______ the ____________: Redactle

(removes bookmark from wordle thread...)

I kinda like this, I'm no good at Semantle but I give up quickly, this feels like I'm seeing at least some progress in my guesses.

Yeah it I think it might be my favourite of all the time wastles, feels like more of a comprehensive brain workout than semantle. Or maybe it just hasn't lost its novelty value yet.

yeah, I think either the novelty will fade or I'll build up enough anxiety about getting it quickly that it will become painfully tense and I will quit. But for now it's a really entertaining challenge every day.

33 ?????? 83 57.83%

um...

really not sure why you get global stats some times and not others.

#33 in 46 @ 58.70% insect by 26, but wasn't really properly on it till I added the plural at 35. Annoying run of cricket/grasshopper/locust at 41-3 (after seeing title "The x and the ant"), where my brain should have been trying to get the thing like that with 6 letters… but they aren't very present in my UK English taxonomy of the world. Also, I think I head for myth/legend/folklore too early & get a bit lost there.

I think it can just take ages for stats to load? I didn't have them and just looked again and there they are.

I kinda like this, I'm no good at Semantle but I give up quickly, this feels like I'm seeing at least some progress in my guesses.

Same.

@koogs I think it might be because you solved it too quickly? The global averages change over the day, and you can keep refreshing the page to see them change (usually up).

Anyway, #33 90 / 49%.

117 in and I don't know any other kinds of insects :(

31 despite forgetting my usual guess of species. Guessing year and life gave me '__- year life _____' - obviously 'cycle', thx old bbc nature documentaries.

> they aren't very present in my UK English taxonomy of the world. i felt this as well. and i think i threw away the same three things you did, and a bunch of others, because of it

163, 80% accuracy - knew it was an insect early on but a side bit of fun is seeing how many words I can fill in rather than just going for low score.

A gruelling 375, but Kevin gave me the final guess. It’s one of his strongest fields of knowledge. Also learned how a certain long standing ILXor got their name.

#33 in 167 with 56% accuracy, what a slog. Was thrown off by the cultural sections and didn't get it was something in nature till I got species at 116

37 guesses / 56.76% weirdly figured this out after trying "ant" and finding "the ______ and the ant" in the text, which I know by it's French title. Then took me a minute to remember what "Cigale" is in English

121 not much to say really

I'm well into 200 guesses and have obviously stumbled into what type of thing this is, but I really don't think i'm going to get the actual word. I have no idea at all.

I started playing this yesterday, and didn't understand the rules entirely -- I thought you had to fill in all the blanks in order to win -- so I was surprised when I guessed one word and the game was over.

yes pretty much how my first play was too

re yesterdays puzzle, just seen the answer, nope would not have got that ever

Congratulations, you solved Redactle #34!
You solved it in 50 guesses
Your accuracy was 66.00%
Globally, 313 players have solved today's Redactle so far

I solved today's Redactle (#34) in 72 guesses with an accuracy of 51.39%.

had "species" and "origin", which uncovered a mention of "Origin of the Species" somewhere near the bottom, which led me to the answer

#34 434 / 48%

silverfish, I had that too but I didn't think laterally enough to make the connection, and my first 200 guesses were in the realms of medicine and technology -- my guess of television at 65 was a total red herring.

69 today, 127 yesterday - got totally thrown by all the stuff about songs

140 today, a right shambles.

33 today, species lead to Darwin lead to Beagle in quick succession once I got species

This has become part of my post-work routine now, when really I should be out getting some exercise or something.

I started with #13 (prophesy vs prophecy argh), so I've solved 22 now, with an average of 41.3 guesses. Never better than Meryl, never worse than College of Cardinals.

50 today - also taken down the wrong path. I forget that dogs can be popular too.

it's always annoying when Redactle accepts a misspelled word, not that that accounted for more than one of my 176 tries today :(

#34 in 56, pretty happy with that.

#34 in 73, not entirely happy. I mean I remember the moment early on when I looked at my dog sitting beside me and thought 'I will type dog' then thought 'no, don't do that, wasted blind guess, just try animals instead'. Thought I was looking for something geographical/territorial till then and only really locked on when I properly noticed what looked like 'origin of the species' down in the popcult list. That still just made me think about dogs and not the name of the ship…

I solved today's Redactle (#34) in 216 guesses with an accuracy of 56.48%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

My first Redactle, darn close to my average Semantle ugh. Fun though.

#35 in 2.

wtf

Got it in 28, with only three zero guesses.

