#43You solved it in 10 guessesYour accuracy was 90.00%Globally, 4294 players have solved today's Redactle so far
went for early glory with Marco...
United is a handy word, given that it matches States or Kingdom. both here...
― koogs, Thursday, 19 May 2022 18:09 (two years ago) link
all that time mike has spent watching Tales of the Unexpected has finally paid off...
― koogs, Thursday, 19 May 2022 18:10 (two years ago) link
20, 85% - I spotted that was the week that was but that was the clue that was no help; guessing 'world' gave me (danny) the (champion) of the world.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Thursday, 19 May 2022 18:51 (two years ago) link
#43 in 23 guesses with an accuracy of 91.30%
my first time counting letters, which definitely was the key here
― rob, Thursday, 19 May 2022 19:04 (two years ago) link
took my sweet time feeling and filling my way around and got it in 148 guesses with an accuracy of 81.76% (highest accuracy since Streep’s perfect 100)
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Thursday, May 19, 2022 10:59 AM (one hour ago)
similar -- 156 guesses, 87% accuracy
― sarahell, Thursday, 19 May 2022 19:05 (two years ago) link
2!
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:13 (two years ago) link
Nice one!
I did it in 9. Novelist > British > poet > war > novel > e > India > Roald > Dahl
― Alba, Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:38 (two years ago) link
I saw what looked like That Was The Week That Was too but that didn't help me, sadly
― Alba, Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:39 (two years ago) link
got it in 53 took me way too long to remember children's literature is a thing. however i am proud that i could see "He served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War" without guessing anything, which makes me feel very smart. (though i did guess "royal" to be sure)
― ✖, Thursday, 19 May 2022 22:02 (two years ago) link
it was the list along the lines of "The _____, The _____ and _____ and the _____ _____" that tipped me off
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Thursday, 19 May 2022 22:59 (two years ago) link
oh nice seandalai - chaotic 13 here - spotted 'That was the week that was' in there & took an initial punt on Peter Cook (Probably not US-famous enough to be a sensible guess?), then ground it out. Lucky even on 13 tbh - I was puzzling out '_____-_____ writer' in the definition and thought 'young-adult???' which pointed me to the answer. It was 'short-story writer', of course.
― woof, Friday, 20 May 2022 12:57 (two years ago) link
xphaha those lists were just making my smart brain tell my dumb brain 'no, still not CS Lewis'
― woof, Friday, 20 May 2022 12:59 (two years ago) link
2, 100%
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 20 May 2022 16:10 (two years ago) link
In 3! Wasted one on England! For some reason my mind went Ethelred the Unready … Alexander the Great … Ming the Merciless … Conan the Barbarian err, now I’m stuck let’s stick something in
― Alba, Friday, 20 May 2022 16:16 (two years ago) link
#43 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl
― koogs, Friday, 20 May 2022 16:16 (two years ago) link
#44You solved it in 2 guessesYour accuracy was 100.00%Globally, 1450 players have solved today's Redactle so far
1450 solvers in the 20 minutes it's been live...
― koogs, Friday, 20 May 2022 16:22 (two years ago) link
my first through was Suleiman the Magnificent but I actually counted letters for once
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 20 May 2022 16:25 (two years ago) link
3 - went with Richard at first.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 20 May 2022 16:38 (two years ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#44) in 9 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%.
still getting into this game, but pleased with this result
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 20 May 2022 16:38 (two years ago) link
2, disappointed it wasn't fungus the bogeyman
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Friday, 20 May 2022 16:52 (two years ago) link
solved #44 in 43 (74.42%)
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Friday, 20 May 2022 17:11 (two years ago) link
18 / 77%
Happy any time I get under a hundred guesses, counting the letters probably could've saved me a couple wasted guesses but otherwise a lot easier (for me) today.
― Pteredactle (Leee), Friday, 20 May 2022 18:12 (two years ago) link
21 guesses, 100% accuracy -- Probably the most focused on getting it in the fewest number of guesses than in the past ... my first guess was "great" and it only returned 3 words, so I assumed it was a British person and not a Russian one. then I guessed "war" and it only returned 2 ... then I went with "his" and "he" to determine the gender of the person, and if in fact, it was a person and not a thing or place. Though, at that point, I could have wracked my brain for historical British rulers that didn't go to "war" and only engaged in "battle" (25 results)... I figured I would just guess common names of British royalty ... William, Henry, Edward
― sarahell, Friday, 20 May 2022 19:47 (two years ago) link
4Wasted one on England!went with Richard at first.
Wasted one on England!
went with Richard at first.
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Friday, 20 May 2022 20:13 (two years ago) link
ah nuts :(
any mod around?
In 2.
― woof, Saturday, 21 May 2022 14:14 (two years ago) link
English-centric for a change. but these aren't fun. prefer it when it takes about 100.
