______ the ____________: Redactle

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.

xp
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!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Redactle/comments/unfexf/a_still_hacky_way_to_play_custom_redactles/

I solved Redactle #923 in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:20:17 because science was my second guess.

I solved Redactle #927 in 19 guesses with an accuracy of 68.4% and a time of 00:19:54.

gave up after taking ages to figure out it was a fly not a fish, then thinking it wanted the Latin name.

I solved Redactle #928 in 12 guesses with an accuracy of 41.7% and a time of 00:11:40.

doable in one if you prefer your sushi inside-out'

I solved Redactle #928 in 171 guesses with an accuracy of 66.1% and a time of 00:38:55.

it quickly became abundantly clear that it had to be some pretty obvious food thing, but because I got hits for India and lots of SE Asian countries but not for China, I wrongly assumed Japan wouldn’t be in the cards either

I solved Redactle #930 in 205 guesses with an accuracy of 61.5% and a time of 00:59:58.

not my luckiest effort

I solved Redactle #930 in 205 guesses with an accuracy of 61.5% and a time of 00:59:58.

not my luckiest effort

I solved Redactle #930 in 15 guesses with an accuracy of 60.0% and a time of 00:19:51.

follow the money

I solved Redactle #931 in 182 guesses with an accuracy of 64.3% and a time of 00:50:52.

easy come, easy go

lol

I solved Redactle #931 in 26 guesses with an accuracy of 50.0% and a time of 00:28:04.

I got Italian name ending in ee-oh but still no clue till I got the ten letter profession.

I solved Redactle #932 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:27:02.

bewildering list of equipment for this sport. oh right it's all the things it is as well as a sport.

I solved Redactle #933 in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:13:39.

only started thinking after I had started out with “miles”, shoulda done this in 2

I solved Redactle #933 in 8 guesses with an accuracy of 75.0% and a time of 00:17:41.

I mean yeah it was never going to be 'californian ridge'. tired and lazy and hasty.

I solved Redactle #934 in 13 guesses with an accuracy of 71.4% and a time of 00:03:26.

I solved Redactle #934 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:00:41.

solved after beers so lucky to have avoided jumping in with 'alexander'

I solved Redactle #939 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:06:39.

this was annoying. it was my first thought but I was expecting 'band' or 'group', not 'supergroup'. and I didn't see any familiar song titles till well after the half way point (though i guess 'mamma mia!' was there).

I solved Redactle #937 in 341 guesses with an accuracy of 69.2% and a time of 01:05:13. Hints used: 2 (I think) - plus I cheated
I was not familiar with this person’s game

I solved Redactle #938 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:01:01.
kinda lucky, picked the first 5-letter state I could think of, and the city seemed like a good guess for its capital

I solved Redactle #939 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:03:51.
momentarily confused into thinking this was about a duo act, but knowing me knowing pop I quickly came to my senses

I solved Redactle #940 in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 66.7% and a time of 00:02:10.

tried two other 5-letter Francophone countries in the same part of the world first

I solved Redactle #941 in 77 guesses with an accuracy of 87.0% and a time of 00:18:23.

I solved Redactle #941 in 10 guesses with an accuracy of 70.0% and a time of 00:17:27.

didn't do so well with the niger.

I solved Redactle #942 in 11 guesses with an accuracy of 63.6% and a time of 00:18:29.

some confusion in these parts as to the number of letters in the name of the country. once this was solved the coast became a whole lot clearer

I solved Redactle #942 in 25 guesses with an accuracy of 32.0% and a time of 00:16:21. Hints used: 2

yes put the country name first you cunts, also gtfo with 'metropolitan'.

I solved Redactle #944 in 155 guesses with an accuracy of 72.9% and a time of 00:28:11.

got an earlier hit for “wind” - a lucky one at that, because I was going for the noun “wound” - but I squandered it, being foolishly unable to square it with the military theme, and then, duh

gave up when the etymology hints seemed to point to galleon. not that i haven't heard of them, slave galleys etc.

I solved Redactle #945 in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:10:17.

tried one half of the name of the country I thought this would be associated with, just for confirmation’s sake, and then it gave me some surprising results, which gave the game away immediately

(and yes, sometimes it’s helpful as a coping mechanism to have certain routines in place)

I solved Redactle #945 in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:04:10.

'sport'. and yes, quite.

(I saw what looked like a game score)

I solved Redactle #948 in 87 guesses with an accuracy of 71.3% and a time of 00:17:35. 🤦🏻‍♂️

I solved Redactle #948 in 8 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:15:09.

I did get a little help from roget with the second word.

I solved Redactle #947 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:08:10.

short-time tally

I solved Redactle #947 in 6 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:19:38.

missed an open goal

I solved Redactle #946 in 47 guesses with an accuracy of 48.9% and a time of 00:09:41. Hints used: 1

wouldn’t have gotten there without that hint, only know it under one of its alternative names

I solved Redactle #947 in 6 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:19:38.

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949: gave up, fuck that cunt (who I've never heard of)

I solved Redactle #950 in 4 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:30:26.

my first two guesses could=should have been skipped

I solved Redactle #951 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:00:03. Play at https://redactle.net/

LOL

I solved Redactle #951 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:00:03. Play at https://redactle.net/

LOL

I solved Redactle #951 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:00:02.

my thoughts exactly

I solved Redactle #951 in 118 guesses with an accuracy of 74.6% and a time of 00:29:32.

😭

I solved Redactle #952 in 160 guesses with an accuracy of 63.1% and a time of 00:35:32. Hints used: 1

from bad to worse: a leg up from Adolf H.

I solved Redactle #953 in 11 guesses with an accuracy of 81.8% and a time of 00:12:08.

oh, this *is* the plural

I solved Redactle #952 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:08:56.

ww2 in the opening para, probably a weapon...

#953: never heard of em

interesting though!

I solved Redactle #954 in 19 guesses with an accuracy of 57.9% and a time of 00:09:56.

obvious in retrospect, I mean had “water” as my first guess

I solved Redactle #954 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:00:30.

saw (roll)-on (roll)-off, went on many of those on trips to france as a kid.