#35
You solved it in 76 guesses
Your accuracy was 81.58%
Globally, 1732 players have solved today's Redactle so far

i think Cicadas was a bit too american-leaning also

Finished punching the air, jumping on tables, spraying room with tesco prosecco

Basically saw ****-***** in the first sentence and thought it looked a lot like it could be 'city-state'. Confirmed with 'state', then it was just figuring out a 9-letter city state that would get a really, really, really long article.

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I dunno - I think it's just UK/Ireland that has no truck with cicadas - they are, as I learned from the article, just about everywhere fucking else.

(Apologies to the New Forest Cicada, our one native species, again, as I learned from the article)

I solved today's Redactle (#35) in 36 guesses with an accuracy of 83.33%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

I solved today's Redactle (#35) in 17 guesses with an accuracy of 76.47%. No triple digits for me today!

#35
You solved it in 51 guesses
Your accuracy was 84.31%

-- I am better at this than Semantle

Amazing woof! I saw city-state but only after guesting world, countries, asia, country, and crucially island. In total 11 guesses, 100% accuracy.

Good work, woof! I got there in 5.

crap, sorry for spoilers in my post. don't scroll up if you haven't got it yet!

10 here. My kind of Redactle.

happy with 8, knew someone here would beat it

I don't do the letter-counting thing but I'm not sure why I wasted a guess on Luxembourg which isn't even a city-state

I thought it was city-state but didn't guess that right away because I've been burned every single time that's what I thought it was. Played myself.

looks quite intimidating does this, will have to give it a try.

you only have to get the title. but that can still take you 100s of guesses

https://www.reddit.com/r/Redactle/comments/ukobfu/a_very_hacky_method_to_play_past_random_and/

so googling chains of revealed words to find the source isn't cheating - it doesn't seem so bad now!

never heard of her.

I solved Redactle #889 in 46 guesses with an accuracy of 65.2% and a time of 00:24:49.

absolutely no idea, complete scattergun approach till finally i uncovered '... of the night. what music they make!'

I solved Redactle #889 in 63 guesses with an accuracy of 58.7% and a time of 00:27:45.

I solved Redactle #889 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:04:01.

Saw something in the third paragraph which looked like "... in ____ with the publication of "The ______" by ____ _______" and that got me thinking on the right lines

I solved Redactle #890 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:06:07.

back on familiar territory, but this one was satisfying. a coastal city, its country’s capital but less than a million inhabitants, and also big in IT? there is a match in Europe, which would make sense, so let’s try that one then

I solved Redactle #890 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:04:11. First 7-letter capital of a7-letter country I thought of - I bet there are many more.

A quick glance suggests Algiers and Tbilisi are the only others

i thought about the answer but then forgot i thought about the answer so put some other guesses in.

I solved Redactle #891 in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:06:54.

thought sports, guessed the last word right, got the sport right (confirmed by the countries in play), and the first word followed suit

I solved Redactle #891 in 4 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:14:46.

I thought sport too but tried 'american' as the first word.

I solved Redactle #891 in 9 guesses with an accuracy of 66.7% and a time of 00:16:29. I was convinced the first word was European.

I solved Redactle #892 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:05:29.

The —— and -, hmmmm… We had this one (or one relating to this topic) before, I remember getting it thru this very same clue

I solved Redactle #892 in 7 guesses with an accuracy of 42.9% and a time of 00:04:43.

don't remember this one. just tried eight letter countries till I got close (9 hits for cambodia).

I solved Redactle #893 in 9 guesses with an accuracy of 88.9% and a time of 00:10:33.

lol, too close to home, I guess

I solved Redactle #893 in 8 guesses with an accuracy of 87.5% and a time of 00:10:03.

wtf could this be? ... oh duh

I solved Redactle #893 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:23:57.

I eventually clocked it was a language and then the word "the" in what looked like it would be a list of countries where it was spoken put me on the right track.

heel goed! zo doe je dat!

I solved Redactle #894 in 54 guesses with an accuracy of 61.1% and a time of 00:19:16. Play at https://redactle.net/

Super frustrating, got this in 10 but spelt it Wroclaw not Wrocław.

