______ the ____________: Redactle

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,

If you've completed them in the browser you're in, you can go to Stats in the menu.

yeah but multiple devices and multiple fails

I solved today's Redactle (#42) in 4 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%.

Guess who miscounted the number of letters in health

#41 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skirt

#41
You solved it in 28 guesses
Your accuracy was 57.14%
Globally, 1679 players have solved today's Redactle so far

^ #42

Three!

All that stuff about Round and round was very perplexing but I just went with the most obvious 12-letter word to find in such a context and that was that. The Round stuff still doesn't mean anything to me!

I solved today's Redactle (#42) in 17 guesses with an accuracy of 64.71%.

4, bloody American spellings.

72, 52.78 -wasted so many guesses with usual filler

9. My first word was organisation, my last word was… organization.

5 guesses. should have been 4, thought it was cute to try “golf” for my second guess

I solved today's Redactle (#42) in 106 guesses with an accuracy of 51.89%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

Caught out by UK spelling, if I’d done US spelling would have got it in 48.

-ise is uk, no? i am and thats what i use.

I did the same as Mike T above, though considerably slower.

6 - I tried united and health along the way

(and Switzerland for fun)

the other day i was feeling a little annoyed with myself over how long these all seem to be taking me to solve and how i couldn’t figure out how so many of you were solving it in fewer than 10 guesses

then i got today’s in 4 lol

got it in 9. first two guesses were "world" and "organization" and then i tortured myself trying to figure out the middle word. capitalized "round" really threw me for a loop. eventually just started guessing topics that would've been relevant on a global scale around WWII.

speaking of "round" man i wish the dev would update the common word list. i have no idea why random words like that are sometimes included while the different tenses of "is" still aren't. but the dev has now been completely AWOL from socials for over a month now so i don't have much hope for that

ran off with all that sweet Redactle _______

The site has ads now(?) so he's doing *some* work on it, so yeah, the lack of QOL improvements is a little annoying.

Yeah I was originally thinking "not gonna whine too much because maybe he died or something" and then I saw he added ads lol

#42 in 17 - the round stuff distracted me into sport & tv for a bit but got there in the end

I don't mind some of the flakiness, like where the bad redaction gives you clues (dim flattering sense that you would definitely have cracked Enigma), but there's definitely weird stuff around ('hz' not hitting as Will M said upthread; I'm still a bit bothered by saints not hitting saints' but I can see how unredacting apostrophes could be awkward).

Right at the start I would have wanted plurals (or -s appended forms) for free; now, that feels like part of the game and I don't want it.

I do like how (in its limited way) Redactle supports different playing styles - some people count letters, some don't; some people stare at the board for 5 minutes before typing their first word, some people dive right in and feel their way around.

#42 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Organization with a 'z'

some people dive right in and feel their way around

Speaking of which: I solved today's Redactle (#43) in 321 guesses with an accuracy of 63.55%. I spent a hundred guesses trying to uncover a film career, but once I got to author, I still had a hard time -- no hits for genre/genres, not a modernist, etc. -- and at one point I started guessing common men's names in English, which, given the answer, LOL. I needed children (@319 with 23 hits) to finally get me there.