______ the ____________: Redactle

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

7! How? 89 for me, stuck too long on the science section, especially when x-rays showed up.

7 was pretty lucky tbh subscripts made me try a few chemistry words, but 'atomic' and 'chemical' and a couple of others were a bit blank - states seemed a good direction, and picked gas first. You can see liquid and solid in the first sentence if you've got that & then I just made myself stop guessing and think.

#36 in 40. Not bad - was slightly thrown by what looked like a a section heading consisting of a single character, which turned out to be a comma and not a hearing at all

275, 36%

Handed my iPad over to Kevin after 59, and he got it in just two more. That’s my boy.

23 today, vague sciencey words until I hit a run of liquid->gas->bubble->foam

i had gas very early but then went down a pressure / density cul de sac

Koogs, I'd be especially impressed if you filled in a few of the forumulae by typing lower-case rho ;) I wasted a few attempts there because I assumed they were H2, O2, etc.

I got stuck with pressure too, and fill in those subscripts was a stupid idea which led me into x-rays and particle physics

I made the same assumption, Michael - and looking again, glad I didn't try to check it.

will attempt this one at lunch, you guys are putting pressure on me to try harder and looking forward to the day i get a <100 guess win

100 guesses in and not one word found that's over 10 hits

maybe this afternoon

250 but i end up cheating and looked at all your hidden text haha

#36 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foam

gah. fifth guess is a typo.

I solved today's Redactle (#37) in 156 guesses with an accuracy of 51.28%.

will attempt this one at lunch, you guys are putting pressure on me to try harder and looking forward to the day i get a <100 guess win

I don't really try to do this, as I don't think I'd have as much fun playing it that way. I'm perfectly content to post triple-digit guess counts!

I solved today's Redactle (#37) in 160 guesses with an accuracy of 47.50%.

I cheated on this one once I knew what kind of thing I was looking for, I tried basically all the categories of things I could think of, but I never would have got it.

another good (ish) start but ground to a halt. will sleep on it.

(unfortunately current attempt is on the work laptop which won't be on tomorrow, so that'll bugger the stats)

25 today, also cheated because i knew exactly what i was looking for but just didn't know the word - got eukaryote/invertebrate/animal/plant/fungus early and i was like "well i don't remember the name of the other one so i either cheat or don't finish")

After 13 guesses I have, I'm pretty sure, the whole first sentence, though I haven't actually guessed all the words. I still can't think of what the answer is.

by 'guessed' I mean entered in.

yeah, 6 guesses and I feel like I should be able to get it but I can't quite grab the thing itself

i'm the same after a dozen guesses. i have basically the entire meaning of the thing but no idea what to call it.

yup, cheated after 22 guesses, vague possibility i once heard this word in 10th grade biology but i certainly didn't keep it around

20 guesses + cheated here, too. definitely don't think i've heard this word before, or if i did, i'd forgotten it. protozoan was my closest guess but that one got 0 hits

re: ✖'s last post
i am almost 100% confident i never heard this in school -- and looking at the kingdoms now i can maybe see why? circa 1998 here is what i remember: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_(biology)#Summary

I am at 292 guesses and the word is just escaping me ... I keep hoping that word association will trigger that memory of 10th grade biology class but so far I have remembered plasmodium, slime molds, and have gotten nowhere

> After 13 guesses I have, I'm pretty sure, the whole first sentence, though I haven't actually guessed all the words. I still can't think of what the answer is.

isn't the first word usually a repeat of the title?

Foam is...
Meryl Streep is...

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.