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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.

buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Saturday, 28 May 2022 17:25 (three years ago)

Hole in 1 too here.

Alba, Saturday, 28 May 2022 17:31 (three years ago)

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

papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 28 May 2022 17:33 (three years ago)

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.

Alba, Saturday, 28 May 2022 17:34 (three years ago)

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

butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:33 (three years ago)

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

, Saturday, 28 May 2022 20:19 (three years ago)

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

koogs, Sunday, 29 May 2022 15:57 (three years ago)

#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

koogs, Sunday, 29 May 2022 16:48 (three years ago)

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

Alba, Sunday, 29 May 2022 18:56 (three years ago)

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

buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Sunday, 29 May 2022 19:13 (three years ago)

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

papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 29 May 2022 19:20 (three years ago)

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

koogs, Sunday, 29 May 2022 19:51 (three years ago)

47 - I finally remembered what that thing is called

TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Sunday, 29 May 2022 20:04 (three years ago)

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


Don’t take my triumphs away from me!

Alba, Sunday, 29 May 2022 20:08 (three years ago)

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

Michael Jones, Sunday, 29 May 2022 22:14 (three years ago)

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

koogs, Monday, 30 May 2022 00:53 (three years ago)

one of many

koogs, Monday, 30 May 2022 00:53 (three years ago)

#53 was Valence (Chemistry)

koogs, Monday, 30 May 2022 15:56 (three years ago)

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

koogs, Monday, 30 May 2022 16:32 (three years ago)

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

donna rouge, Monday, 30 May 2022 16:50 (three years ago)

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?

Averaged Sevenfold (Leee), Monday, 30 May 2022 17:26 (three years ago)

0.020885434273039 pounds per square foot, obv

koogs, Monday, 30 May 2022 17:27 (three years ago)

leee the plasma page used 'Pa' in places

koogs, Monday, 30 May 2022 17:29 (three years ago)

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

papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 30 May 2022 18:10 (three years ago)

2, damnit! went for ampere first.

buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Monday, 30 May 2022 18:37 (three years ago)

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.

Michael Jones, Monday, 30 May 2022 19:00 (three years ago)

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

sarahell, Monday, 30 May 2022 19:10 (three years ago)

i guessed every single letter of the alphabet

sarahell, Monday, 30 May 2022 19:12 (three years ago)

5 - isn't 2 the minimum or are you not counting the word in parentheses?

TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Monday, 30 May 2022 20:29 (three years ago)

you don't need to hit the word in brackets to win.

Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Monday, 30 May 2022 20:30 (three years ago)

ooooh

TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Monday, 30 May 2022 21:29 (three years ago)

Still working on this at 17 guesses. May give up.

Got unit in 1, SI in 9 (not that it helped, but that two letter word was bugging me from the start), pressure in 16 then was sure it was newton but no. I think psi is the only other pressure unit I know

Alba, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 10:06 (three years ago)

Gave up.

Alba, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 11:34 (three years ago)

#54 was Pascal_(unit)

koogs, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 16:02 (three years ago)

i have the redactle yips today

koogs, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 16:21 (three years ago)

(actually i mea the darts version of the yips, whatever that's called)

koogs, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 16:24 (three years ago)

Lazarenko's Conundrum.

Michael Jones, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 17:27 (three years ago)

argh that was meant to be hidden - any mods around?

Alba, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 17:50 (three years ago)

got fluid dynamics and a bunch of related terms but pretty sure I'm a goner on this one

papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 18:07 (three years ago)

Second day I gave up and googled. Don't think I'd have ever got that so glad to have saved myself

Alba, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 18:28 (three years ago)

Got today's in 22. My first stab at "In (5, 8)" was legal parlance but that was fruitless so I hovered around maths and science until I saw what seemed to be Reynolds number down page and bob's your uncle.

Michael Jones, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 18:32 (three years ago)

automatically clicked on Milo's hidden text having forgotten that I'm not finished. I'm still not finished.

koogs, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 18:55 (three years ago)

man, another one of *those*?

butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 19:07 (three years ago)

53 guesses, decently happy with that

brisk money (lukas), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 19:59 (three years ago)

218 just chucking sciencey words at it after a while, still fun though. Don't really feel I could have got it much sooner, I didn't miss any obvious (for me) clues.

TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 21:03 (three years ago)

189! took me 50 guesses to get to physics, which is too many, but by 80 I was swimming in kinetic energy and knew it was a great unsolved problem in physics, neither of which helped.

buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 21:32 (three years ago)

that was annoying. started again on my phone and it was another form of a word i had 10s of guesses ago, maybe even a spelling error (autocorrect helpful for once!)

koogs, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 21:50 (three years ago)

'dartitis' is apparently their version of the yips although the -itis is generally an inflammation of something and this is a spasm. made up word.

koogs, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 21:59 (three years ago)

#55 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbulence

koogs, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:13 (three years ago)

16, 87.5%

kind of a wild card, thought it was going to be immigration across land bridges or something but bridges was a miss

papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:10 (three years ago)


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