Redactle #23 in 39, I got lucky.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Friday, 29 April 2022 19:05 (two years ago) link
I think my big problem with Redactle is that I enjoy filling in the blanks more than trying to work out the title. Maybe I need a game where it's "get as many of the words as you can in x minutes" and your score is the percentage you get right?
― emil.y, Friday, 29 April 2022 19:11 (two years ago) link
^wordle 313 or 314?
314
― Carnegie Felon (Leee), Friday, 29 April 2022 20:24 (two years ago) link
Redactle #23 in 31 with 70.97% accuracy. The form of that first paragraph really threw me though – it didn't look like an introductory definition and I wondered if it was some weird bit of description of an illustration or something. I actually got nothing much but filler by guess 25 and then it went types > size > metric > measure > metal > screw, bingo
― Alba, Friday, 29 April 2022 20:49 (two years ago) link
Redactle #23 in 186 with 61.83% accuracy, another stellar performance, just taking my time, patiently circling the prey.
― middot • is • my • middle • name (breastcrawl), Friday, 29 April 2022 21:07 (two years ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#23) in 81 guesses with an accuracy of 39.51%.
I knew it was related to factories 13 guesses in and it still took me another 68 guesses. Look it's been a long week.
― brisk money (lukas), Friday, 29 April 2022 22:05 (two years ago) link
For Redactle 23, I really went down a cul de sac when my first guess was number (5) and soon thereafter integer (2), so I was convinced for another 200+ guesses that I was wandering the math wilderness.
― Carnegie Felon (Leee), Saturday, 30 April 2022 00:14 (two years ago) link
Redactle #24 in 44 guesses, with accuracy 63.64%.
― Alba, Saturday, 30 April 2022 17:09 (two years ago) link
question (hiding in case it reveals anything about today’s puzzle)
what does it mean if, in a given row, i have one green square and one yellow square for a given letter?
what about one yellow and one grey square?
my instinct is that one green one yellow means that letter appears a second time just not in the yellow position, and one yellow one green means the letter appears only once, and neither in the yellow or grey box. but im not sure. also wondering if there is any information contained in which box is yellow/grey
― flopson, Saturday, 30 April 2022 17:41 (two years ago) link
oops didn’t realize hide didn’t wrap around paragraphs
― flopson, Saturday, 30 April 2022 17:42 (two years ago) link
my instinct is that one green one yellow means that letter appears a second time just not in the yellow position, and one yellow one green means the letter appears only once, and neither in the yellow or grey box.
assuming your last "green" should be "grey" then yeah that's right
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Saturday, 30 April 2022 17:43 (two years ago) link
been really enjoying myself the past two days with the box office variation of wordle:
https://boxofficega.me/
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 30 April 2022 17:44 (two years ago) link
Redactle #24 in 13 guesses, 92.31%
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Saturday, 30 April 2022 19:10 (two years ago) link
24 ???????? 107 56.07%
ran around the houses, as usual. then had an epiphany whilst in the kitchen making tea
― koogs, Saturday, 30 April 2022 19:37 (two years ago) link
does middle ages appear in every Wikipedia article? also ancient rome
― koogs, Saturday, 30 April 2022 19:39 (two years ago) link
Redactle took me so so many guesses today, I guessed the plural of the solution and got many happy returns but it never occurred to me to try the singular and so I was guessing and guessing and guessing
― a legible shriek (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 30 April 2022 20:17 (two years ago) link
weird, today’s Redactle answer consists of only one box. I thought for sure it had to be “Swinging on a Star”. I mean, like:A pig is an animal with dirt on his face. His shoes are a terrible disgrace. He has no manners when he eats his food. He's fat and lazy and extremely rude. But if you don't care a feather or a fig, you may grow up to be a pig. totally fits!
― middot • is • my • middle • name (breastcrawl), Saturday, 30 April 2022 23:27 (two years ago) link
anyways, solved Redactle #24 in a mere 273 guesses (48.72%)
― middot • is • my • middle • name (breastcrawl), Sunday, 1 May 2022 00:17 (two years ago) link
I've been enjoying boxofficega.me as well. I'm pretty good at it as long as the date is before 2010. It's crazy how many successful movies I've never heard of have been released since I became a father.
― silverfish, Sunday, 1 May 2022 00:49 (two years ago) link
oof, that one is impossible for me. I got one right off the bat and had zero idea about the others. I thought the box office winner came out years before!
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 1 May 2022 00:59 (two years ago) link
I generally need to reveal the tagline and genre before being able to guess, if I still have no idea I reveal first actor.
― silverfish, Sunday, 1 May 2022 01:48 (two years ago) link
Ah, I somehow didn’t spot the hints feature. Got one yesterday quite quickly then was flailing around.
― Alba, Sunday, 1 May 2022 06:28 (two years ago) link
Ha - pretty much same today despite using the hints. Got one straight away then no others except a couple of others when I revealed all the hints and lost all points. Should have got The Martian though.
― Alba, Sunday, 1 May 2022 07:00 (two years ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#25) in 45 guesses with an accuracy of 71.11%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/
― Human-shaped trash bag (Leee), Sunday, 1 May 2022 17:48 (two years ago) link
fucking fuck. general knowledge letting me down.
― koogs, Sunday, 1 May 2022 18:27 (two years ago) link
Oh redeactle is fun. 69 guesses, 58% accuracy .
