______ the ____________: Redactle

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 25 guesses with an accuracy of 84% and a time of 00:11:51 but I thought of it about ten guesses earlier. always guess what you're thinking!

What was Saturday's one (the one with world/universe/space clues littered about)? I never did work it out.

nature (that was Friday’s tho, Saturday’s was Banks Island)

ha yes and thankyou. I would never have worked that out wtf.

I solved today's Redactle (#229) in 69 guesses with an accuracy of 75.36%.
Europe at #8, European at #11, then I twiddled around with economic and financial stuff until hitting bank at #67 and investment at #69. I did not know that such a body existed - and I used to do IT for investment banks, which shows you how much I was paying attention...

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 12 guesses with an accuracy of 91.67% and a time of 00:11:08. needed a couple of guesses for the middle word, but all in all an easy one - what with all the € clues

You solved Redactle Unlimited in 197 guesses with 47.72% accuracy and a time of 00:13:12!

Not so easy for this American: I needed till 150 to get "bank", as I kept thinking that it was a skyscraper or something. Then I got European, but had no clue on the middle word, so I actually ended up brute-forcing my way to figuring out that the acronym is EIB.

I'm european and I cant get it :(

well I guess technically i'm not anymore, maybe that's why.

what was it then?

(looks at hidden text) ugh

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 1 guesses with an accuracy of 100% and a time of 00:13:53!!!!!

awesome. I on the other hand am a doofus. I solved Redactle Unlimited in 28 guesses with an accuracy of 64.29% and a time of 00:18:20.

You solved Redactle Unlimited in 56 guesses with 71.43% accuracy and a time of 00:02:52!

Gah. Another one I should have got 20 guesses sooner than I did (as soon as I guessed the country). I was thrown by having found music/theatre/church.

BC how did you get it in one ffs!

it was an informed guess!

and since you asked for it, the thought process behind it went sth like this:
from the introductory section I got very strong “capital city” vibes right away - a city with a non-English name, as indicated by the italicized box between brackets right behind its English Wikipedia name there. so it could be basically any capital city in the world (but notably, not an Arab one, because an Arab city name would have a definite article prefixed to it, like “al-“, or even a visible “an-“)

btw, the capital city vibes thing was fresh in my mind from the day before, but there it got me fooled when it turned out to be “investment bank” instead - my first guess there had actually been “city” iirc

in this case tho, the short climate section (clear from the visible °* degree symbols) confirmed that this was about a geographical entity.

but then, scrolling further down to look for any kind of clue, inadvertent or not, all I came across, surprisingly and confusingly given my first impression, were a) several instances of capitalised “The” within a sentence (probably indicating names of specific locations in this city) and b) several £ symbols. this very strongly suggested not just an English-speaking country, but one that was part of the UK. hey ho!

returning to the top of the page, ‘Edinburgh’ seemed to fit the length of the box (I never check the letter count), as opposed to ‘London’, ‘Cardiff’ or ‘Belfast’. result!

still, it all hinged on the capital city hunch being right, and I hadn’t bothered to scrutinize it - I could have fallen flat on my face, once again. so yeah, it was an informed guess and I got lucky.

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 71 guesses with an accuracy of 45.07% and a time of 00:32:48.

fluked the second word in 10, fluked the first as well.

found the second word at 194. onwards and upwards!

You solved Redactle Unlimited in 410 guesses with 29.76% accuracy and a time of 00:28:35!

*sigh* cheated to get the second word.

I'm hitting about an 80% fail rate so far and NO idea whatsoever what this one is :(

OK ot it after some minor googling and chance word-flailing, but I have NO idea what this thing is, never heard of it.

186 guesses, 25.81% accuracy. terrible.

232: You solved Redactle Unlimited in 37 guesses with 64.86% accuracy and a time of 00:04:44!

A palate cleanser compared to yesterday!

Yes much easier :) 28 GUesses 75% this time.

49 - book was my first guess but it took me another 40 to get to character.

I’m back to being a mere mortal - I solved Redactle Unlimited in 77 guesses with an accuracy of 84.42% and a time of 00:15:13.

233: You solved Redactle Unlimited in 125 guesses with 58.4% accuracy and a time of 00:12:27!

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 20 guesses with an accuracy of 35% and a time of 00:22:14.

wasted most of my guesses assuming the fourth word was chemistry.

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 288 guesses with an accuracy of 56.94% and a time of 01:01:39. I did this by cheating.

234: I solved Redactle Unlimited in 95 guesses with an accuracy of 63.16% and a time of 00:09:41. Play at https://redactle-unlimited.com/

Pretty much hit the limits of my chemistry knowledge with this one.

gave up.

cheated and solved Redactle Unlimited in 264 guesses with an accuracy of 58.33% and a time of 01:04:40. in hindsight, this was gettable after all, even for a chemistry dumbass like me. should have tried “carbonate” - I mean, I had “carbon” - and the other element wasn’t exactly obscure either

235: I solved Redactle Unlimited in 187 guesses with an accuracy of 66.84% and a time of 00:25:57. Play at https://redactle-unlimited.com/

I totally went on a whirlwind trip with this one! Once I "narrowed" things down to Asia, I was still puzzled why i got so many hits for Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. I also want getting much from the first paragraph, and I was actually focused on one of the subsections when I accidentally revealed both answers.

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 37 guesses with an accuracy of 67.57% and a time of 00:10:48.
”Cultural ***” led to China and Asia, the other words followed quickly from that

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 26 guesses with an accuracy of 85.19% and a time of 00:20:06.

asia then religion, lots of head scratching when all the hits for religion were in the second para and the first remained utterly obscure.

236: You solved Redactle Unlimited in 69 guesses with 63.77% accuracy and a time of 00:08:14!

I got hits for author, film, and director, which sent me on a very wild goose chase.

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 4 guesses with an accuracy of 100% and a time of 00:01:02. Play at https://redactle-unlimited.com/

Best one in a long, long while. Could see it was a man from dates. First sentence has phrase “at the ____ of his”, guessed it was Time. A little way down is italicised ‘A _____ _______ of Time’, which I guessed would be ‘A Brief History of Time’, so knew it was Stephen Hawking.

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 100% and a time of 00:05:36.

[one of the book titles looked like it might be a ____ history of ____ so I guessed that thinking it might be a historian but once the word appeared it was obvious.

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 46 guesses with an accuracy of 84.78% and a time of 00:24:04.
got to ‘A Brief History of Time’ around guess #25, but had to rack my brain for another 20 to remember who it was by and what their actual name was, because I can be slow like that

i did the exact same thing as leee, wasn't until fiction came up near empty that i was like hm let's reassess, why is time in here so much"

Got it in 33, I was on the TV/science track but when I added Star Trek and Sagan that made it click.

18 suck it

Oh ppl got 3 and 4 above don’t suck it at all!!!

8, would've been 7 if my keyboard worked better

got it in 44, which frankly, my dear, is not very impressive at all.

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 29 guesses with an accuracy of 68.97% and a time of 00:31:30.

had absolutely no clue whatsoever until I guessed news at 23.

237: You solved Redactle Unlimited in 10 guesses with 90% accuracy and a time of 00:00:32!

Because of the italicized title, my first suspicion was that it was the NY Times, but seeing that that wasn't the answer but NY still had a lot of hits, I knew I was in the right place. However, I did guess "journal" thinking maybe it was an academic publication.

wait howdid you know re italicized?

The boxes were slanted, in addition to the unredacted The.

Man I need to pay more attention haha.

First time I've played in a while I was thrown off by the italics, I don't think of italicizing newspapers