______ the ____________: Redactle

I like the time function on RU - play for accuracy, play for fewest guesses, play for quickest time.

really I just play to solve, don’t care about any of the metrics

Re: yesterday's, I got religion in my second (lucky) guess but got no further and ran out of time, what was it?

Ancient Celtic Religion

Let's see if I can write this post without it becoming autocorrect soup again: I just found out that you can long touch or right click on a redacted block and RU will pop up an annotation menu that lets you enter in text that will then show up in the body without it counting as a guess (though neither will it reveal that block).

I guess another way of describing that is that it's like the pencil feature of online sudoku.

130: I solved Redactle Unlimited in 115 guesses with an accuracy of 49.57% and a time of 00:37:36.

I really should've looked more closely at the person's name, which would've saved me dozens of guesses as tried every inhabited, non-Australian continent before landing in the Middle East.

Yay! I solved Redactle Unlimited in 26 guesses with an accuracy of 73.08%. Yes, it was clear it was a person, probably a politician (even though that turned out to be a zero-hit guess), from the Arab world. Decided to start from Egypt, which gave me more than enough to work with.

#129 was https://redactle-unlimited.com/#g/en-Q263031
which i'm still playing. weekends, eh?

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 41 guesses with an accuracy of 51.22% and a time of 00:19:56.
dismal.

#129 answer was ancient Celtic religion

cheated in the end although i had the bones of it

131: I solved Redactle Unlimited in 103 guesses with an accuracy of 44.66% and a time of 00:11:59. Spent a couple dozen guesses trying to figure out the author of what seemed like a YA or children's story, but then father -> mother -> sex led me pretty quickly to the right answer.

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100% and a time of 00:24:08. Play at https://redactle-unlimited.com

wasn't sure what the 14 letter word was but had the sense of something philosophical or psychological or religious, then I saw what looked like id and ego.

#130 was https://redactle-unlimited.com/#g/en-Q34211 (unsolved as yet)
#131 is https://redactle-unlimited.com/#g/en-Q131246

(130 was yasser arafat)

132: I solved Redactle Unlimited in 36 guesses with an accuracy of 63.89% and a time of 00:03:03.

132. I solved Redactle Unlimited in 10 guesses with an accuracy of 80% and a time of 20:55:00. Play at https://redactle-unlimited.com

thought this was going to be another "I know what it is but I don't know what it is".

#132 is https://redactle-unlimited.com/#g/en-Q963

i am now 2 solutions behind...

133: I solved Redactle Unlimited in 1 guesses with an accuracy of 100% and a time of 00:00:12.

My first hole in one!

first hole in one here too! still using classic like a rube, but probably took me just a little longer than you!

18 seconds for me, I thought someone might be quicker!

#131 (monday) was https://redactle-unlimited.com/#g/en-Q131246 oedipus complex - 78 guesses with 46.15% accuracy and a time of 47:16:55! (lol)

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 50% and a time of 00:00:45. Play at https://redactle-unlimited.com

Thought it was Pi at first, but reading it pretty obvious was a mountain.

#132 (tuesday) was https://redactle-unlimited.com/#g/en-Q963 botswana
- 81 guesses with 67.9% accuracy and a time of 11:12:40!

#133 is https://redactle-unlimited.com/#g/en-Q43512 k2

2 guesses with 50% accuracy and a time of 00:44:14!

went with 'io' after seeing the title...

134 in 7. Guessed it was an Italian painter, tintoretto and caravaggio the first two that came to mind. then wasn't sure I'd get his first name but pulled it out of somewhere.

got today's in 79, threw myself off because "artist" didn't give me much -- didn't expect "painter" for the primary listed occupation. once i got his last name, i cheated because i couldn't remember his first name and had already guessed a few wrong italian first names

#134 is https://redactle-unlimited.com/#g/en-Q5669 Sandro Botticelli

got second word in 61 but i wouldn't've got the first word in about 100 years

135: I solved Redactle Unlimited in 225 guesses with an accuracy of 68.89% and a time of 00:19:05.

135 in 48, took me five guesses to get philosophy, another 41 to get political - too fixated on actual philosophy.

#135 was https://redactle-unlimited.com/#g/en-Q178598

#136 is https://redactle-unlimited.com/#g/en-Q33196

136 - 18/20 in 32 seconds

and absolute dumb luck with the word at 20 - got female, birth and human and thought maybe embryo would get me closer to the correct word

20 guesses in 32 seconds seems astonishingly fast! I got it in 14 and more than a few minutes of thinking time, i wasted a lot of guesses on every five letter ordinal for the fifth word in the first sentence.

137: I solved Redactle Unlimited in 72 guesses with an accuracy of 52.78% and a time of 00:11:35. I think I was pretty fortunate here because I guessed Prince Edward earlier (PEI being the only Canadian island I could name), so I was primed to try other British royals.

#137 was https://redactle-unlimited.com/#g/en-Q216533 queen elizabeth islands

44 guesses with 52.27% accuracy and a time of 02:02:14!

was focussing on a paragraph in the middle and didn't realise i had 2/3rds of the title already...

I've been getting lazy, cheated on yesterday's after getting island in one and guessing Canada not long after. Then got today's in 18 after setting off at a canter, I think a hole in one would be possible though.

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 35 guesses with an accuracy of 77.14% and a time of 00:13:17.

138 - 19/29, 2:03

Paris was my second hit and I thought I was looking for a church or district in Paris for a few guesses

138: I solved Redactle Unlimited in 74 guesses with an accuracy of 59.46% and a time of 00:08:32.

#138 https://redactle-unlimited.com/#g/en-Q2946
#139 https://redactle-unlimited.com/#g/en-Q124072

i do plan on coming back and solving all these, but i'm not sure when

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 1 guesses with an accuracy of 100% and a time of 00:25:02. Play at https://redactle-unlimited.com

I saw round as a noun and references to World Wars I & II, it was the first five letter weapon I thought of.

139: I solved Redactle Unlimited in 229 guesses with an accuracy of 42.36% and a time of 00:27:59. For the longest time I was focused on sports because I got bunch of hits for ball/balls, and even when I tried bullet, I kept thinking of sport shooting, before I started zoom out a bit.

140: I solved Redactle Unlimited in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 100% and a time of 00:00:42.

Am I turning into a golfer?!?

Well done! I got it in 7, couldn't decide between Franco or Austro or something else entirely, guess I'm not so good with pre 20th century wars.

You solved Redactle Unlimited in 8 guesses with 100% accuracy and a time of 00:01:02!

#140 was https://redactle-unlimited.com/#g/en-Q46083 Franco-Prussian War

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 17 guesses with an accuracy of 94.12% and a time of 02:33:30.

Prussian war didn't narrow in down much. hits for austro- and danish- before settling on the answer

my time is terrible because it was spread between two bouts of thunder induced insomnia

To answer my question: no, I am not a golfer.

141: I solved Redactle Unlimited in 60 guesses with an accuracy of 26.67% and a time of 00:05:29. Like I always do, I chased down math terms to a very dead end, before biology put me on the right track.

141: I solved Redactle Unlimited in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100% and a time of 00:01:14.

damn, if I'd got yesterday's that would finally have been three in a row!

#141 is https://redactle-unlimited.com/#g/en-Q38348

i am nowhere, certainly not a hole-in-one