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 1 May 2022 19:02 (two years ago) link
this one was pretty easy for me compared to yesterday's which took forever... got that it was a large inhabited place pretty early because i usually guess "popular" and "culture" to get "in popular culture," and i got just a plain "culture" section instead which is very helpful. originally assumed country, and i guess i cheated? by looking at a list of african countries and guessing all the five letter ones. i don't know if that counts as cheating in the general consensus. i probably should've tried a little harder to think of them. and then when i figured it was a city i had to dig a little more, because i'm ignorant about african geography and never would've thought of the answer without help
words i now throw in automatically at the beginning of every game:
bearewerethisthattherehavewillsuch
some of these are ridiculous, especially the first three which are literally forms of "is." i've been assuming the dev would add some more common words and some other QOL things you'd expect (like a give up button), but he's been mysteriously AWOL from both of his twitter accounts and reddit for weeks. not that i expect anything from a free game, at this point i'm just getting concerned about the guy.
― ✖, Sunday, 1 May 2022 19:04 (two years ago) link
I used to guess some of those common words and others but now I think it just ups the score without gaining anything - you might fill out some sentences but the critical words will still be a mystery. Got today's in 28, not that I take that as proof of the above strategy which I've only just started on!
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Sunday, 1 May 2022 19:23 (two years ago) link
looked up the answer at 156 having got as far as "most populous city in Nigeria"
― koogs, Sunday, 1 May 2022 19:53 (two years ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#25) in 9 guesses with an accuracy of 77.78%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/
― JoeStork, Sunday, 1 May 2022 20:12 (two years ago) link
I'm not sure where the cheating line is with these. it's certainly wrong to Google phrases in the answer to find the exact page they are taken from but what about narrowing it down to an exact thing, an Australian animal say, and then looking up a list of those?
― koogs, Sunday, 1 May 2022 20:13 (two years ago) link
I don’t do any of that, unless I’ve given up. I got today’s in 11. Might be the first time I’ve pretty much read the form of the first sentence from the outset.
― Alba, Sunday, 1 May 2022 20:25 (two years ago) link
like with Chopin, you narrow it down to a single proper noun but aren't that up on your polish composers. it stops being a word puzzle and becomes general knowledge.
― koogs, Sunday, 1 May 2022 20:32 (two years ago) link
the other thing I've noticed is that it's harder on my phone because the squares are physically bigger, wider than the letters, so you can't see exactly how long the redacted words are. (also the keyboard and the guess box fight with each other)
― koogs, Sunday, 1 May 2022 20:35 (two years ago) link
on my ancient samsung the input box is about one pixel high, hitting it is half the game. i can select blank squares to see how long the words are though.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Sunday, 1 May 2022 20:39 (two years ago) link
― Alba, Sunday, 1 May 2022 20:47 (two years ago) link
You mean the Inca one?
I think that Redactle is definitely a knowledge game, just like Worldle is a geography game.
― Human-shaped trash bag (Leee), Sunday, 1 May 2022 21:09 (two years ago) link
Inca one, sorry. I’m clearly not adding to my general knowledge very well.
― Alba, Monday, 2 May 2022 05:11 (two years ago) link
Annoying that, given the open-source nature of Wikipedia, that the dating conventions are inconsistent, e.g. AD and BC vs. CE and BCE.
― Human-shaped trash bag (Leee), Monday, 2 May 2022 16:15 (two years ago) link
like with Chopin, you narrow it down to a single proper noun but aren't that up on your polish composers. it stops being a word puzzle and becomes general knowledge.― koogs, Sunday, 1 May 2022 20:32 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― koogs, Sunday, 1 May 2022 20:32 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
feeling this today...I've got Babylon, Assyria, Mesopotamia and am now wracking my brain for other place names
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Monday, 2 May 2022 18:45 (two years ago) link
You are so close, my dude. So very very close.
― emil.y, Monday, 2 May 2022 18:52 (two years ago) link
yeah you're about to make the exact same error I made that resulted in [redacted] minutes of pointless brain scraping
― rob, Monday, 2 May 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
wtf I have never heard of Babylonia
Redactle in 58 and a fair amount of confusion
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Monday, 2 May 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#26) in 50 guesses with an accuracy of 70.00% - my best result so far, bar that Meryl-Streep-in-3 fluke.
― middot • is • my • middle • name (breastcrawl), Monday, 2 May 2022 18:57 (two years ago) link
115 guesses, 69% accuracy, getting the final answer was a fluke
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 2 May 2022 19:00 (two years ago) link
(█, █, █, █, █, ██, ██, ██, ██, and ██)
this has to be something, but god knows what
today's is another subject area i know very little about
― koogs, Monday, 2 May 2022 19:25 (two years ago) link
guessing words based on second hand references like pixies lyrics and The Warriors
― koogs, Monday, 2 May 2022 19:33 (two years ago) link
My 860 guesses feels this acutely (I had to look up hints to get to the right answer despite getting Babylon and Babylonian at 115 and 116).
― Human-shaped trash bag (Leee), Monday, 2 May 2022 19:33 (two years ago) link
koogs, at one point I was inputting everything I could remember from playing Civilization VI
lol Leee that is v close to mine too: 680 guesses, those two words at 135 and 136, fairly demoralizing though I got yesterday's in 24
― rob, Monday, 2 May 2022 19:40 (two years ago) link
26 ????????? 130 54.62%
the thing that was obviously something was nothing
― koogs, Monday, 2 May 2022 20:05 (two years ago) link