______ the ____________: Redactle

For a while I was sure I know who it was but couldn't remember their name, now I'm sure it's someone else but I can't remember their name either

I finally remembered their name, it wasn't them :(

back to trying random short German first names - It's not Uli or Ulf

I got the first word but it still gave me nothing, so I gave up...never heard of the guy

Today's seems to be cut off partway through. I solved it but the article is incomplete.

yeah I was confused when egg and eggs didn't show up at all, plus really low hit counts on other related terms

Yeah, it seems to be an embedded sound file which has broken the article.

I thought it was a geographical feature at first but the range of lengths should have been a pointer to fauna.

#76 Had to cheat again (sigh), 323 / 29.72%. Pretty gross numbers, even for me.

#76 is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_robin

You solved it in 84 guesses
Your accuracy was 40.48%
Globally, 4930 players have solved today's Redactle so far
Global Median: 89.00 Guesses; 36.24% Accuracy
Global Average: 109.85 Guesses; 38.41% Accuracy

quite terrible thought it was a country / city for ~90% of that

Again I am sure I know what it is but I don't know what it's called (I have the second word but the first may be unknowable)

Sean, I had the first word instead. Try some geographical names.

got it in 50 wasted a lot of time at the beginning because I thought I was looking for a river or a ridge or some other geological feature

snap MJ

of course the magic word species would have been a lot of help

90 something on my phone, terrible hit percentage because yeah no species, no egg, can't remember if I tried avian?

That's weird, I got 4 hits for species and 5 for subspecies.

yeah I was saying that I should have tried it earlier

lol my reading comprehension is bad today.

just looked at my phone, species did hit but something else made me think plant or bacteria for a while

Also doing this on the phone instead of a big screen sucks.

glad I wasn't the only one who spent ages thinking it was a large geographical feature. even when it seemed to protude southwards to north africa. hmm. basin? when the penny finally dropped after 70 guesses i still had to cheat for the first word. also "with an orange breast", fuck off![

#77 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_(optics)

You solved it in 35 guesses
Your accuracy was 37.14%
Globally, 2183 players have solved today's Redactle so far
Global Median: 70.00 Guesses; 20.59% Accuracy
Global Average: 88.51 Guesses; 25.26% Accuracy

Short one.

bit of deja vu there. not that it helped my numbers

shit. mod request sent.

my results: 140 guesses, 10% accuracy, had to cheat with the very limited words i even managed to get. i was getting NOTHING from this one. ended up searching "passes through one of", lol. just so few words to work with! i usually guess light at some point though and didn't this time so it's on me

94, 12% - got lucky with light, then only got focus because the only optics related things I could think of were eyeglasses and camera lenses

In one today.

astounding. 9 for me.

> In one today.

i'd've bet money on this

Good work! 29 for me, my first guess was "physics" and that got 0 so I wandered around for a while

#78 279 / 57.71%

Had to cheat even though I had both "food" and "borne" by 132.

Again I am sure I know what it is but I don't know what it's called

― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Tuesday, 21 June 2022 19:49 (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Got today's in 8. That strange unredacted <500 colony thing tipped me off that we were talking about bacteria or reproduction or contamination and I was lucky that my fifth guess was the second word.

92 and counting. having trouble getting it over the line.

I had disease in 13, food in ... 165. Gave up 20 guesses later. I've lost my mojo, third > 100 in four games.

almost cheated but tried a few more and got it in 147! somehow didn't use one of my usual early guesses -- food -- until 40. not that it helped me close, lol. seeing what looked like the fda sorta sent me in the right direction, but i focused too much on the enforcement of safety stuff and less on what people might be enforcing it for

I was close to this one early and it still took me something like 140 guesses just bc I couldn't figure out exactly what the first word was

screaming habdabs?

got it in 32, not 100% convinced that foodborne really is a word but there we are

hit it in 74, had "disease" around 20 but just kept mostly striking out on medical terminology while trying to narrow it down until "food" blew things open

gave up. i'm not sure that's a phrase anybody has ever used

One today.

#78 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foodborne_illness which is not a thing

Also a 1 for me! Exciting to be in such lofty company.

I'm back in the club.

knowing that it's possible in 1 makes just taking random guesses all the harder

one of four things, but what things? the ??? in the list is making it difficult. not quarks, not card suits, not months, not seasons, not little women...

12, one of my lower totals. To be honest I never even try to get it in the lowest number of guesses, I just give the text a quick glance and start guessing and see where it takes me.

#79 in 12 @ 75%

knew it was states of something but went too specific, figuring the three letter state was ice and the something was water so started with steam for 0 which threw me

#79 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid

16 today. Good job it wasn't the non-North American definition because I've never heard of that.

I had no idea at all what was going on until 86 in...now I'm racking my brain for words that might fit

I solved today's Redactle (#80) in 622 guesses with an accuracy of 61.25%. my first guess was “law”, and that was the track I stayed on mentally, even when I got to “religious” at some point. got the “conservative” part pretty soon thereafter, but never thought to try beyond Christianity, even though Christianity-related words scored suspiciously low. only after I tried “Judeo” (0 hits!) and then “Jewish” I had my epiphany