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6! Felt good about that until I read seandalai’s post.

just kidding, feels very good. got lucky, tried “music” first - gotta start somewhere - got 1 hit, and then “video” looked like it might be worth a shot

#84 56 / 58.93%

14 for me, got the first word in ten then took ridiculously long for the penny to drop.

35, got way into the weeds early with displays and connector types and stuff, which is funny because i didn't get the word 'video' until the last word... so dumb

3.

It was over-the-top which was the key for me.

52, fussed around with construction, farming, home appliance type guesses for awhile due to all the "through the", "via the", "inside of the" type stuff that was revealed until "man" gave me "___-man" and it was over quick

It was [show hidden text] which was the key for me.

wow :) I have no idea how one makes that connection, but super impressive!

(my 5 was mostly luck)

oh my days

#84
You solved it in 92 guesses
Your accuracy was 63.04%
Globally, 16349 players have solved today's Redactle so far
Global Median: 87.00 Guesses; 52.51% Accuracy
Global Average: 113.65 Guesses; 54.19% Accuracy

4! happy enough

#84 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console

I got the first word in one guess. 29 guesses later I have most of the first paragraph but still little clue about the rest of the actual title.

New styling? Also their SSL(?) cert needs renewing or something.

Had to cheat for the last word thought it was something sciencey then figured out math, no idea how I would have gotten to fundamental without cheating

Reloading the page the CSS loads back in.

#85 51 / 68.63%

46, 73.91%. guesses 2-44 were almost entirely redundant.

#85 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_algebra

i swapped devices halfway through. got it in 10 (on the second device)

(and in 3 on the third device!)

In 3 today. But another article broken by the content of the source - in this case, a table with photos.

I'm getting ssl errors today.

#86 77 / 19.48%

Nice that I got it in < 100 but oof, that accuracy.

I'm also getting errors. Booooo.

you can go to it in http instead of https if you're not concerned that they might be STEALING YOUR DATA.

11, happy with that considering I had no clue when I started guessing. no table of photos visible on my phone! I guessed the first word more or less by chance and that opened it up enough.

60 - just assumed it was science initially and wasted a bunch of guesses

Ledge: after I solved it, I noticed the List of current XXX-XXXXX XXXXXs was just a heading, so I checked the real article and it was in the form of a table with smiling dictators so I guess Redactle completely omits that.

late start but

#86
You solved it in 9 guesses
Your accuracy was 66.67%
Globally, 11447 players have solved today's Redactle so far
Global Median: 61.00 Guesses; 28.57% Accuracy
Global Average: 78.09 Guesses; 32.72% Accuracy

went to bed last night having guessed 0 guesses but thinking it was 5-7 7 and not 3-5 5 so that didn't help

#86 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-party_state

#87
You solved it in 2 guesses
Your accuracy was 100.00%
Globally, 854 players have solved today's Redactle so far
Global Median: 50.00 Guesses; 55.56% Accuracy
Global Average: 70.22 Guesses; 58.43% Accuracy

Well done - 23 for me.

I expect your first guess was my 22nd - tool.

it was. and was redundant, really. why pick words you KNOW are in there?

hammerdrill was my first idea. would there be such a page though?

lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_drill

#87 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screwdriver

Today in 15. I went a bit too specific after guessing first go the adjective form of the second half of the title. Briefly baffled when spectroscopy filled in most of a paragraph by itself.

185 and counting, am spending most of my time now guessing things i guessed two hours ago)

(4th attempt at posting this. two requests to login, one blank page)

got the second word in two, exhausted my knowledge of different types of chemistry three or four guesses later. over 100 more guesses and the first para is still almost entirely opaque.

i cheated.

chemistry @ guess 237. fml

wtf, has the article changed? i swear i had an entire sentence from the first paragraph revealed and now it's not there

something like "is the combination of art and science" but i'm only getting a 1 on 'art' now, for the 'state-of-the-art' thing

#88
You solved it in 275 guesses
Your accuracy was 48.36%
Globally, 3362 players have solved today's Redactle so far
Global Median: 62.00 Guesses; 51.05% Accuracy
Global Average: 87.93 Guesses; 52.44% Accuracy

and i was right about the changes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Analytical_chemistry&diff=1096328559&oldid=1092671594

I solved today's Redactle (#88) in 270 guesses with an accuracy of 46.67%. silly of me, I had the big-scoring “analysis” at 141, but somehow forgot to take the logical next step

ha ha, koogs, 🤝 - beat you by 5 tho!

Koogs - did you switch devices? I'm surprised if Redactle mirrors edits made during the 24hr that article is the source, I would've thought it was a static snapshot. This is hard enough without a moving target!

yeah, that puzzled me too but i did navigate away accidentally and then back again so it probably happened then.

i mean, what are the chances? (i wonder if the uptick in traffic is noticeable? also, i have been tempted to edit a page after seeing it in redactle, albeit only to fix broken links. unfortunately my isp is blocked until 2024...)

#88 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_chemistry

I solved today's Redactle (#89) in 183 guesses with an accuracy of 52.46%.

I solved today's Redactle (#89) in 280 guesses with an accuracy of 43.57%.

43 guesses, 41.68%. my more or less random guess of writing at 39 was the key.

346 and none the wiser as to what it could be, going down some dead ends.