33 today, species lead to Darwin lead to Beagle in quick succession once I got species
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 20:53 (two years ago) link
This has become part of my post-work routine now, when really I should be out getting some exercise or something.
I started with #13 (prophesy vs prophecy argh), so I've solved 22 now, with an average of 41.3 guesses. Never better than Meryl, never worse than College of Cardinals.
50 today - also taken down the wrong path. I forget that dogs can be popular too.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 21:23 (two years ago) link
it's always annoying when Redactle accepts a misspelled word, not that that accounted for more than one of my 176 tries today :(
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 23:16 (two years ago) link
#34 in 56, pretty happy with that.
― Alba, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 08:22 (two years ago) link
#34 in 73, not entirely happy. I mean I remember the moment early on when I looked at my dog sitting beside me and thought 'I will type dog' then thought 'no, don't do that, wasted blind guess, just try animals instead'. Thought I was looking for something geographical/territorial till then and only really locked on when I properly noticed what looked like 'origin of the species' down in the popcult list. That still just made me think about dogs and not the name of the ship…
― woof, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 09:27 (two years ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#34) in 216 guesses with an accuracy of 56.48%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/
My first Redactle, darn close to my average Semantle ugh. Fun though.
― weatheringdaleson, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 11:35 (two years ago) link
#35 in 2.
― woof, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 16:11 (two years ago) link
wtf
― Ste, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 16:37 (two years ago) link
Got it in 28, with only three zero guesses.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 16:40 (two years ago) link
#35You solved it in 76 guessesYour accuracy was 81.58%Globally, 1732 players have solved today's Redactle so far
― koogs, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 16:42 (two years ago) link
i think Cicadas was a bit too american-leaning also
― koogs, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 16:43 (two years ago) link
Finished punching the air, jumping on tables, spraying room with tesco prosecco
Basically saw ****-***** in the first sentence and thought it looked a lot like it could be 'city-state'. Confirmed with 'state', then it was just figuring out a 9-letter city state that would get a really, really, really long article.
― woof, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 16:47 (two years ago) link
xpI dunno - I think it's just UK/Ireland that has no truck with cicadas - they are, as I learned from the article, just about everywhere fucking else.
(Apologies to the New Forest Cicada, our one native species, again, as I learned from the article)
― woof, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 17:04 (two years ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#35) in 36 guesses with an accuracy of 83.33%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 17:24 (two years ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#35) in 17 guesses with an accuracy of 76.47%. No triple digits for me today!
― Star Trek: Strange New Wordles (Leee), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 17:35 (two years ago) link
#35You solved it in 51 guessesYour accuracy was 84.31%
-- I am better at this than Semantle
― sarahell, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 18:00 (two years ago) link
Amazing woof! I saw city-state but only after guesting world, countries, asia, country, and crucially island. In total 11 guesses, 100% accuracy.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 18:19 (two years ago) link
Good work, woof! I got there in 5.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 18:55 (two years ago) link
crap, sorry for spoilers in my post. don't scroll up if you haven't got it yet!
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 19:02 (two years ago) link
10 here. My kind of Redactle.
― Alba, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 19:49 (two years ago) link
happy with 8, knew someone here would beat it
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:00 (two years ago) link
I don't do the letter-counting thing but I'm not sure why I wasted a guess on Luxembourg which isn't even a city-state
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:10 (two years ago) link
I thought it was city-state but didn't guess that right away because I've been burned every single time that's what I thought it was. Played myself.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:12 (two years ago) link
looks quite intimidating does this, will have to give it a try.
― calzino, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:19 (two years ago) link
you only have to get the title. but that can still take you 100s of guesses
― koogs, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:21 (two years ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/Redactle/comments/ukobfu/a_very_hacky_method_to_play_past_random_and/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:27 (two years ago) link
so googling chains of revealed words to find the source isn't cheating - it doesn't seem so bad now!
― calzino, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:28 (two years ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/Redactle/comments/unfexf/a_still_hacky_way_to_play_custom_redactles/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:30 (two years ago) link
wow, got this one in 6. did a random guess for “city” at 4 and after “city-state” announced itself hit the jackpot right away.