I got the German name, still hoping (and expecting) the Polish name to come to me at some point. then I read Tim’s hidden text, and (as expected), duh…

oh damn! just noticed I actually guessed ‘Wroclaw’ at 18 (and got exactly 1 hit) - but you’re telling me I was supposed to spell it in actual Polish-Polish? that’s… harsh

Guess Count 32 global median
Accuracy 79.6% global median
Duration 00:09 global median
Games Played 840 global count

find that hard to believe, unless everyone (bar us here) playing today is from Poland

I solved Redactle #894 in 12 guesses with an accuracy of 75.0% and a time of 00:52:55. Hints used: 1 Hmmmm.

I solved Redactle #895 in 64 guesses with an accuracy of 48.4% and a time of 00:27:08.

got the second word straight away, but struggled to pinpoint area and era

I solved Redactle #895 in 18 guesses with an accuracy of 55.6% and a time of 00:27:26.

did not get the second word straight away, much head scratching for the first even after I'd got 'great' and then 'alexander'

I solved Redactle #896 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:09:10.

I had to confirm the second word in the intro to start thinking about the first.

I solved Redactle #896 in 45 guesses with an accuracy of 46.7% and a time of 00:14:36.

not sure what merited the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights a spot in the intro, bit of a red herring for me

I gave up on 895 and 896 because I lack moral fibre.

I solved Redactle #897 in 4 guesses with an accuracy of 50.0% and a time of 00:03:46. I could think of three six-letter examples of the thing and picked the wrong two before the correct one.

I solved Redactle #897 in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 66.7% and a time of 00:00:25.

I solved Redactle #898 in 13 guesses with an accuracy of 76.9% and a time of 00:20:26.

have you considered that what you think is a *o**i*e** could it in fact be a *ou***y, what you think is a *ou***y could in fact be a **o*i**e, et cetera?

I solved Redactle #898 in 15 guesses with an accuracy of 53.3% and a time of 00:17:22. Hints used: 3

no and that's why I resorted to hints

I solved Redactle #899 in 13 guesses with an accuracy of 61.5% and a time of 00:09:37.

didn't look like a history one or I might have guessed 'war' earlier.

I solved Redactle #899 in 20 guesses with an accuracy of 80.0% and a time of 00:11:23.

I solved Redactle #902 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:00:12.

beat it

I solved Redactle #902 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:01:45.

you wanna be startin’ somethin’?

anyway, I’ve been feenin’ for a musical puzzle for many a moon now, but could it perhaps have been a tiny bit less obvious one?

I had a catch-up

I solved Redactle #899 in 11 guesses with an accuracy of 45.5% and a time of 00:42:28. Hints used: 1 . Bleurgh I didn't enjoy this one at all. figured that there were arguments for and arguments against but my brain wouldn't get any further without the hint.

I solved Redactle #900 in 6 guesses with an accuracy of 66.7% and a time of 00:10:48. Hints used: 1 Got to mathematics swiftly, wouldn't have got any further without the hint.

I solved Redactle #901 in 9 guesses with an accuracy of 88.9% and a time of 00:10:08. Took a few swings at seven letter Eastern European countries

I solved Redactle #902 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:00:41. That one was easy,

I solved Redactle #903 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:07:23. A Man Without A Country gave it away. I am struck by the fact that "writer and humorist" and "singer and musician" redact to looking identical, as do "novel" and "album". Happily "published" and "released" are distinguishable.

I solved Redactle #903 in 6 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:08:54.

didn't recognise any of the titles (hadn't heard of 'a man without a country') so had to take a hint.

I enjoyed 900, spotted euclid's elements right away but took me a while to realise there's a nine letter word that means the same (more or less) as euclid's.

I solved Redactle #904 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:06:27. First hunch was right.

I solved Redactle #904 in 37 guesses with an accuracy of 81.1% and a time of 00:20:07.

jeez… planted myself in Asia straight away, but it wasn’t until I tried India that I saw the light

still drawing a blank as to that American writer, none of the book titles that I’ve uncovered ring a bell

I solved Redactle #904 in 22 guesses with an accuracy of 77.3% and a time of 00:18:02.

yeah maybe it's not a country ya big eejit

I solved Redactle #905 in 10 guesses with an accuracy of 90.0% and a time of 00:15:48.

sag mir wer du bist

I solved Redactle #905 in 5 guesses with an accuracy of 80.0% and a time of 00:07:04. Hints used: 1

please no more cities

I solved Redactle #905 in 5 guesses with an accuracy of 60.0% and a time of 00:22:13. Hints used: 1 I agree with Ledge although I enjoy having a read of the pages about cities once the painful business of solving is over with.

I solved Redactle #906 in 31 guesses with an accuracy of 58.1% and a time of 00:07:13.

hint: it’s not a city!