______ the ____________: Redactle

blargh 222 just didn't think of it I did try "bite" and "insect" halfway through and it showed kind of something but "bites" and "insects" would have got me there in a snap

alba i think you're ready to go pro

i stupidly cheated at the end assuming it must be some bloodsucking insect that i'd never heard of - couldn't let go of the thought that it'd be the same 3 letter word repeating like "tse tse"

I got thrown a bit because Africa and South America were the only continents I hit and I don't think of bed bugs as having an original habitat.

#38 was a 'did not participate' - weekend stuff just completely in the way. Fitted in 15 guesses, & given a favourable domain and what I already had would have got there under 100.

Looking at #39 after next coffee.

#39 in 18 insects by 14, then fly, ant, bug. Long pause staring at the first 3 letter word and wondering if this was an American thing that I hadn't heard of before remembering the existence of these little shits.

Nice work again Alba - and how'd you get yesterday's in one? (Amazing btw - I don't think that's been marvelled at anything like enough). The best way in I noticed was the chapter-and-verse stuff but even if I'd played with focus I'd have been homing in for a few guesses.

Thanks woof. For Abraham it was the same old tell as with prophecy that it was something biblical from the chapter verse punctuation, yeah. So I was looking for "Christianity"/"Christian"/"Judaism" in the intro to see how closely it was something biblical and doing that the second sentence looked like a succession of “In Christianity … in Judaism … in Islam”. There seemed a good change that the the two-letter word after each was “he”, so was thinking of big (judging by the length of the article) seven-letter name figures in the … Abrahamic religions and he came to mind shortly after I began fretting that I wasn't sure how to spell Ezekiel.

In a way I'm more pleased with #39 where I had a feeling the last word of the first sentence was 'night' because I couldn't think of another word that length would follow 'at' as a final word early on. I'd wasted my first two goes on world and war I think but I had a feeling from looking at what turned out to be the 'Society and culture' section that it was a non-literary thing that had a small imprint in the arts and that lone quotation in the subsection above the two books would be something like a children's rhyme. So when 'night' popped up in that, the bed bugs saying leapt out at me.

I'm very much expecting another protist-style blowout today to bring me back down to earth.

#39 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_bug ick!

15 today!

329!

My first solve

Also, perhaps not coincidentally, my first attempt on a desktop computer not a phone

So much for posting ILX's high score lol.

#40 180 / 47%

I really ought to reorient my approach because I think I'm going too specific a lot of the times, which results in a lot of dead-ends. Today, I got stuck on countries and didn't think to try food till 151.

I solved today's Redactle (#40) in 297 guesses with an accuracy of 60.27%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

Annoying as put the plural in guess 130 but didn’t try the singular until 297.

#40
You solved it in 47 guesses
Your accuracy was 70.21%
Globally, 3339 players have solved today's Redactle so far

would've got it 4 guesses earlier if i hadn't spelt it 'desert' by mistake

#40 in 40, 55%.

#40 in 7 world > france > food > life > meal > drink > dessert

might just give up and go home!

#40 in 77 guesses, I think I don't care enough about getting the answer as quickly as possible, because I generally start with categorical type words or really common words just to have more blanks filled in, to have a better sense of the text? Anyway now i am hungry

86 guesses, had some idea it was about food but didn't get dessert until bean then pie.

It's too satisfying to fill in the would could should were etc. filler words to really go for the low numbers.

It's too satisfying to fill in the would could should were etc. filler words to really go for the low numbers.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, May 16, 2022 12:19 PM (twelve minutes ago)

exactly! This is probably why our results tend to be in the same range (except for when you totally get it and I am too dense).
I started guessing food related stuff when I guessed "French" and there were significant results. Like, what are significant things that came from France? ... food

I solved today's Redactle (#40) in 47 guesses with an accuracy of 48.94%.

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53, would've gotten it a lot sooner if i just guessed dessert instead of listing out every dessert i could think of

I solved today's Redactle (#40) in 262 guesses with an accuracy of 40.84%. didn’t get the food angle until 247, then it was over quickly

It's too satisfying to fill in the would could should were etc. filler words to really go for the low numbers.

#40 in 56 - disappointed but not much to say here. Poking around that French stuff early, but my brain was heading towards clothes, gambling and law as areas of French vocab borrowings. Don't hit food till 36 and keep getting pulled away when associated words aren't getting great results.

I spent ages staring at this one before making any guesses; convinced myself it was some sort of booze but there were just too many things that I couldn't quite fit; some of the bullets pointed bits near the bottom that were like a_____ of _______ and a ______ of a ______ of ________ just had to be recipes of some sort; got it in 10 after initially being a bit too specific, luckily went down the sweet route first.

I think I might enjoy the process of just instinctively wanging loads of words in more than I do the process of thinking about this very carefully in order to keep the score low; I play this on my phone which makes detailed consideration trickier I think.

#40 in 7

― Alba

Crazy good!

true - gets more tense staring at a blank wordle as time goes on, gritted teeth, telling myself it's going to be single figures today.

I find it strangely disappointing when I get it right and everything gets filled in, I forget all the things that were perplexing me - what could that two letter word there be? Is that the name of a book? The air of mystery just vanishes.

Yes! On the rare occasions that I go back to see what a section that I was wrestling with was, it’s just not an interesting exercise. The disenchantment is instant.

i did have a look for the lone á in yesterday's

#40 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dessert

(i can't see an easy way of looking back at previous puzzles, not even what they were, hence the above. and i hide it because i figure there could be people still working on it, still with the window open)

my heartbreak moment with these, as well as the reveal, is the first 0 guess.

I solved today's Redactle (#41) in 47 guesses with an accuracy of 53.19%.

#41 in 1

Back in the game.

#41
You solved it in 3 guesses
Your accuracy was 100.00%
Globally, 369 players have solved today's Redactle so far

woot (should've been 2, could've been 1. "a-????" obviously "a-line". guessed 'dress' rather than 'skirt')

Happy little chug through 35 guesses, very pleasant. Shoulda paid more attention to a-____.

2! I saw a-____ but nothing sprang to mind. tried an impulsive first guess then a minute later it came to me, damnit!

#41 in 68 guesses -- I too took note of the "a-____" and first thought it had to do with buildings, but got 0 hits on "frame"

#41 in 30 guesses with 53% accuracy. I thought quite long and hard about the a-____ but a-line just wouldn't come to me at first. I kept thinking a-frame

#41 in 1

Back in the game.

Excellent!

in 4!

A friend of mine also got it in 1 today, using exactly the same logic as koogs above.

Tougher than it should have been, 82/55% toga tunic robe... kaftan...muu-muu ran out of 'dress' styles after a while and then got skirt

you people are insane

i'm guessing the smoking gun is "a-____" but i can't think of what that could be other than "team"

xp X a-line

i can't see an easy way of looking back at previous puzzles, not even what they were,

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