______ the ____________: Redactle

verb was a 3rd person plural as opposed to singular,

there was a similar clue on the second word, 4 letters, couldn't be is or are, had to be plural AND past tense, were. unfortunately that just made me think templars 8(

105 guesses. For some reason it took me forever to get the leap from China to Japan. (Not much of a leap.)

i love reading the routes everyone took

#50 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai

#51 in 8.

Similar to Koogs, I had clues close at hand for yesterday (solved in 21). I'd just ordered food from a restaurant named Edo ffs - that was 15 hits right there!

23 0s in a row...

I solved today's Redactle (#51) in 131 guesses with an accuracy of 47.33%.

You solved it in 360 guesses
Your accuracy was 36.94%

Apparently today's had my head spinning around.

You solved it in 207 guesses
Your accuracy was 29.47%
Globally, 1981 players have solved today's Redactle so far

woeful

108, 43.52%

but it generally seems harder today given the global solvers (or it's a friday and people have lives)

15 guesses here. Got law as my second guess then was floundering for a bit

44 guesses, 50%, lol at me just typing court-y words i vaguely remember from procedurals until a hit

100 guesses in, still completely in the dark. It's almost thrilling. I know I'm going to be disappointed when I get it.

Got it in 158. I ruled out novels and art and animals but other than that had no idea, so rather than guessing different topics I tried getting as many general filler words as possible to see if anything popped out at me. Turns out that's not a great strategy. Having guessed 'can' and 'do' and 'does' early on I couldn't shake the feeling it was something that had agency. I was also confused Private Eye turned up, maybe that should have pointed me towards libel and the law but shortly after that I guessed 'right' which led me to 'constitutional' and then law. Still took me over 30 guesses from there.

Finally it hit me, at guess 443! Similar to ledge, I was completely in the dark until guess 94, where I got “law”. Filled up a litany of blanks, but I guess my (English) legalese just isn’t strong enough. The new day did wonders for me tho. I had stopped at 413 last night, but only needed another 30 today. Result!

#51 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injunction

#52 in 2. First guess was just to make sure I was in the right area, and then it's just counting letters in the various categories of country, city, language, local name for that city, etc.

I solved today's Redactle (#52) in 9 guesses with an accuracy of 77.78%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

I went with the golf approach this time to see if I could hack it, and apparently I can in I try. And while it's satisfying to post something under 10 guesses, I do miss the feeling of exploration I get from the "uncover full sentences" approach.

The blanks seemed to describe a capital city (@1) that also has some superlative characteristic ascribed to it, and so I tried area @2 to try to see if it was on the larger or smaller side (which was inconclusive), and so I threw away a guess of smaller @4 to follow up with largest @5. Then I counted(!) 6 letters in the answer and having previously confirmed that it was in Europe (@3, then European at 7), my first thought was Madrid, which was dumb because then I counted the letters in its country, but it did show up so I figured it had to be on the Iberian Peninsula.

#52
You solved it in 1 guesses
Your accuracy was 100.00%
Globally, 1081 players have solved today's Redactle so far

suck it

as mike, really, only i went for the glory and got lucky

Yay! Always good to see someone ace it.

1 guess, took a bit of thought, my first idea was something astronomical - largest moon? of what? before thinking what quantity might be stated without units - population.

Hole in 1 too here.

51, 74% - I thought it was science related before I filled in anything

Moon my first thought too, ledge, then city occurred to me quite quickly then Lisbon instantly on seeing it was six letters. When I’d counted up the letters in Portugal and Portuguese that sealed it. Surprised it doesn’t have a larger population.

I solved today's Redactle (#52) in 35 guesses with an accuracy of 80.00%. No letter-counting!

got it in 6 though still had to cheat as i'm an ignorant american who can't remember names of european capitals! also originally thought it was a moon and would've stuck with that if there were an 8-lettered planet in our solar system. my first two guesses were "AD" and "BC" because i was surprised to see so many ████ ██ structures... usually if we're talking in BC/AD terms you don't get specific years. so i figured it had to be a city that was well-documented in ancient times (though it turns out most of those years were still estimates). originally assumed something in the middle east or northern africa but "east" and "arabic" only popped up a few times, and i figured "east" would also probably rule out asia. after that it was just a game of finding the right 8-lettered european country

#52 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon

#53
You solved it in 68 guesses
Your accuracy was 52.94%
Globally, 1092 players have solved today's Redactle so far

i had covalent at 38 during my 'try all the chemistry words i know' phase

Redactle #53 in 48 guesses with an accuracy of 64.58%. Chemistry was my first guess but was just settling in for a slog when one of the words I threw at it came good

got it in one, was a bit of a 'here goes nothing'.

68% but I cheated for the 92nd guess at the end because I ran out of chemistry terms remembered from getting a 71 in AP Chemistry 22 years ago - covalent hit early but I can't remember ever reading 'valence' before

in one is quite impressive, so much more so with this than with 'Lisbon'.

47 - I finally remembered what that thing is called

in one is quite impressive, so much more so with this than with 'Lisbon'.

Also in one. Proceeded as if my guess of what in the brackets was correct, and the entire first paragraph made sense.

i took French rather than chemistry because i was already doing 3 sciences. poor decision, 40 years ago...

one of many

#53 was Valence (Chemistry)

#54
You solved it in 9 guesses
Your accuracy was 77.78%
Globally, 979 players have solved today's Redactle so far

76 but I cheated. never took a physics class so i was never gonna get this in a million years.

I gave up on this one, which is maddening because I was on this Wikipedia page recently, possibly because of Redactle. Does anyone remember if a similar answer was featured?

0.020885434273039 pounds per square foot, obv

leee the plasma page used 'Pa' in places

120, 22%, cheated at the end just so I could see how bad my accuracy was

2, damnit! went for ampere first.

Also 2! Because I wanted to make sure my assumption of symbol was correct, and then it was a case of figuring out a six-letter derived SI unit with a two-character symbol - I think there's only this one.

Was confused by the whole where x is blah and y is blah section and it turns out that leads to nothing cos the formula isn't there.

284 guesses this was an "anti-American" puzzle ... now I know how the non-Americans feel with a lot of these ... I spent quite a while on this one and kept guessing "meter" and being frustrated and then baffled

i guessed every single letter of the alphabet