This one was pretty quick: saw the (_____:) and tried French, Latin, then Greek. Then Greece, then ancient, which yielded nothing, then modern, which gave me Frankenstein, and that + Greece got me to Byron. Still took me 20 guesses because I threw some random words in there at first instead of thinking it out.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 4 June 2022 19:05 (two years ago) link
Solved it in 9, guessed "John" as the first name, thought it might be some kind of ruler and tried "king" and then "lord," my feeling around in the dark strategy worked pretty well.
― JoeStork, Saturday, 4 June 2022 19:19 (two years ago) link
Got there in 7; first guess was poet, figured it was full name, honorific/noble title but got slightly diverted by the dual language transliteration thing - thought it might be Persian or Chinese in which case I would have been clueless. But, duh, nationality started with a vowel so shouldn't have got distracted.
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 4 June 2022 19:35 (two years ago) link
Got it in two! First thoughts were foreign royalty but scrolling through it became clear they were probably a writer, went back to the top and 'poet' looked likely, possibly 'english', and then it just came to me. To be clear this flash of inspiration came after 'reading' the thing for probably half an hour all told.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Saturday, 4 June 2022 20:08 (two years ago) link
(ledge, i have sent you ilx mail)thanks, will take a look when I get on actual computer, probably on monday!
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Saturday, 4 June 2022 21:05 (two years ago) link
on 96 guesses and struggling due to lack of domain knowledge. confused at the start of the first paragraph. will sleep on it.
(book version is pretty much working as long as you don't want to win because i've not written that part yet. might put a link up tomorrow. unlike(?) redactle i do need to prepare the game files (typically extracting one chapter per book), but am trying to make that as easy as possible, 2 minutes each kind of job. i have about 2 months worth downloaded but needing editing.)
― koogs, Saturday, 4 June 2022 21:34 (two years ago) link
???? ????? "poet and ????". but not iain banks, ezra pound, john keats or pamm ayres... absolutely no idea of time period...
― koogs, Saturday, 4 June 2022 21:37 (two years ago) link
The ???? after 'and poet' totally threw me. Maybe doing it on a phone yesterday didn't help but I never got the sense of that first par that might have led me in the direction of the aristocracy
― Alba, Sunday, 5 June 2022 04:40 (two years ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#60) in 1 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%. Après moi, le déluge
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Sunday, 5 June 2022 16:04 (two years ago) link
#59 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron
was too late getting back to it so, fail here.
― koogs, Sunday, 5 June 2022 16:10 (two years ago) link
I joined the 1 club too!
I solved today's Redactle (#60) in 1 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/
Knew it began with a vowel and had 4 letters, the hidden characters with subscripts indicated a chemical. Voila.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 5 June 2022 16:23 (two years ago) link
Redactle #60 in 1 yep!
― Alba, Sunday, 5 June 2022 16:38 (two years ago) link
#60You solved it in 29 guessesYour accuracy was 65.52%Globally, 2856 players have solved today's Redactle so far
started off well with 'atom' but went physics rather than chemistry
― koogs, Sunday, 5 June 2022 17:01 (two years ago) link
(my book version is here: http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/bookish/index.html if you're curious. it isn't finished, am currently working on making it so you can press enter and not have to press the button. it's probably very simple...
if you go to http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/bookish/games.html there are links to 4 previous puzzles (one of the things i don't like about redactle))
i'll make another thread for bug reports etc somewhere, save cluttering up this thread
― koogs, Sunday, 5 June 2022 17:11 (two years ago) link
^ Bookish. it's like redactle but for books. beta testing / bugs etc
― koogs, Sunday, 5 June 2022 17:19 (two years ago) link
One here too.
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 5 June 2022 19:12 (two years ago) link
Got Bookish 0605 in 3, which was absurdly lucky. (If this popped up on another thread, sorry!)
― Tim, Sunday, 5 June 2022 21:42 (two years ago) link
Ah yes I see now there’s a separate Bookish thread. I like it!
― Tim, Sunday, 5 June 2022 21:43 (two years ago) link
#60 in 6 - my guesses didn't help that much, it just didn't click till i started typing some words in.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Monday, 6 June 2022 08:05 (two years ago) link
#60 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid
― koogs, Monday, 6 June 2022 16:00 (two years ago) link
5 today, my best ever.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 6 June 2022 16:18 (two years ago) link
#61: 56 / 69.64%
Nice whenever I get it in fewer guesses than the puzzle number. I did go on a bit of a wild goose chase when China gave me 7 hits, at which point I thought it was an Asian country, but when Pacific was a total miss, I realized I had to go to a different continent.
