______ the ____________: Redactle

i cheated.

chemistry @ guess 237. fml

wtf, has the article changed? i swear i had an entire sentence from the first paragraph revealed and now it's not there

something like "is the combination of art and science" but i'm only getting a 1 on 'art' now, for the 'state-of-the-art' thing

#88
You solved it in 275 guesses
Your accuracy was 48.36%
Globally, 3362 players have solved today's Redactle so far
Global Median: 62.00 Guesses; 51.05% Accuracy
Global Average: 87.93 Guesses; 52.44% Accuracy

and i was right about the changes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Analytical_chemistry&diff=1096328559&oldid=1092671594

I solved today's Redactle (#88) in 270 guesses with an accuracy of 46.67%. silly of me, I had the big-scoring “analysis” at 141, but somehow forgot to take the logical next step

ha ha, koogs, 🤝 - beat you by 5 tho!

Koogs - did you switch devices? I'm surprised if Redactle mirrors edits made during the 24hr that article is the source, I would've thought it was a static snapshot. This is hard enough without a moving target!

yeah, that puzzled me too but i did navigate away accidentally and then back again so it probably happened then.

i mean, what are the chances? (i wonder if the uptick in traffic is noticeable? also, i have been tempted to edit a page after seeing it in redactle, albeit only to fix broken links. unfortunately my isp is blocked until 2024...)

#88 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_chemistry

I solved today's Redactle (#89) in 183 guesses with an accuracy of 52.46%.

I solved today's Redactle (#89) in 280 guesses with an accuracy of 43.57%.

43 guesses, 41.68%. my more or less random guess of writing at 39 was the key.

346 and none the wiser as to what it could be, going down some dead ends.

#89
You solved it in 14 guesses
Your accuracy was 78.57%
Globally, 7293 players have solved today's Redactle so far
Global Median: 90.00 Guesses; 46.43% Accuracy
Global Average: 111.77 Guesses; 48.21% Accuracy

#89 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desk

part of me thinks that #90 is doable in 2. but it's LONG and the list of things towards the end isn't sparking any joy ideas

did this one in 39 (71,79%). got who it was at guess 29, but struggled to get the first name right, so I cheated

somehow got it in 9, realized it was a person early on, tried king/leader/president and got hits, realized it was president of 11 letters, confirmed philippines... then it was just remembering his first name lol (tried fernando with my 8th guess oops)

that was how I had remembered his first name as well lol

got it in 9 with a bit of bet-hedging.

236, cheated.

112 / 55.36%

Fairly confident that it was a person, but China and Chinese and Taiwan all sent me in the wrong direction for quite some time.

In 2. Definite article 11-letter nation was the key.

80 / 76.67%, spent too long just knocking out words i knew were in there because to me that is "fun" i guess

#90 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Marcos

(gave up on 45) had the first name, accidentally - all the assassination talk and wwii made me try franz ferdinand... but i was going in the wrong (spanish, latin-american) direction and might't've got there eventually but it's 10 to 5

170 today and it ended in cheating because i would have never gotten there. spent about 70 words on stuff related to different biomes and then another 50 or so on weather/wind/currents/etc, said screw it and searched "precipitation by latitude". now i guess i'll read the article and learn something I GUESS

and when i say "i would never have gotten there" i mean i have never heard of this guy, or this effect, or any of it. also is it just me or is the expansion section written weirdly? i was confused by rainforest being two words at first, and reading it now it doesn't "read" like wikipedia.

feel like i know everything about today's, other than the title

This is the German philosopher all over again. I've got the second word. I can't spend the rest of the evening guessing surnames of meteorlogists.

same - took me 120 guesses to get the second word after belt, zone, band, area all struck out, and I'm still not even sure what this thing is other than something to do with air.

ditto about this being a thing, and still have not title words

it's not an area or a zone or a line or a point or a layer. it's not a belt or a ring or a front. i don't remember it ever being mentioned in o'level geography and it feels like it should've been.

odd that i tried 'coriolis' about 50 attempts before 'water'...

#91 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadley_cell

shrug emoji

back in the 1 club.

#92 101 / 52.48%

I had evaporates at 34 which only had 1 hit -- it's kind of an annoying wrinkle of this game when different parts of speech of the article title aren't really represented in the body.

I had vapor at guess 12 but it took me until 60 to get it.

18 here, wasted a bunch of early guesses on far-too-wide words like "science" before trying gas, then sublimation, then liquid, then evaporation

2

sublimation 8( that's what you get for being a smart arse

seems to be down today -- is it hosted in Canada?

#92 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporation

the comment suggests (to me) it's the wikipedia aspect that isn't working - the page itself looks fine

but i can see the 3KB download from wikipedia working

but if you go there (spoilers!) the page is an ambiguation page with just 5 links

I tried a random word on the phone (with a blank page loaded) and it told me I'd solved it in 1 guess, with 0% accuracy. The stats (after 541 ppl) are 1.12, 0.22% avg, so it's possibly worked for a couple of people.

ha, yes, in one with grotbags

the page it's trying to load (spoilers) is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_period

didn't work for me with 'shoes', or something more plausible (this, that, then).

That means those words are unredacted then, possibly?

Truly this is the hardest one yet. Not even showing us the article and having it to piece it together from hundreds of ppl’s experiences of what happens when you try a random word - it’s next level stuff. Hats off. :)

Can’t get it to open, tried different browsers on different hardware.

ok, tried it again this morning, on my phone, and it's playable now but still the same disambiguation page so really short

Got today's in two after spending a short while wondering if the atlantic ocean has arms.

I solved today's Redactle (#94) in 52 guesses with an accuracy of 57.69%.