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 21:32 (two years ago) link
blimey i'm shit at this, into 100+ guesses and no idea still
― Ste, Thursday, 12 May 2022 11:56 (two years ago) link
got it in 172
― Ste, Thursday, 12 May 2022 12:23 (two years ago) link
A question to the letter counters: do you see the individual boxes, or do you highlight them one at a time and count them that way? If the former, what browser do you use?
― Santa Barbarous (Leee), Thursday, 12 May 2022 16:14 (two years ago) link
lol, got it in 141 after going so many wrong ways.
re counting i only do it rarely but for the most part it's by eye (since it's all in a monospace font. i usually don't count if it's over 5 or so)
anyway today: i got stuck early with a few hits on "sound" which is not helpful!! but eventually worked my way to gas and liquid and solid... seemed like one in the other... struggled a little longer, got one hit for beer near the beginning, and the next one was the answer
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 May 2022 16:52 (two years ago) link
im gonna spoiler tag this too just in case but possible bug i found? (if you're still trying to do today's, it shouldn't affect you)i got zero hits for hz, even though there is a Hz in there? huh?
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 May 2022 16:55 (two years ago) link
You solved it in 18 guessesYour accuracy was 66.67%Globally, 910 players have solved today's Redactle so far
was determined to get it under 20 even if it meant going away and thinking about it.
― koogs, Thursday, 12 May 2022 17:01 (two years ago) link
i have to drag mouse to count letters on the mac. and, yeah, generally you can just eyeball it if it's 6 or under.
― koogs, Thursday, 12 May 2022 17:03 (two years ago) link
#36 in 7. Happy… but I could have shaved a couple.
I drag across and count on mac chrome, or copy and paste then delete each letter-blank counting "one, two, three, four" as I go if I want to be certain. I only do it for title and key words that I've got a hypothesis for.
― woof, Thursday, 12 May 2022 18:13 (two years ago) link
#36 600 (sic) / 41%
Oof! Got sponge at 211 but didn't think to try bath until 596, which led me to soap, which got me close to the final answer.
― Santa Barbarous (Leee), Thursday, 12 May 2022 18:30 (two years ago) link
161 guesses / 37.27%
Went in all kinds of completely wrong directions on this one
― silverfish, Thursday, 12 May 2022 18:32 (two years ago) link
7! How? 89 for me, stuck too long on the science section, especially when x-rays showed up.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Thursday, 12 May 2022 18:33 (two years ago) link
7 was pretty lucky tbh subscripts made me try a few chemistry words, but 'atomic' and 'chemical' and a couple of others were a bit blank - states seemed a good direction, and picked gas first. You can see liquid and solid in the first sentence if you've got that & then I just made myself stop guessing and think.
― woof, Thursday, 12 May 2022 19:06 (two years ago) link
#36 in 40. Not bad - was slightly thrown by what looked like a a section heading consisting of a single character, which turned out to be a comma and not a hearing at all
― Alba, Thursday, 12 May 2022 19:47 (two years ago) link
275, 36%
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 12 May 2022 20:50 (two years ago) link
Handed my iPad over to Kevin after 59, and he got it in just two more. That’s my boy.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 12 May 2022 21:49 (two years ago) link
23 today, vague sciencey words until I hit a run of liquid->gas->bubble->foam
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Thursday, 12 May 2022 22:41 (two years ago) link
i had gas very early but then went down a pressure / density cul de sac
― koogs, Friday, 13 May 2022 00:38 (two years ago) link
Koogs, I'd be especially impressed if you filled in a few of the forumulae by typing lower-case rho ;) I wasted a few attempts there because I assumed they were H2, O2, etc.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 13 May 2022 07:54 (two years ago) link
I got stuck with pressure too, and fill in those subscripts was a stupid idea which led me into x-rays and particle physics
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Friday, 13 May 2022 08:01 (two years ago) link
I made the same assumption, Michael - and looking again, glad I didn't try to check it.
― woof, Friday, 13 May 2022 08:06 (two years ago) link
will attempt this one at lunch, you guys are putting pressure on me to try harder and looking forward to the day i get a <100 guess win
― Ste, Friday, 13 May 2022 09:27 (two years ago) link
I solved Redactle #788 in 10 guesses with an accuracy of 80.0% and a time of 00:08:13. got my Dutch hopes up for a sec, but nope
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Sunday, 2 June 2024 19:37 (one week ago) link
I solved Redactle #787 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:03:45. I solved Redactle #788 in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:13:49.should've been one minute not thirteen!
