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
300, the Frank miller thing was another, failed source of guesses
― koogs, Monday, 2 May 2022 20:08 (two years ago) link
when i should've been guessing things from bob marley all along
― koogs, Monday, 2 May 2022 20:09 (two years ago) link
I gave up after 100, I had Mesopotamia fairly early on and knew that was probably as close as I was going to get. i cheated to get akkadian which was no help, can't imagine I would have got it if I'd carried on plugging away.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Monday, 2 May 2022 20:29 (two years ago) link
yesterday i overlooked africa until late having done 4 other continents and got nowhere. maybe if I'd literally slept on it i may've got lagos, but i doubt it
the other thing that would've helped today is conan the barbarian. i noticed Cimmeria was mentioned
― koogs, Monday, 2 May 2022 21:53 (two years ago) link
Redactle #26 in 170 guesses, accuracy 77.65%. another Babylon ……………… Babylonia journey here. Stuff upthread too spoilery, glad I didn’t look at this thread
― Alba, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 05:27 (two years ago) link
#24 in 197 haha just when I was starting think 'I'm pretty good at this' - got a kind of medieval religious orders thing and just got super stuck digging around guilds and templars and trying to remember what else they did - eventually hostel and hotel got me there
#25 in 27 lucky. fast to African city, and got West, then realised I didn't have much of a grasp of African geography (eg trying out the North African countries because well they're sort of west as well). But eventually hit Nigeria then straight to the answer - absolutely would not have been able to get it if it was Abuja
#26 in 54 Hit the same dead end as everyone else but then looking back over the number of hits for Babylon/Babylonian vs any other plausible local civ made me pause and think hard
― woof, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 10:11 (two years ago) link
Redactle #27 in 6 guesses with 62.50% accuracy. That's more like it.
― Alba, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 16:13 (two years ago) link
Ha, sorry, 16 guesses not 6. Overexcited.
#27You solved it in 39 guessesYour accuracy was 51.28%Globally, 180 players have solved today's Redactle so far
― koogs, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 16:17 (two years ago) link
Bit hot on the heels of screw, this one
― Alba, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 16:19 (two years ago) link
82 guesses for today's redactle. Somehow it was "hair" at guess 80 that got me to the answer
― silverfish, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 16:33 (two years ago) link
#27 in 26 hair basically got it for me too after mucking about with materials, belt, shoes.
― woof, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 16:45 (two years ago) link
#27: 376 / 38%
You'd think that after screw I'd have learned my lesson but not really!
― Human-shaped trash bag (Leee), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 17:47 (two years ago) link
I'm not sure i even know 376 words
― koogs, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 17:55 (two years ago) link
(you have more patience than me)
not my day...222 and I was pretty surprised when I got it, I was just flinging words around at that point
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 19:30 (two years ago) link
Got it in 43 somehow, my guesses were going nowhere, was particularly perplexed by "can be made to float on water". In the end I just took a stab at a more or less random four letter word!
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 20:47 (two years ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#27) in 137 guesses with an accuracy of 57.66%. Was using the boa constrictor method again, just trying to fill in as many circumstantial words as possible because this wasn’t my kind of topic and then the word just jumped at me, (no more) skip- skip- skip- skipping!
― middot • is • my • middle • name (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 21:04 (two years ago) link
#28 - basically gave in at 83 chemical by guess 2, sugar by 66, saccharide/ine at 68/9, then rapidly exhausted glucose, sucrose, etc. Eventually googled glucose and the infobox effectively gave me the answer. Maybe gettable if I'd paid a bit more attention to the etymology - had 'greek', & 'sugar' - & lettercount
― woof, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 16:45 (two years ago) link
#28 77 / 48%
I wonder if that'll hold up against the ILX Redactle savants!
A lot less beating around the bush for me: once I noticed the subscripts, I guessed chemical at 24, which got me to carbon (@28) and then sugar (@29). Polysaccharide @45 had no hits, and so I didn't think of polysaccharides till 64, and from there it didn't take me too much longer to figure out, "Hey, maybe try mono."
