 the minimum or are you not counting the word in parentheses?

you don't need to hit the word in brackets to win.

ooooh

Still working on this at 17 guesses. May give up.

Got unit in 1, SI in 9 (not that it helped, but that two letter word was bugging me from the start), pressure in 16 then was sure it was newton but no. I think psi is the only other pressure unit I know

Gave up.

#54 was Pascal_(unit)

i have the redactle yips today

(actually i mea the darts version of the yips, whatever that's called)

Lazarenko's Conundrum.

argh that was meant to be hidden - any mods around?

got fluid dynamics and a bunch of related terms but pretty sure I'm a goner on this one

Second day I gave up and googled. Don't think I'd have ever got that so glad to have saved myself

Got today's in 22. My first stab at "In (5, 8)" was legal parlance but that was fruitless so I hovered around maths and science until I saw what seemed to be Reynolds number down page and bob's your uncle.

automatically clicked on Milo's hidden text having forgotten that I'm not finished. I'm still not finished.

man, another one of *those*?

53 guesses, decently happy with that

218 just chucking sciencey words at it after a while, still fun though. Don't really feel I could have got it much sooner, I didn't miss any obvious (for me) clues.

189! took me 50 guesses to get to physics, which is too many, but by 80 I was swimming in kinetic energy and knew it was a great unsolved problem in physics, neither of which helped.

that was annoying. started again on my phone and it was another form of a word i had 10s of guesses ago, maybe even a spelling error (autocorrect helpful for once!)

'dartitis' is apparently their version of the yips although the -itis is generally an inflammation of something and this is a spasm. made up word.

#55 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbulence

16, 87.5%

kind of a wild card, thought it was going to be immigration across land bridges or something but bridges was a miss

ice bridges

Ha we were thinking along the same lines i tried numerous terms related to bodies of water and adjacent land and structures related to water

#56 98 / 34.69%

Didn't finish yesterday's, but felt a little better getting today's in under 100.

19, 78.95%, my first guess was bridge too. I guessed water at 11 out of the blue really, could've guessed ice a bit quicker i guess but can't complain.