______ the ____________: Redactle

5, 100% - I counted this time.

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!

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.

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.

Today in 1.

Counting letters in the languages in brackets helped here too.

am slowly getting together a (crude) books version

I had this idea, would like to see it done!

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.

#58 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal

(ledge, i have sent you ilx mail)

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!

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

57, 84.21%

'English poet and ?' - wasted guesses on critic and essayist - early but it took a bit to work out era

45 today. Went barking up the wrong tree thinking it was someone ancient after getting Greek early on

my thought process: after I got "poet", the very beginning ██████ ██████ █████, ███ █████ █████ before the birth/death dates made me think of some kind of nobility so I had a go at "Lord" and boom

hope this works

# Guess Hits
16 byron 246
15 lord 39
14 spring 1
13 poet 11
12 africa 0
11 french 3
10 russian 0
9 book 6
8 music 1
7 mime 0
6 german 0
5 america 1
4 king 3
3 author 2
2 actor 0
1 broadway 0

in 28 for me

This one was pretty quick: saw the (_____:) and tried French, Latin, then Greek. Then Greece, then ancient, which yielded nothing, then modern, which gave me Frankenstein, and that + Greece got me to Byron. Still took me 20 guesses because I threw some random words in there at first instead of thinking it out.

Solved it in 9, guessed "John" as the first name, thought it might be some kind of ruler and tried "king" and then "lord," my feeling around in the dark strategy worked pretty well.

Got there in 7; first guess was poet, figured it was full name, honorific/noble title but got slightly diverted by the dual language transliteration thing - thought it might be Persian or Chinese in which case I would have been clueless. But, duh, nationality started with a vowel so shouldn't have got distracted.

Got it in two! First thoughts were foreign royalty but scrolling through it became clear they were probably a writer, went back to the top and 'poet' looked likely, possibly 'english', and then it just came to me. To be clear this flash of inspiration came after 'reading' the thing for probably half an hour all told.

(ledge, i have sent you ilx mail)

thanks, will take a look when I get on actual computer, probably on monday!

on 96 guesses and struggling due to lack of domain knowledge. confused at the start of the first paragraph. will sleep on it.

(book version is pretty much working as long as you don't want to win because i've not written that part yet. might put a link up tomorrow. unlike(?) redactle i do need to prepare the game files (typically extracting one chapter per book), but am trying to make that as easy as possible, 2 minutes each kind of job. i have about 2 months worth downloaded but needing editing.)

???? ????? "poet and ????". but not iain banks, ezra pound, john keats or pamm ayres... absolutely no idea of time period...

The ???? after 'and poet' totally threw me. Maybe doing it on a phone yesterday didn't help but I never got the sense of that first par that might have led me in the direction of the aristocracy

I solved today's Redactle (#60) in 1 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%. Après moi, le déluge

#59 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron

was too late getting back to it so, fail here.

I joined the 1 club too!

I solved today's Redactle (#60) in 1 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

Knew it began with a vowel and had 4 letters, the hidden characters with subscripts indicated a chemical. Voila.

Redactle #60 in 1 yep!

#60
You solved it in 29 guesses
Your accuracy was 65.52%
Globally, 2856 players have solved today's Redactle so far

started off well with 'atom' but went physics rather than chemistry

(my book version is here: http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/bookish/index.html if you're curious. it isn't finished, am currently working on making it so you can press enter and not have to press the button. it's probably very simple...

if you go to http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/bookish/games.html there are links to 4 previous puzzles (one of the things i don't like about redactle))

i'll make another thread for bug reports etc somewhere, save cluttering up this thread

^ Bookish. it's like redactle but for books. beta testing / bugs etc

One here too.

Got Bookish 0605 in 3, which was absurdly lucky. (If this popped up on another thread, sorry!)

Ah yes I see now there’s a separate Bookish thread. I like it!

#60 in 6 - my guesses didn't help that much, it just didn't click till i started typing some words in.

#60 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid

5 today, my best ever.

#61: 56 / 69.64%

Nice whenever I get it in fewer guesses than the puzzle number. I did go on a bit of a wild goose chase when China gave me 7 hits, at which point I thought it was an Asian country, but when Pacific was a total miss, I realized I had to go to a different continent.

i need to read more maps

Redactle #61 in 23 (69.57%)

Got today's in 4; my best yet, I think!

14. I did think at first I was looking for five letters, and Egypt was my initial guess, but just couldn't bring Angola to mind

3 to figure out I need a six letter West African country and then... well it's not my strong suit.

it turns out that even with a map it takes me three attempts because even though i know it's Western and coastal my first two attempts are zambia and malawi which are neither

I solved today's Redactle (#61) in 7 guesses with an accuracy of 57.14%.

#61 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola

I solved today's Redactle (#62) in 22 guesses with an accuracy of 63.64%.

Got it in 2 - American entertainer of some kind (despite singer/writer/actor not fitting, turned out to be creator) with a two letter first name.

there goes my theory that it's america specific. struggling to think of two letter first names...

whoa 2. my first perfecto?? opened a notepad and wrote as many 2 letter first names as i could. saw the first full name was six letters so narrowed it down to Ed or Al. guessed right, then tried to think of an Ed with an 8 letter surname (thankfully checked myself before writing mcmahon)

oh my second perfecto. i got red sea in 2 as well i guess