______ the ____________: Redactle

where's sheila chandra when you need her?

oh, that suddenly took a turn around word 235

#66
You solved it in 254 guesses
Your accuracy was 27.56%
Globally, 6216 players have solved today's Redactle so far

73 but I kinda cheated, once i got rock i could remember igneous and sedimentary but couldn't remember the third type

got there in 414 (39.21%, extremely low) things only got moving once I struck “stone” and then “rock” at 325. needed some Wiki help to find the actual answer tho

119 is that good?

I solved today's Redactle (#66) in 112 guesses with an accuracy of 41.96%.

Global Average: 112.07 Guesses; 43.01% Accuracy

...I was extremely average today.

I solved today's Redactle (#67) in 36 guesses with an accuracy of 58.33%.

Back on track! One thing I've noticed so far is that if "number" shows up, it's still not likely to be a math article.

Got this one in 5. Should have been 3, but I second-guessed my instincts and put in two guesses that went nowhere before going back to my first idea.

#66 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphic_rock

6 for me today - good to see ILX back on track

4 for me, I equivocated between biology and physics even though I'd seen up & down and thought of something particle.

#67 in 64. 64. Was tempted to give up when I realised it was physics so glad it ended up guessable even for me

today in 4, incredibly

i got the 2nd word at 6, am sleeping on the first

Got the second word pretty early, but the first not until 65.

40ish. i moved onto phone after getting the second word at guess 6 so i can't be exact

#67 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_particle

look at all those diagrams, no wonder it was messed up

I solved today's Redactle (#68) in 129 guesses with an accuracy of 37.98%.

Yesterday was a bit of a slog, they'll be taking back my barely-earned physics 2:2.

But today was a hole-in-one, so I can keep my Drama CSE.

#68
You solved it in 23 guesses
Your accuracy was 30.43%
Globally, 5198 players have solved today's Redactle so far

absolutely nothing for the first 9 guesses, only 6 within the first 18.

hole in one but it took a while. clipping was a bit of a head scratcher.

yes, i was surprised at that. also i was looking at the things that were obviously titles, only they were australian things i've not seen and so no help. all the examples seemed a bit odd

Hole in one here too – didn't spend very long looking at it, it just seemed to spring up from my subconscious.

28 (57.14%) was thinking of music and movies first, but that didn’t work out, and then, doing my regular be-been-being-are-was filler thing, Are (blank) Being (blank)? displayed itself. well, yeah

26, slow day I did scan the redacted titles but in fairness I've barely heard of any of the non-UK ones

#68 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitcom

which was bobbins. also this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_sitcom

i mean what are those things? Whack-O! Me Mammy, Clochemerle, Miss Jones and Son, If You See God, Tell Him, The Green Green Grass, who is writing this?

#69
You solved it in 1 guesses
Your accuracy was 100.00%

it's not giving me world stats 8(

1 here too.

Current global stats - median: 38, average: 61.

worst redactle ever

1 also

26 / 61.54%. was hoping it would be “pi”, but no dice, although “3”, “14”, and “π” all had results.

76. That one made me CROSS. Well done, competent players.

Sigh:

#69 397 / 53.90%

I got Asia (and then China/Japan) pretty quickly, but I got really stuck on jewelry when I got all of 1 hit for jade, although that did get me stone. I think I needed program @388 to point me towards computers, at which point I finally realized it was a game.

12. a bit disappointing given I figured out without guessing that it was a two letter word invented in China a few thousand years ago.

also got it in 1

2 - I needed that first guess ("computer") though to narrow things down, it didn't seem obvious to me at first

#69 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)

Got #70 in 4 - shame it had the same letter count as public limited company.

Convinced that this was something to do with long-chain polymers, or some class of protein that can be activated - turned on and off? and then I spent ages trying to make binary or MOSFETs work somehow... all without making a move. I should have just made a list of common three-letter abbreviations. 8, anyway.

#70 265 61.51%

Michael, I also got stuck on chips (I wasn't about to remember MOSFETs though), and even though I got light at 46, I kept thinking it had to do with weight, not photons. And even when I followed the photon trail, I went with fiber optics, then optical devices (even though lasers didn't show up). I think "cell" (as I was filling out variations of cellular) finally pointed me in the right direction with Light REDACTED Cell REDACTED.

lol, 11. my initial thought when i saw it was for some reason maybe a shape or something, like for dice? so i tried the word "game" pretty early but didn't really check the results, as it only had two hits. but then a few guesses later i went back and saw capital-g Game followed by XXX, tried Boy, and figured it out from there

29 I guess I could have thought harder

800 guesses in (a personal record, folx!) and the good news is I’m closing in ever further - I basically have everything, except for the answer, once again proving my absolute ignorance when it comes to technical+technological stuff.

I'm still on 0 guesses. nothing is jumping out at me.

complete opposite of yesterday which i saw immediately the way you sometimes do with anagrams. slightly puzzled by the "on" and "off" but anyway, was ok, but merely ok, when i got started.

You solved it in 19 guesses
Your accuracy was 73.68%
You have solved 1 consecutive Redactles
Globally, 11919 players have solved today's Redactle so far
Global Median: 94.00 Guesses; 57.89% Accuracy
Global Average: 120.88 Guesses; 58.84% Accuracy

(oh meant to delete the 1 consecutive thing - it doesn't keep track across devices)

Speed Redactle for me today (which should be a thing) as I've been busy and just started on it with 15 minutes to go (though I did glance at it yesterday). Did it in 31 guesses with 51% accuracy. Electric was my first guess and light my third, so a good start

#70 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid-crystal_display

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