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.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 21:32 (one year ago) link
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!)
― koogs, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 21:50 (one year ago) link
'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.
― koogs, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 21:59 (one year ago) link
#55 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbulence
― koogs, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
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
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
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
― sarahell, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
#56 98 / 34.69%
Didn't finish yesterday's, but felt a little better getting today's in under 100.
― Gianni Fursace (Leee), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
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.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 18:06 (one year ago) link
You solved it in 112 guessesYour accuracy was 42.86%Globally, 4903 players have solved today's Redactle so far
disappointed it wasn't "pot noodles"
― koogs, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 18:58 (one year ago) link
Spoiler, koogs :)
Got there in 12. Something which is a sport, but not always... er, log rolling... fly fishing...
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
99 not much to say I wandered around a lot
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:03 (one year ago) link
Yeah, 105. Water was the key again (a stab in the dark at 101)
― Alba, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:53 (one year ago) link
Any fool know that Wikipedia entry for pot noodles is singular
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_Noodle
― koogs, Thursday, 2 June 2022 03:01 (one year ago) link
i eventually got sport but then ball too which took me in directions that were not relevant. wasted many on countries and compass points.
― koogs, Thursday, 2 June 2022 03:11 (one year ago) link
is everyone getting <=45% silica and produce for free?
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Thursday, 2 June 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
15, with that assist.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Thursday, 2 June 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
start of the second para was the key, should have spotted it more quickly.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Thursday, 2 June 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link
#57 140 / 42.86%
A proposal for terminology:- Golfers: players who try to get the answer in as few guesses as possible- Explorers (or sightseers?): players who like to fill in whole sentences
― Gianni Fursace (Leee), Thursday, 2 June 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
I'm a golfer who was getting warned for slow play so has decided to swing and hope a bit more.
But today: hole in one!
And yes huge unredacted hint in the middle but it was what looked like Year Without A Summer which gave it away.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 2 June 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
oh I saw that but couldn't work it out.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Thursday, 2 June 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link
billy idol kept getting in the way.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Thursday, 2 June 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
#56 was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_skating
#57 in 17 (58%)
― koogs, Thursday, 2 June 2022 17:11 (one year ago) link
81, 38% went too science-y for a bit, I don't think geology hit on this one did it? I keep trying the broadest science terms hoping that just once a chemical process clue will actually have "chemistry" in the text.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 2 June 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
lol yeah I need to stop trying broadly generic terms that inevitably aren't in the text despite being "right" e.g., science or mathematics
― rob, Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
27. Mediocre.
― Alba, Thursday, 2 June 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
45, could have been worse.
― brisk money (lukas), Thursday, 2 June 2022 20:51 (one year ago) link
shut it! xp
21 I thought it was something about space for a bit
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Thursday, 2 June 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link
Now they tell mehttps://i.imgur.com/9t8y6FX.png
― Alba, Friday, 3 June 2022 07:24 (one year ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#57) in 24 guesses with an accuracy of 62.50%.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 3 June 2022 07:55 (one year ago) link
there was a record label about 20 years ago called simple machines and each release was named after one of those 6 things. that helped me.
http://simplemachines.net/machines.html
oh, Jenny toomey
― koogs, Friday, 3 June 2022 08:33 (one year ago) link
14 today - I am not a golfer but estimate par could be around 6?
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Friday, 3 June 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
#57 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano
am slowly getting together a (crude) books version, currently wondering what to do with apostrophes... how does redactle handle 'don't' for instance, is it ##### or ###'#?
― koogs, Friday, 3 June 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#58) in 17 guesses with an accuracy of 70.59%.
Nice, sean!
― Gianni Fursace (Leee), Friday, 3 June 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
#58 in 2. Wasted one go on Africa, really – should have just ploughed in
― Alba, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
8. I'm reluctant to letter count, but it is kind of silly not to sometimes
― rob, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:42 (one year ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#58) in 13 guesses with an accuracy of 61.54%.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 3 June 2022 17:43 (one year ago) link
You solved it in 20 guessesYour accuracy was 65.00%Globally, 5406 players have solved today's Redactle so far
knew is was africa and west but typed those in anyway. guessed nigeria next despite all the 'bordered by' stuff which ruled that out
― koogs, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
Alba, how did you know it was an African country just by looking at it?
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 3 June 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
5, 100% - I counted this time.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 3 June 2022 17:59 (one year ago) link
Did this one in 9. The Arabic As- prefix told me it was a word starting with an S, but none of the Arabic-speaking countries matched the info, so I thought it might be a province or region or something. I thought of the country in question as well, but too swiftly discarded it as non-Arabic speaking at first without checking against the available info, or I would have defo gotten it in 1, I swear. This was an open goal and I blew it!
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Friday, 3 June 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
Anagram - the pattern looked like “ is a country in (east/west) (continent)”. People say eastern/western Europe rather than east/west and there aren’t any other six-letter continents. Plus the list in brackets of alternative names suggested a lot of local languages and the “As-“ also didn’t look like a European language.
― Alba, Friday, 3 June 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
also one of the bordering countries was hyphenated and looked like a match for guinea-bissau. unfortunately my knowledge of the subject at hand isn't that great, had a few wrong guesses, took a couple to confirm my suspicions. then got an assist from my wife for a cheaty 8.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Friday, 3 June 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
Today in 1.
Counting letters in the languages in brackets helped here too.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 3 June 2022 20:38 (one year ago) link
am slowly getting together a (crude) books versionI had this idea, would like to see it done!
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Saturday, 4 June 2022 06:14 (one year ago) link
I've got it tokenizing the source and displaying it as redacted text, based on 3 lists of words (which I've just realised could be two - the list with markup in it and the one with the given words could be the same list). will work on input today.
― koogs, Saturday, 4 June 2022 07:30 (one year ago) link
#58 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal
(ledge, i have sent you ilx mail)
― koogs, Saturday, 4 June 2022 16:26 (one year ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#59) in 46 guesses with an accuracy of 69.57%.
I'm annoyed at myself because I got Frankenstein at 17 following modern which revealed LONG WORD, or the Modern LONG WORD, but kept thinking it was a place instead of a person. I guess even though I'm an explorer, I still have a bit of golfer in me!
― Gianni Fursace (Leee), Saturday, 4 June 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
16 today with my usual golfsploration - I try to think things through a bit but I also enjoy just throwing stuff out there and seeing what happens, the thrill of an unexpected bite is half the fun
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Saturday, 4 June 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link