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Monday, 6 June 2022 16:21 (two years ago) link
i need to read more maps
― koogs, Monday, 6 June 2022 16:24 (two years ago) link
Redactle #61 in 23 (69.57%)
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Monday, 6 June 2022 17:02 (two years ago) link
Got today's in 4; my best yet, I think!
― Lily Dale, Monday, 6 June 2022 18:05 (two years ago) link
14. I did think at first I was looking for five letters, and Egypt was my initial guess, but just couldn't bring Angola to mind
― Alba, Monday, 6 June 2022 19:40 (two years ago) link
3 to figure out I need a six letter West African country and then... well it's not my strong suit.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Monday, 6 June 2022 19:59 (two years ago) link
it turns out that even with a map it takes me three attempts because even though i know it's Western and coastal my first two attempts are zambia and malawi which are neither
― koogs, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 02:29 (two years ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#61) in 7 guesses with an accuracy of 57.14%.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 08:47 (two years ago) link
#61 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola
― koogs, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 16:24 (two years ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#62) in 22 guesses with an accuracy of 63.64%.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 16:29 (two years ago) link
Got it in 2 - American entertainer of some kind (despite singer/writer/actor not fitting, turned out to be creator) with a two letter first name.
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 16:54 (two years ago) link
there goes my theory that it's america specific. struggling to think of two letter first names...
― koogs, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 17:19 (two years ago) link
whoa 2. my first perfecto?? opened a notepad and wrote as many 2 letter first names as i could. saw the first full name was six letters so narrowed it down to Ed or Al. guessed right, then tried to think of an Ed with an 8 letter surname (thankfully checked myself before writing mcmahon)
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 18:11 (two years ago) link
oh my second perfecto. i got red sea in 2 as well i guess
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 18:12 (two years ago) link
oof 99. for some reason I assumed the two-letter first name meant it was initials, v dumb mistake
― rob, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 18:16 (two years ago) link
68. I should have spent longer thinking of two-letter first names after Bo gave me a bit of red herring, but Ed didn't pop into my head and I started to think it wasn't a two-letter name at all but instead initials like PJ that I'd never guess. I see now that Wikipedia does P.J. Proby at least with the full stops but I don't think it's consistent about this – I'm sure I've seen US done like that rather than U.S. Anyway, excuses excuses.
― Alba, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 19:49 (two years ago) link
103 - I guess I had heard of him after all but it didn't spring to mind until I started searching for ethnicities and got "Irish"
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 19:51 (two years ago) link
95. I don't tend to try and guess it right off the bat by counting numbers and so on. I like chipping away at it bit by bit so that it gradually reveals itself.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 20:18 (two years ago) link
4! one to establish gender, one wrong guess of a two-letter first name, then the correct first and last name
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 20:35 (two years ago) link
71 - got reporter, critic, New York Daily News, etc. but I didn't know Ed Sullivan as anything but a variety show host
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 20:36 (two years ago) link
373! My growing suspicion that this was going to be the kind of legendary figure that was *not* a household name outside the US proved to be right. Couldn’t identify his job description for the longest time. Only when I got to TV host it dawned on me that it might the guy from the show that Elvis famously performed on. Also assumed it would be a double-initial name, and didn’t think beyond that.
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 21:01 (two years ago) link
67 admittedly sort of cheated by eventually looking at variety show history despite literally thinking of the answer three minutes earlier. like others i thought the first name had to be initials and i think my brain didn't accept "ed" as a possible answer, it just had to be something stupid like "GK" or "FP" or "EE". i was also stuck on journalism stuff for a while and lucked out with "television" after similar entertainment fields, after guessing "critic."
― ✖, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 00:02 (two years ago) link
#62 was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Sullivan
― koogs, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 17:04 (two years ago) link
63 I thought I was looking for a specific principality or something within the Holy Roman Empire
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 17:17 (two years ago) link
geeeez 190... took me until around 80 to narrow it down to being something related to christianity even. the number of hits for catholic made me go down a catholic rabbithole for a while and didn't occur to me for a while to try protestant stuff.
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 17:58 (two years ago) link
I don't tend to try and guess it right off the bat by counting numbers and so on. I like chipping away at it bit by bit so that it gradually reveals itself.
i find this so much more satisfying, but all of the stats and stuff always push me towards trying to do it quick.
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 18:01 (two years ago) link
Got it in 4, and it would have been 3 if my stupid oversensitive keyboard hadn't written Christianityy as my first guess.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 18:04 (two years ago) link
152 (79.61%) Only noticed the Bible verse notation after guess 98, then I slowly worked my way to the answer
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 18:23 (two years ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#63) in 41 guesses with an accuracy of 85.37%.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 18:31 (two years ago) link