______ the ____________: Redactle

#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

bit of an annoying code issue, long suspected, today confirmed: not all apostrophes are the same to Redactle. it accepts (') but not (’): iow it would accept “Martha's [Vineyard]”, but not “Martha’s [Vineyard]”.
unfortunately, on my iPhone at least, the apostrophe is entered as (’) in Redactle, so I have to c+p the (') version.

#80 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Judaism

a bust here

yeah I gave up after about 100 having guessed judaism but no hope of getting the rest.

today's in 67 - I had library at 50.

Got there in 45. That single hit for organism early on was a real puzzler!

got there in my own sweet time again: 386 guesses /39.90%. not exactly proud of this one though, should have gotten there a lot sooner

still struggling. 195 guesses and i don't have enough to even cheat yet.

i finally got enough to cheat 8(

#81 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive

#82 in 13 guesses, 61.54%. Can't be unhappy with that, though I shouldn't have persisted in guessing axe and saw after tool and weapon already turned up blank.

#82
You solved it in 134 guesses
Globally, 2664 players have solved today's Redactle so far
Global Median: 103.50 Guesses; 36.23% Accuracy
Global Average: 129.62 Guesses; 38.77% Accuracy

uninspired but the first one i've got in 3 days...

^ 26% 8(

I solved today's Redactle (#82) in 219 guesses with an accuracy of 47.03%.

skipped yesterday, 65 today - tried weapon and soldier early on for no hits, so I drifted around other topics for a while

#82 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battering_ram

You solved it in 1 guesses
Your accuracy was 100.00%
Globally, 3029 players have solved today's Redactle so far
Global Median: 32.00 Guesses; 48.89% Accuracy
Global Average: 43.93 Guesses; 53.49% Accuracy

no half measures. i either struggle or this happens.

#83 in 11 - didn't see it at first

1 for me.

Here too! Nice after two fairly high scoring days.

lmfao, got #83 in 91 / 21.98%
i unlocked "fast" and "food" early and just kept guessing dumb shit because i could not come up with anything where XXXXX and XXX were opposites (4th paragraph) until about 10 mins later, at this point i said out loud at my computer "oh my god" and typed the correct answer

#83 23 / 34.78%

Got really lucky! I had daylight @20 thinking maybe it had something to do with DST, and followed up with night for some reason I can't remember at this point.

14 guesses for me. too bad, could have been a 1-guesser or close to it. thought it might be “sun” and “horizon” and then thought of “night” right at the outset, but couldn’t make the alternative names bracket make sense, so didn’t go straight for it

#83 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night

5! Gonna feel good about that until everyone else posts.

You can carry on feeling good about it. 269.

6! Felt good about that until I read seandalai’s post.

just kidding, feels very good. got lucky, tried “music” first - gotta start somewhere - got 1 hit, and then “video” looked like it might be worth a shot

#84 56 / 58.93%

14 for me, got the first word in ten then took ridiculously long for the penny to drop.

35, got way into the weeds early with displays and connector types and stuff, which is funny because i didn't get the word 'video' until the last word... so dumb

3.

It was over-the-top which was the key for me.

52, fussed around with construction, farming, home appliance type guesses for awhile due to all the "through the", "via the", "inside of the" type stuff that was revealed until "man" gave me "___-man" and it was over quick

It was [show hidden text] which was the key for me.

wow :) I have no idea how one makes that connection, but super impressive!

(my 5 was mostly luck)

oh my days

#84
You solved it in 92 guesses
Your accuracy was 63.04%
Globally, 16349 players have solved today's Redactle so far
Global Median: 87.00 Guesses; 52.51% Accuracy
Global Average: 113.65 Guesses; 54.19% Accuracy

4! happy enough

#84 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console

I got the first word in one guess. 29 guesses later I have most of the first paragraph but still little clue about the rest of the actual title.

New styling? Also their SSL(?) cert needs renewing or something.

Had to cheat for the last word thought it was something sciencey then figured out math, no idea how I would have gotten to fundamental without cheating

Reloading the page the CSS loads back in.

#85 51 / 68.63%

46, 73.91%. guesses 2-44 were almost entirely redundant.

#85 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_algebra

i swapped devices halfway through. got it in 10 (on the second device)