______ the ____________: Redactle

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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)

ice bridges

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

Ha we were thinking along the same lines i tried numerous terms related to bodies of water and adjacent land and structures related to water

sarahell, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:13 (three years ago)

#56 98 / 34.69%

Didn't finish yesterday's, but felt a little better getting today's in under 100.

Gianni Fursace (Leee), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:45 (three years ago)

19, 78.95%, my first guess was bridge too. I guessed water at 11 out of the blue really, could've guessed ice a bit quicker i guess but can't complain.

buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 18:06 (three years ago)

You solved it in 112 guesses
Your accuracy was 42.86%
Globally, 4903 players have solved today's Redactle so far

disappointed it wasn't "pot noodles"

koogs, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 18:58 (three years ago)

Spoiler, koogs :)

Got there in 12. Something which is a sport, but not always... er, log rolling... fly fishing...

Michael Jones, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 20:09 (three years ago)

99 not much to say I wandered around a lot

TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:03 (three years ago)

Yeah, 105. Water was the key again (a stab in the dark at 101)

Alba, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:53 (three years ago)

Any fool know that Wikipedia entry for pot noodles is singular

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_Noodle

koogs, Thursday, 2 June 2022 03:01 (three years ago)

i eventually got sport but then ball too which took me in directions that were not relevant. wasted many on countries and compass points.

koogs, Thursday, 2 June 2022 03:11 (three years ago)

is everyone getting <=45% silica and produce for free?

buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Thursday, 2 June 2022 16:07 (three years ago)

15, with that assist.

buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Thursday, 2 June 2022 16:21 (three years ago)

start of the second para was the key, should have spotted it more quickly.

buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Thursday, 2 June 2022 16:22 (three years ago)

#57 140 / 42.86%

A proposal for terminology:
- Golfers: players who try to get the answer in as few guesses as possible
- Explorers (or sightseers?): players who like to fill in whole sentences

Gianni Fursace (Leee), Thursday, 2 June 2022 16:37 (three years ago)

I'm a golfer who was getting warned for slow play so has decided to swing and hope a bit more.

But today: hole in one!

And yes huge unredacted hint in the middle but it was what looked like Year Without A Summer which gave it away.

Michael Jones, Thursday, 2 June 2022 16:57 (three years ago)

oh I saw that but couldn't work it out.

buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Thursday, 2 June 2022 16:59 (three years ago)

billy idol kept getting in the way.

buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Thursday, 2 June 2022 17:00 (three years ago)

#56 was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_skating

#57 in 17 (58%)

koogs, Thursday, 2 June 2022 17:11 (three years ago)

81, 38% went too science-y for a bit, I don't think geology hit on this one did it? I keep trying the broadest science terms hoping that just once a chemical process clue will actually have "chemistry" in the text.

papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 2 June 2022 17:52 (three years ago)

lol yeah I need to stop trying broadly generic terms that inevitably aren't in the text despite being "right" e.g., science or mathematics

rob, Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:54 (three years ago)

27. Mediocre.

Alba, Thursday, 2 June 2022 20:34 (three years ago)

45, could have been worse.

brisk money (lukas), Thursday, 2 June 2022 20:51 (three years ago)

shut it! xp

brisk money (lukas), Thursday, 2 June 2022 20:51 (three years ago)

21 I thought it was something about space for a bit

TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Thursday, 2 June 2022 22:28 (three years ago)

Now they tell me

https://i.imgur.com/9t8y6FX.png

Alba, Friday, 3 June 2022 07:24 (three years ago)

I solved today's Redactle (#57) in 24 guesses with an accuracy of 62.50%.

joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 3 June 2022 07:55 (three years ago)

there was a record label about 20 years ago called simple machines and each release was named after one of those 6 things. that helped me.

http://simplemachines.net/machines.html

oh, Jenny toomey

koogs, Friday, 3 June 2022 08:33 (three years ago)

14 today - I am not a golfer but estimate par could be around 6?

TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Friday, 3 June 2022 16:51 (three years ago)

#57 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano

am slowly getting together a (crude) books version, currently wondering what to do with apostrophes... how does redactle handle 'don't' for instance, is it ##### or ###'#?

koogs, Friday, 3 June 2022 16:58 (three years ago)

I solved today's Redactle (#58) in 17 guesses with an accuracy of 70.59%.

Nice, sean!

Gianni Fursace (Leee), Friday, 3 June 2022 17:06 (three years ago)

#58 in 2. Wasted one go on Africa, really – should have just ploughed in

Alba, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:34 (three years ago)

8. I'm reluctant to letter count, but it is kind of silly not to sometimes

rob, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:42 (three years ago)

I solved today's Redactle (#58) in 13 guesses with an accuracy of 61.54%.

joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 3 June 2022 17:43 (three years ago)

You solved it in 20 guesses
Your accuracy was 65.00%
Globally, 5406 players have solved today's Redactle so far

knew is was africa and west but typed those in anyway. guessed nigeria next despite all the 'bordered by' stuff which ruled that out

koogs, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:45 (three years ago)

Alba, how did you know it was an African country just by looking at it?

joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 3 June 2022 17:45 (three years ago)

5, 100% - I counted this time.

papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 3 June 2022 17:59 (three years ago)

Did this one in 9. The Arabic As- prefix told me it was a word starting with an S, but none of the Arabic-speaking countries matched the info, so I thought it might be a province or region or something. I thought of the country in question as well, but too swiftly discarded it as non-Arabic speaking at first without checking against the available info, or I would have defo gotten it in 1, I swear. This was an open goal and I blew it!

butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Friday, 3 June 2022 18:54 (three years ago)

Anagram - the pattern looked like “ is a country in (east/west) (continent)”. People say eastern/western Europe rather than east/west and there aren’t any other six-letter continents. Plus the list in brackets of alternative names suggested a lot of local languages and the “As-“ also didn’t look like a European language.

Alba, Friday, 3 June 2022 19:09 (three years ago)

also one of the bordering countries was hyphenated and looked like a match for guinea-bissau. unfortunately my knowledge of the subject at hand isn't that great, had a few wrong guesses, took a couple to confirm my suspicions. then got an assist from my wife for a cheaty 8.

buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Friday, 3 June 2022 20:18 (three years ago)


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