― ledge, Sunday, 2 June 2024 20:39 (one week ago) link
I solved Redactle #789 in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:06:15.lucky first guess of 'food'
― ledge, Monday, 3 June 2024 18:48 (one week ago) link
I solved Redactle #789 in 25 guesses with an accuracy of 68.0% and a time of 00:07:38. I started with ‘water’
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Monday, 3 June 2024 20:11 (one week ago) link
I solved Redactle #790 in 141 guesses with an accuracy of 75.2% and a time of 00:24:19. was playing this very distractedly, while listening to a podcast where the subject at hand was actually mentioned, so have at it. your target is 5 guesses or less!
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 16:46 (one week ago) link
I solved Redactle #790 in 13 guesses with an accuracy of 53.8% and a time of 00:08:14.all the less likely three letter animals came into my head first.
― ledge, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 11:10 (one week ago) link
I solved Redactle #791 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:00:18.
― ledge, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 16:18 (one week ago) link
I solved Redactle #791 in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:01:04. yes, I will admit, one too many
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 20:23 (one week ago) link
I solved Redactle #793 in 172 guesses with an accuracy of 51.2% and a time of 00:27:56. didn’t have a clue until guess 169, when I tried ‘play’. by then I had amassed enough secondary information to get it in 3
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Friday, 7 June 2024 19:06 (one week ago) link
I solved Redactle #793 in 14 guesses with an accuracy of 42.9% and a time of 00:13:53.'two' gave me two-______ - handed? seater? ah, player.
― ledge, Friday, 7 June 2024 19:09 (one week ago) link
I solved Redactle #794 in 44 guesses with an accuracy of 72.7% and a time of 00:14:44.
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Saturday, 8 June 2024 23:35 (six days ago) link
I solved Redactle #794 in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:02:42.'_____ per over' say no more
― ledge, Sunday, 9 June 2024 06:25 (five days ago) link
I solved Redactle #795 in 33 guesses with an accuracy of 75.8% and a time of 00:16:07. lol had initially discarded the right solution for the second word, somehow thinking it was 8 letters
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Sunday, 9 June 2024 16:51 (five days ago) link
I solved Redactle #795 in 10 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:08:42.almost forgot the 'if it's _______ of something it must be history' trick.
― ledge, Sunday, 9 June 2024 17:49 (five days ago) link
I solved Redactle #796 in 208 guesses with an accuracy of 76.4% and a time of 00:58:18. ridiculous! assumed for some reason this was about some 19th-century work (18th had no hits, so I didn’t look, or think, back further). at several points it did cross my mind that I could throw a Shakespeare in the mix, because why not, but I didn’t really see the use…
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Monday, 10 June 2024 21:22 (four days ago) link
I solved Redactle #796 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:01:57.idk what caused the penny to drop.
― ledge, Monday, 10 June 2024 21:49 (four days ago) link
I solved Redactle #797 in 8 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:08:45. lucky to pick a related word as my 4th guess
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 18:47 (three days ago) link
I solved Redactle #797 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:04:05. no clue till I scrolled to the bottom and saw phrases including (roll) out the (red) (carpet)
― ledge, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 19:51 (three days ago) link
I solved Redactle #798 in 18 guesses with an accuracy of 94.4% and a time of 00:13:55. another one with room for improvement
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 16:47 (two days ago) link
I solved Redactle #798 in 48 guesses with an accuracy of 72.9% and a time of 00:55:32.declined, when I thought it was a film studio or company of some kind, to guess 'disney'.
― ledge, Thursday, 13 June 2024 13:08 (yesterday) link
also i was throwing two letter names at it, tried 'al' which gave me ___-al-_____. aha! i thought. batman! i have till now never ever ever heard of ub iwerks
― ledge, Thursday, 13 June 2024 13:12 (yesterday) link
I solved Redactle #799 in 11 guesses with an accuracy of 81.8% and a time of 00:15:15.book of the what, dead? well, yeah.
― ledge, Thursday, 13 June 2024 19:14 (yesterday) link
I solved Redactle #799 in 139 guesses with an accuracy of 58.3% and a time of 00:25:33. Swer Buik! (first instalment of an ongoing series of anagrams in honour of Ub Iwerks
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:00 (yesterday) link