― Human-shaped trash bag (Leee), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 17:25 (two years ago) link
i turned on the 'pluralise' flag, thinking it'd help (cheat a bit). but it counts both anyway, even when it guesses rubbish like turned and turneds
good early start today but am now struggling
― koogs, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 17:37 (two years ago) link
28 ?????????????? 162 46.30%
it's not giving me a global placing today
― koogs, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 18:07 (two years ago) link
probably because i don't deserve one.
lots of single letters got me c and carbon early on and the chemical formula not long after. but went down the hydrocarbons route.
― koogs, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 18:10 (two years ago) link
Gave up on turn 244 after throwing words at it stopped being fun. Now I see the answer it was just conceivable I might have got it if I'd persevered as I was as far as:███████████████ (from Greek █████: ██████, ███████: █████), ████ ██████ simple ██████, are the simplest form of █████ and the most █████ █████ (████████) of █████████████. The ███████ ███████ is , or [█n(H2O)n] or ███2██n ██████ not all molecules ███████ ████ ███████ (e.g. ██████ ████) are █████████████. They are ███████ █████████, water-soluble, and ███████████ solids. ████████ to █████ ████ (██████), ████ ████ ███████████████ ████ a █████ █████.If I'd have guessed sugar maybe that would have unlocked it but, nah, I probably wouldn't have
― Alba, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 18:12 (two years ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#28) in 70 guesses with an accuracy of 38.57%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/
I cheated on this one, I had "sugar" and "molecule" and "carbohydrate" so I basically knew what kind of thing I was looking for, but (after a couple of basic guesses) I also knew that I was unlikely to find the exact word. Did a quick google search based on "nH2nOn" which I'd also uncovered and found the answer.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 18:48 (two years ago) link
also gave up and googled CxH2xOx after guessing every letter in the alphabet lol. this isn't a word that i have swimming around in my brain. need another meryl streep for my confidence
― ✖, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 19:06 (two years ago) link
#29: 174 / 37.93%
― Human-shaped trash bag (Leee), Thursday, 5 May 2022 16:25 (two years ago) link
#28 in 101 guesses with accuracy of just 45%
― Alba, Thursday, 5 May 2022 17:01 (two years ago) link
#29, rather
Once I’d established from “act” and “species” that it was something animals did, I was far too attached to thinking it was something about reproduction.
― Alba, Thursday, 5 May 2022 17:11 (two years ago) link
Alba: It kind of does, actually! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism#Sexual_cannibalism
― Human-shaped trash bag (Leee), Thursday, 5 May 2022 17:26 (two years ago) link
#29 in 76, 28.95% - had almost nothing till 'animal' at 53, 'species' at 54, and slowly got there when I realised sexual/mating etc wasn't filling it out properly - needed something tangential to that. Hmmm. Just realising that I thought I'd tried 'food' early, but I hadn't - that would have helped.
― woof, Thursday, 5 May 2022 17:35 (two years ago) link
am finding this really tough. about 200 down and still nothing
― koogs, Thursday, 5 May 2022 18:10 (two years ago) link
Take a break, maybe have some friends over for a quick bite, then come back to it.
― Human-shaped trash bag (Leee), Thursday, 5 May 2022 20:38 (two years ago) link
quality article today, appreciated the "both sides" approach to the topic
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Thursday, 5 May 2022 21:40 (two years ago) link
29 ??????????? 305 27.21%
none of my usual starts got me anything numbers, letters, continents, colours, countries. the spider sex thing was the first foothold and that was a bit of a red herring
― koogs, Thursday, 5 May 2022 22:55 (two years ago) link
seems, now I've read all the hidden text, i wasn't the only one, just the slowest
― koogs, Thursday, 5 May 2022 22:57 (two years ago) link
94 guesses / 36.17%
This was a fun one
I had "animal" and "food" and after trying "carnivore", "herbivore" and "omnivore" which all had 0 results, I just went with the obvious alternative
― silverfish, Thursday, 5 May 2022 23:09 (two years ago) link