― koogs, Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:25 (two years ago) link
#44 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Conqueror
― koogs, Saturday, 21 May 2022 16:14 (two years ago) link
#45You solved it in 3 guessesYour accuracy was 100.00%Globally, 755 players have solved today's Redactle so far
wasted one on a word that was obvious
― koogs, Saturday, 21 May 2022 16:25 (two years ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#45) in 35 guesses with an accuracy of 60.00%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/
Back to back days under 100, I think this thread has made me a little more circumspect about filling out some sentences, as well as having a better feel for when the answer is more generalized.
Theory at 2 led me to evolution and biological and I spent several guesses exploring scientific concepts before I entered patent, child, inheritance, and legal.
― Pteredactle (Leee), Saturday, 21 May 2022 16:25 (two years ago) link
all the -in-??? stuff was obviously -in-law. then marriage which was in the first paragraph. then the answer
― koogs, Saturday, 21 May 2022 16:29 (two years ago) link
18, 100%
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 21 May 2022 17:34 (two years ago) link
Best yet, still a long way off woof and koogs. I solved today's Redactle (#45) in 15 guesses with an accuracy of 80.00%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 21 May 2022 17:35 (two years ago) link
Redactle #45 in 22 with 81% accuracy Bit more fun, koogs!
― Alba, Saturday, 21 May 2022 18:29 (two years ago) link
2! Similar logic to koogs
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Saturday, 21 May 2022 19:31 (two years ago) link
3 by total luck
just glancing over it i thought it would be related to science, especially with the first sentence starting with "In" which makes me think "In (scientific field or proces), (word) is etc." wasted a guess on "volume," then tried "law" as in "law of physics or whatever," which opened up all the in-laws.
― ✖, Saturday, 21 May 2022 19:46 (two years ago) link
33 guesses the syntax first made me think it was about a game, then it looked like it might be about language and dialect, then i ended up with "one (or more) people" and I guessed the term, not knowing it was the right answer, but because a current project at work is related to how said term is defined for the purpose of zoning and building classifications
― sarahell, Saturday, 21 May 2022 20:00 (two years ago) link
23 despite spotting in-law straight away and getting birth and marriage not long after. I blame the two beers I've had.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Saturday, 21 May 2022 21:23 (two years ago) link
51 guesses for me. lol at me spending a lot of time guessing every kind of relation i could think of after getting “law” before zooming out for the answer
― donna rouge, Saturday, 21 May 2022 22:37 (two years ago) link
that 2 up upthread was #44 - same as everyone - lettercounted, picked a sane Something the Something historical figure & checked that it made sense against the text (plausible 'William I' in the first sentence). Completely forgot about Richard the Lionheart/Richard I but I think would have stuck with William after scrutinising the article.
#45 - 1 - very happy with that after a long time looking at it - -in-law was the big clue, which had me humming and hawing over wedding/marriage stuff but reluctant to try a 7 when it felt gettable. Spotted the section that (from the hyphens) seemed to be explaining the rules around 'great-" and "great-grand". Went in on the big topic and hit.
― woof, Saturday, 21 May 2022 22:45 (two years ago) link
Well done, woof.
― Alba, Sunday, 22 May 2022 06:21 (two years ago) link
Yeah that’s amazing.
― Tim, Sunday, 22 May 2022 07:48 (two years ago) link
(I got it in 40 which I’m happy with considering how long I spent thinking it was something to do with cheese )
― Tim, Sunday, 22 May 2022 07:56 (two years ago) link
same as everyone - lettercounted
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Sunday, 22 May 2022 14:31 (two years ago) link
You can lettercount on a phone (or at least on an iPhone) as if you were selecting characters to copy and paste)
― Alba, Sunday, 22 May 2022 15:13 (two years ago) link
#45 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family
― koogs, Sunday, 22 May 2022 16:12 (two years ago) link
#46You solved it in 30 guessesYour accuracy was 46.67%Globally, 914 players have solved today's Redactle so far
scattergun approach, tanked the accuracy
― koogs, Sunday, 22 May 2022 16:42 (two years ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#46) in 150 guesses with an accuracy of 46.67%.
Over a hundred guesses again, feels like coming home. I got animal straight away, but needed a long time to figure out that it was a reptile and a weird comparison to birds didn't help. I knew it was egg laying and that environmental factors help determine sex, so that also sent me down a fishy goose chase. Teeth was what put on the right path, eventually.
― Pteredactle (Leee), Sunday, 22 May 2022 16:53 (two years ago) link
i went the dinosaur route, thinking it was icthyosaur or iguanadon (the 'An' meant it started with a vowel). but 'dinosur' was a 0 which threw me. 'United' and then compass directions, didn't help. 'lizard' did.
― koogs, Sunday, 22 May 2022 16:57 (two years ago) link