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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

oof 99. for some reason I assumed the two-letter first name meant it was initials, v dumb mistake

68. I should have spent longer thinking of two-letter first names after Bo gave me a bit of red herring, but Ed didn't pop into my head and I started to think it wasn't a two-letter name at all but instead initials like PJ that I'd never guess. I see now that Wikipedia does P.J. Proby at least with the full stops but I don't think it's consistent about this – I'm sure I've seen US done like that rather than U.S. Anyway, excuses excuses.

103 - I guess I had heard of him after all but it didn't spring to mind until I started searching for ethnicities and got "Irish"

95. I don't tend to try and guess it right off the bat by counting numbers and so on. I like chipping away at it bit by bit so that it gradually reveals itself.

4! one to establish gender, one wrong guess of a two-letter first name, then the correct first and last name

71 - got reporter, critic, New York Daily News, etc. but I didn't know Ed Sullivan as anything but a variety show host

373! My growing suspicion that this was going to be the kind of legendary figure that was *not* a household name outside the US proved to be right. Couldn’t identify his job description for the longest time. Only when I got to TV host it dawned on me that it might the guy from the show that Elvis famously performed on. Also assumed it would be a double-initial name, and didn’t think beyond that.

67 admittedly sort of cheated by eventually looking at variety show history despite literally thinking of the answer three minutes earlier. like others i thought the first name had to be initials and i think my brain didn't accept "ed" as a possible answer, it just had to be something stupid like "GK" or "FP" or "EE". i was also stuck on journalism stuff for a while and lucked out with "television" after similar entertainment fields, after guessing "critic."

#62 was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Sullivan

63 I thought I was looking for a specific principality or something within the Holy Roman Empire

geeeez 190... took me until around 80 to narrow it down to being something related to christianity even. the number of hits for catholic made me go down a catholic rabbithole for a while and didn't occur to me for a while to try protestant stuff.

I don't tend to try and guess it right off the bat by counting numbers and so on. I like chipping away at it bit by bit so that it gradually reveals itself.

i find this so much more satisfying, but all of the stats and stuff always push me towards trying to do it quick.

Got it in 4, and it would have been 3 if my stupid oversensitive keyboard hadn't written Christianityy as my first guess.

152 (79.61%) Only noticed the Bible verse notation after guess 98, then I slowly worked my way to the answer

I solved today's Redactle (#63) in 41 guesses with an accuracy of 85.37%.

long.....

5 - took a stab with anglicanism, that got 0 hits so checked i was in the right area with god, protestantism, branches. Took a while to think of another possible branch.

73 - I got lots of hits for very Catholic words so went down the wrong path

a bust. it's even hard to find on wikipedia because the topic is so huge and convoluted. lol, religion

Redactle 27 Church was my first guess and would have had it much not sooner if I’d not thought the word was Lutherianism with two “i”s.

#63 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheranism

I solved today's Redactle (#64) in 90 guesses with an accuracy of 63.33%. Thank you.

#64
You solved it in 60 guesses
Your accuracy was 46.67%
Globally, 3733 players have solved today's Redactle so far

how, tf, was "Drink" 0 hits

102, 62%

142 guesses. To think my first thought when I glanced the intro was “***** tea”, but yeah “drink” and “food” didn’t register at all...

I solved today's Redactle (#64) in 15 guesses with an accuracy of 60.00%.

24, 50.00%. I saw the ____ per _____ bit, tried meter, meter, liter, didn't try litre for another 15 guesses. no hits for water or oil after that, then thought of beer and then wine. wasted another guess on carbonated ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - i also guessed hard and soft for no good reason, no hits even though they are in there.

48 slightly annoyed because my second guess was "drink" with 0 hits

In 36 with unusually low accuracy of 52.78%. Just couldn’t get started on it so ended up throwing lots of filler words that didn’t really help. Finally I started on countries and three goes after France I had it

#64: 160 / 45.63%

One of these days I might try to remember trying FRANCE if I have an inkling that it's a food or drink -- I had absolutely no idea until I was on a meeting today to discuss an app we're calling sugar, and that's what put me on the right track at 96.

#64 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkling_wine