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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

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.

Well done, woof.

Yeah that’s amazing.

(I got it in 40 which I’m happy with considering how long I spent thinking it was something to do with cheese )

same as everyone - lettercounted

You can lettercount on a phone (or at least on an iPhone) as if you were selecting characters to copy and paste)

#45 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family

#46
You solved it in 30 guesses
Your accuracy was 46.67%
Globally, 914 players have solved today's Redactle so far

scattergun approach, tanked the accuracy

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.

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.

Redactle in 105 FFS. I'm pretty sure I thought of alligator quite early on but ruled it out when the was zero hits for reptile. I now find there was a single one for reptiles plural

Got it in a very lucky 1.

wow well done! I got it in ten, wasted a few guesses on bird/insect/fish/mammal before I saw the name derivation at the start of the second para - then a couple more trying to guess the language.

14, which was really just me randomly guessing animals that begin with a vowel

You can lettercount on a phone (or at least on an iPhone) as if you were selecting characters to copy and paste)

125, 52% - also just started guessing animals with a vowel after I didn’t have much luck narrowing it down via territory

pretty sure I’m far from the only one who doesn’t do lettercounting - not possible on a phone anyway, and I’m actually fine with not having this as an extra factor/helpline while playing this game.
filling in the gaps by using logical and strategic thinking (or just dumb word bombing lol) and getting closer to the solution slowly but surely is much more my idea of fun.
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Sunday, May 22, 2022 7:31 AM (four hours ago)

yes! <3

#46 -- 141 guesses -- I struggled with this one because the word reptile doesn't appear at all in the article, along with other words one would assume to be found or found more prominently in a wikipedia article about the subject

xp milo -- I got to the answer the same way tbh i guessed otter, just because it started with a vowel, even though I was pretty certain it was not an otter

Amazing, Tim - a nice one to get in 1.

#46 in 18 - played myself in a similar way to alba and others - probably animal, 9 letters, starts with a vowel (almost certainly a, judging by the latin names), 2 species. That did make me think alligator, but 'reptile' getting nothing threw me (and going for that confirmation doesn't even makes sense… because my next guess would be alligator, so why not just guess that?). f'ed around with mammals and plants and fungi and armadillos before going back to the right answer in faint desperation.

filling in the gaps by using logical and strategic thinking (or just dumb word bombing lol) and getting closer to the solution slowly but surely is much more my idea of fun.
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Sunday, May 22, 2022 7:31 AM (four hours ago)

Ah I've been finding the fun in the period before the first guess - assembling the evidence, looking for clues, straining to construe chunks that almost make sense, trying to work out what I know and what I need to know, weighing up a showboat get-it-in-one concrete guess against finding out more. It is a bit more relaxing once I've blown a single-figure win tho.

109 but the journey was fun

#46 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator

I solved today's Redactle (#47) in 118 guesses with an accuracy of 54.24%.

Another physics one, and I was afraid I wasn't going to get it. I did notice that "and/or" gets rendered as a single word, which kind of sucks.

#47
You solved it in 25 guesses
Your accuracy was 84.00%
Globally, 2445 players have solved today's Redactle so far

surprised it's that high tbh. maybe the weekend numbers are just lower.

yeah, physics, because of the frequencies. but went back to old favourite words after getting nowhere. 'one' of the '????' -> 'one of the four' ... 'states of matter'.

15, 80% - no on solid, liquid… glad it was plasma because I can’t remember the fourth state of matter

Redactle #47 in 1. Now I can retire.

#47 in 7 - pretty happy - the pressure and frequency clues had me poking around elements and chemistry, but then tried 'physics', suspecting rightly that it might give me the bracketed clarifier in the title. Tried 'matter' thinking it was some particle but that gave me enough of the the first sentence & then eliminated liquid based on how it seemed to be explaining it later. Thinking more, I was aiming for the end of the opening sentence with 'matter'… but if I strongly suspected that, I should have stopped and spotted a) no plausible place for 'particle/s' b) a plausible 'states' just before it.

damn michael nice 🎉

> Redactle #47 in 1.

b-but it was two words

> the fourth state of matter

gas?

Yeah, the second word is the disambiguation so it auto-filled once I got the main. Didn't expect it to!

Not sure why mTorr wasn't redacted but that was the giveaway for me.

never heard of mTorr! 24 for me, wasted too many speculative guesses at the start, then was getting somewhere with pressure, volume, etc, before trying 'four' in the opening sentence which gave it away.

I didn’t solve Redactle in 645 guesses because I decided to just google the fourth state of matter. pretty sure it wouldn’t have come to me before my bedtime after having thrown everything physics-related I could think of at the wall (iow very little). I mean, if you can’t solve this thing with about 80% of the text unlocked…

apart from mTorr kHz was also unredacted. weird glitches in the system!

#47 in 6

#47 was Plasma (Physics)

#48 ??? ???
You solved it in 2 guesses
Your accuracy was 100.00%
Globally, 735 players have solved today's Redactle so far

109 for me

didn’t have a clue about anything whatsoever until I got to *Six* Day War at guess 101, after that it was a done deal

I solved today's Redactle (#48) in 24 guesses with an accuracy of 75.00%.

#48
You solved it in 2 guesses
Your accuracy was 100.00%

me too.

28, 75%

I got it in 2, but that was after about 15-20 minutes of staring at it in confusion.

got it in 85 after wasting a ton of guesses on numbers and common science/math variable letters. was absolutely baffled by the single-character words towards the beginning... turns out they were slashes?

then i dumped in my list of like 50 common words because i was getting fed up with it, got it a few guesses later.

no idea why that second sentence wasn't caught in the hidden code, i put the end bit at the end of the post. not that it spoils much

test does spoiler text not work anymore if you include

a line break and pre-code text

:\

put a space on the empty line

thank

you