______ the ____________: Redactle

#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

34, 91%

65. am more used to seeing it spelled with an S at the end so that took a little figuring out

#71
You solved it in 1 guesses
Your accuracy was 100.00%
Globally, 5072 players have solved today's Redactle so far
Global Median: 52.00 Guesses; 72.92% Accuracy
Global Average: 70.01 Guesses; 72.39% Accuracy

so, i guessed "it is located on the coast of the ???? of ????, (part) of the Mediterranean Sea, near the (mouth)" only i had east/west and coast. and given the only thing i know about Marseille is the count of monte-cristo i looked the that in the Popular Culture section and found it. Only that was actually "The Abbey of Saint-Victor" in the "Central Marseille" section. so absolute dumb luck.

Oh that is good going, koogs!

21 here. All those hyphens made me think of Arabic place names. I suppose I have to get better at identifying all the possible administrative sub-divisions... prefecture, my arse.

21, I figured out it was a city after 6 but like Mike was convinced it was somewhere closer to Africa or the Middle East. Wasted guesses on north, south, east and west trying to locate it in the mediterranean. I was almost led astray by the hits for football, after I guessed united and saw what looked like (and was) Manchester United.

#71 214 / 59.81%

No such thing as a wasted guess when you're a sightseer with a guess count as high as mine (typos notwithstanding).

#71 31 / 80.95%

Well done, koogs!

Got French after 6 so probably should have nailed it sooner.

I was put off it being a city by it not having city in the first paragraph. Must learn to open my mind a bit on formats of these things. Prefecture my arse, indeed.

having great fun *not* trying to solve this one. I mean, the answer became clear soon enough although I was stuck on Toulouse for a little while, but I decided not to enter it and try filling out as much of the text as I possibly could. 1317 guesses so far, and I’m still finding new things. will I get everything? no, I have other things to do (like a job lol), and I obviously wouldn’t know everything anyway. the funnest part was trying to identify the two sets of twin cities at the end. enough clues to make it doable. got ‘em all in the end, apart from the city in Togo (its capital probably), which starts with an L and probably has four letters, but my brain isn’t giving me any Togo cities at all. but it was a fun little game within a game.

Hah! If that's not exploration I don't know what is!

i got it in 5, but if i had guts i coulda made it 1 or 2 - i saw the xxxxx-xx-xxxxxxx construction and thought "that middle part could be 'du'" -- like a french name -- so i guessed du, then quebec, then france, then city to confirm it was in fact a city in france. then my first guess was the answer

#71 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marseille (in one, bitches!)

82 today, fish were not biting

Redactle #71 in 18 guesses, 27.78% accuracy. Let there be light guesses

Sorry, Redactle #72, I mean

114! took me 110 to guess light and that was a stab in the um dark.

took 41 but i should have gotten there way sooner. i had reflective on 13! (because i tried anti early and thought it might fit one of the "anti"s) - had light by 25, tried rainbow with my second last guess knowing it'd be there. just typing faster than i was deducing!

too easy today

i missed yesterday's. optical fibres, total internal reflection, refractive index etc, but it couldn't, and still can't, think of a 5 letter word that would be a wikipedia article about all this stuff without something following it in brackets. tried fibre, both spellings.

#72 was ?????

#73
You solved it in 13 guesses
Your accuracy was 69.23%
Globally, 3052 players have solved today's Redactle so far
Global Median: 23.00 Guesses; 75.76% Accuracy
Global Average: 37.87 Guesses; 76.09% Accuracy

"Ben and Jerry" or "Tom and Jerry"?

#72 was prism. Currently stuck with ren and stimpy in my head for #73 (it don't fit).

4, 75% - I didn't count letters and thought it might be Oryx & Crake

i don't like the way yesterday's redactle just disappears like that.

am also pretty sure i tried that word, but there's no way of proving it.

3 - ren and stimpy got me stuck thinking it was two names, nothing else came to mind (apart from cagney and lacey, dalziel and pascoe, starsky and hutch...) so I guessed 'novel', then after a short while the penny dropped .

got it straight off (2) might as well brag for once

agree with seandalai. had this one at first sight.

xp lol

xps rather