______ the ____________: Redactle

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

3. first guess was tom (ie tom and jerry)

from the stuff in between brackets right after the title it was clear that it wasn’t going to be an English-language thing

got it in 6, my best showing yet

Xxp lol thought the same thing, got it in 18

Wanted to show my gf how the game works today but we both got it in 2 almost immediately so it was a bad example

hahahah here I was coming to brag that I got this one in 11 guesses ... y'all are so great at this. I had to spend a few guesses determining it wasn't German or French -- Being and Time or one of the many "thing and thing" titles by Foucault

Tbf I wouldn't even say I did a good job I just saw 3 and 5 and the first thing that came to me was war and peace. If it was literally anything else I would have been stumped

sarahell: Being and Time is Heidegger, no?

my first guess was tom and jerry

highlight an entire paragraph of a redactle work in progress (this was in Linux Firefox) and it looks like the cover of autechre's quaristice

xp Leee written in German, yeah?

Oh sorry, I think I misread your post! But yes, that's the case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KT-r2vHeMM

Got it in 7 which is by far my best result so far.

Boy what a terrible song. Haven't heard it or thought about it in ages but it did pop into my consciousness when I counted the letters in this redactle.

Redactle #73 in 5, 80% accuracy. Totally useless first three guesses then it came to me.

#74 in 6

49, 85.71%

#73 was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace

191 for me (71.20%)

1! It was the only interdisciplinary branch of computer science and engineering I could think of and there were an awful lot of five-letter words kicking off sections further down.

I've never managed to ace it three days in a row, so tomorrow will be a slog, I'm sure.

You solved it in 25 guesses
Your accuracy was 56.00%
Globally, 2355 players have solved today's Redactle so far
Global Median: 73.00 Guesses; 65.41% Accuracy
Global Average: 96.20 Guesses; 65.90% Accuracy

messed around for a while there then went for the three letter acronym guessed e thinking bce which was wrong but did give me ????-e. couldn't be wall-e, right? it was. and the tla turned out to be r.u.r...

mike, it was the only interdisciplinary branch of computer science and engineering I could think of  - how on earth did you figure out those words though?!

11 for me, also via wall-e via e, after being at a loss when film, novel, book and song all were duds. l almost tried play, don't know if I'd have got r.u.r. if I had.

Ledge, some days I can see those patterns and some days I can’t see anything in the opening paragraph. I think we’ve had that particular 17-letter adjective before?

the top paragraph did look very black today, and long black words at that.

the mysterious pink text at the bottom remains a mystery.