______ the ____________: Redactle

#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!

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

wow, got this one in 6. did a random guess for “city” at 4 and after “city-state” announced itself hit the jackpot right away.

blimey i'm shit at this, into 100+ guesses and no idea still

got it in 172

A question to the letter counters: do you see the individual boxes, or do you highlight them one at a time and count them that way? If the former, what browser do you use?

lol, got it in 141 after going so many wrong ways.

re counting i only do it rarely but for the most part it's by eye (since it's all in a monospace font. i usually don't count if it's over 5 or so)

anyway today: i got stuck early with a few hits on "sound" which is not helpful!! but eventually worked my way to gas and liquid and solid... seemed like one in the other... struggled a little longer, got one hit for beer near the beginning, and the next one was the answer

im gonna spoiler tag this too just in case but possible bug i found? (if you're still trying to do today's, it shouldn't affect you)
i got zero hits for hz, even though there is a Hz in there? huh?

You solved it in 18 guesses
Your accuracy was 66.67%
Globally, 910 players have solved today's Redactle so far

was determined to get it under 20 even if it meant going away and thinking about it.

i have to drag mouse to count letters on the mac. and, yeah, generally you can just eyeball it if it's 6 or under.

#36 in 7. Happy… but I could have shaved a couple.

I drag across and count on mac chrome, or copy and paste then delete each letter-blank counting "one, two, three, four" as I go if I want to be certain. I only do it for title and key words that I've got a hypothesis for.

#36 600 (sic) / 41%

Oof! Got sponge at 211 but didn't think to try bath until 596, which led me to soap, which got me close to the final answer.

161 guesses / 37.27%

Went in all kinds of completely wrong directions on this one

What else should it be?
All topology

I solved Redactle #757 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:00:25.

lucky-ish guess-ish

I solved Redactle #758 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:06:24.

clear what the first word had to be, as for the other one: there was a big clue somewhere in there

I solved Redactle #758 in 12 guesses with an accuracy of 75.0% and a time of 00:07:37.

missed the clue

I solved Redactle #758 in 12 guesses with an accuracy of 75.0% and a time of 00:07:37.

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yesterday’s puzzle:

I solved Redactle #759 in 1000 guesses with an accuracy of 57.4% and a time of 03:59:28. Hints used: 3

cheated to get the answer, thought I would perhaps recognize the name, but not really. a very interesting leisurely stroll through pre-islamic middle eastern history. A+ experience

crikey.

I solved Redactle #760 in 26 guesses with an accuracy of 69.2% and a time of 00:13:00.

I solved Redactle #760 in 8 guesses with an accuracy of 87.5% and a time of 00:04:36.

holy cow! a scientific subject and i got it within 10 guesses!

I solved Redactle #763 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:03:48.

I solved Redactle #763 in 7 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:12:31.

was gonna say: open for 2

I solved Redactle #764 in 6 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:08:13.

another one that retroactively should have been a hole-in-one with the massive clue in there

I solved Redactle #764 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:17:58.

far too long.

I solved Redactle #771 in 6 guesses with an accuracy of 50.0% and a time of 00:05:34.

lol. lmao.

I solved Redactle #771 in 114 guesses with an accuracy of 58.8% and a time of 00:22:17.

just dickin’ around

I solved Redactle #776 in 16 guesses with an accuracy of 87.5% and a time of 00:19:52. Hints used: 1

thought I wouldn’t get the main word, so found a clue and did an outside search. should have given my brain some more breathing space tho, but I actually knew that name and some of my first guesses were very close

I solved Redactle #776 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:08:55.

figured out the country but did not know the name and would never have got it without cheating. which I did.

I solved Redactle #777 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:05:35.

it’s that time again

I solved Redactle #778 in 107 guesses with an accuracy of 55.1% and a time of 00:20:04.

all my own work!

I got Ecuador in one with the aid of a map...

I solved Redactle #778 in 34 guesses with an accuracy of 58.8% and a time of 00:38:28.
Hints used: 3

not all my own work :( I had appropriation at 19, which is the first 'see also', that monopolised my thinking from then on.

I solved Redactle #779 in 41 guesses with an accuracy of 58.5% and a time of 00:11:47.

I solved Redactle #780 in 254 guesses with an accuracy of 64.2% and a time of 00:41:22.

I solved Redactle #780 in 7 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:03:12.

had to cheat on 779 berbeberberrbeberr

https://www.omniglot.com/images/writing/tifinagh.gif

I solved Redactle #782 in 18 guesses with an accuracy of 72.2% and a time of 00:07:33.

sticking to the plan

I solved Redactle #783 in 17 guesses with an accuracy of 64.7% and a time of 00:06:36.

that’s several guesses too many. should have given the Dutch version of the name (hint: acronym is OVSE) some thought here. would have helped

I solved Redactle #783 in 13 guesses with an accuracy of 84.6% and a time of 00:18:32.

never heard of it. my wife got the second word. reminds me of knight rider's "foundation for law and government".

I solved Redactle #784 in 15 guesses with an accuracy of 60.0% and a time of 00:06:26.

settling into a groove here, it seems

I solved Redactle #784 in 19 guesses with an accuracy of 63.2% and a time of 00:06:37.

I solved Redactle #786 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:01:56. Play at https://redactle.net/

Wasn’t sure what this was until I scrolled down and saw “_’d ___ to __ the _____ a ____” and got it straight away.

I solved Redactle #786 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:06:03.

exact same experience

I solved Redactle #786 in 13 guesses with an accuracy of 84.6% and a time of 00:09:53.

I don't know what that quote means!

quite pleased with getting Human  papillomavirus infection yesterday in 15 tho.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27d_Like_to_Teach_the_World_to_Sing_(In_Perfect_Harmony)

I solved Redactle #787 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:03:45.

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