______ the ____________: Redactle

i got the 2nd word at 6, am sleeping on the first

Got the second word pretty early, but the first not until 65.

40ish. i moved onto phone after getting the second word at guess 6 so i can't be exact

#67 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_particle

look at all those diagrams, no wonder it was messed up

I solved today's Redactle (#68) in 129 guesses with an accuracy of 37.98%.

Yesterday was a bit of a slog, they'll be taking back my barely-earned physics 2:2.

But today was a hole-in-one, so I can keep my Drama CSE.

#68
You solved it in 23 guesses
Your accuracy was 30.43%
Globally, 5198 players have solved today's Redactle so far

absolutely nothing for the first 9 guesses, only 6 within the first 18.

hole in one but it took a while. clipping was a bit of a head scratcher.

yes, i was surprised at that. also i was looking at the things that were obviously titles, only they were australian things i've not seen and so no help. all the examples seemed a bit odd

Hole in one here too – didn't spend very long looking at it, it just seemed to spring up from my subconscious.

28 (57.14%) was thinking of music and movies first, but that didn’t work out, and then, doing my regular be-been-being-are-was filler thing, Are (blank) Being (blank)? displayed itself. well, yeah

26, slow day I did scan the redacted titles but in fairness I've barely heard of any of the non-UK ones

#68 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitcom

which was bobbins. also this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_sitcom

i mean what are those things? Whack-O! Me Mammy, Clochemerle, Miss Jones and Son, If You See God, Tell Him, The Green Green Grass, who is writing this?

#69
You solved it in 1 guesses
Your accuracy was 100.00%

it's not giving me world stats 8(

1 here too.

Current global stats - median: 38, average: 61.

worst redactle ever

1 also

26 / 61.54%. was hoping it would be “pi”, but no dice, although “3”, “14”, and “π” all had results.

76. That one made me CROSS. Well done, competent players.

Sigh:

#69 397 / 53.90%

I got Asia (and then China/Japan) pretty quickly, but I got really stuck on jewelry when I got all of 1 hit for jade, although that did get me stone. I think I needed program @388 to point me towards computers, at which point I finally realized it was a game.

12. a bit disappointing given I figured out without guessing that it was a two letter word invented in China a few thousand years ago.

also got it in 1

2 - I needed that first guess ("computer") though to narrow things down, it didn't seem obvious to me at first

#69 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)

Got #70 in 4 - shame it had the same letter count as public limited company.

Convinced that this was something to do with long-chain polymers, or some class of protein that can be activated - turned on and off? and then I spent ages trying to make binary or MOSFETs work somehow... all without making a move. I should have just made a list of common three-letter abbreviations. 8, anyway.

#70 265 61.51%

Michael, I also got stuck on chips (I wasn't about to remember MOSFETs though), and even though I got light at 46, I kept thinking it had to do with weight, not photons. And even when I followed the photon trail, I went with fiber optics, then optical devices (even though lasers didn't show up). I think "cell" (as I was filling out variations of cellular) finally pointed me in the right direction with Light REDACTED Cell REDACTED.

lol, 11. my initial thought when i saw it was for some reason maybe a shape or something, like for dice? so i tried the word "game" pretty early but didn't really check the results, as it only had two hits. but then a few guesses later i went back and saw capital-g Game followed by XXX, tried Boy, and figured it out from there

29 I guess I could have thought harder

800 guesses in (a personal record, folx!) and the good news is I’m closing in ever further - I basically have everything, except for the answer, once again proving my absolute ignorance when it comes to technical+technological stuff.

I'm still on 0 guesses. nothing is jumping out at me.

complete opposite of yesterday which i saw immediately the way you sometimes do with anagrams. slightly puzzled by the "on" and "off" but anyway, was ok, but merely ok, when i got started.

You solved it in 19 guesses
Your accuracy was 73.68%
You have solved 1 consecutive Redactles
Globally, 11919 players have solved today's Redactle so far
Global Median: 94.00 Guesses; 57.89% Accuracy
Global Average: 120.88 Guesses; 58.84% Accuracy

(oh meant to delete the 1 consecutive thing - it doesn't keep track across devices)

Speed Redactle for me today (which should be a thing) as I've been busy and just started on it with 15 minutes to go (though I did glance at it yesterday). Did it in 31 guesses with 51% accuracy. Electric was my first guess and light my third, so a good start

#70 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid-crystal_display

34, 91%

65. am more used to seeing it spelled with an S at the end so that took a little figuring out

#71
You solved it in 1 guesses
Your accuracy was 100.00%
Globally, 5072 players have solved today's Redactle so far
Global Median: 52.00 Guesses; 72.92% Accuracy
Global Average: 70.01 Guesses; 72.39% Accuracy

so, i guessed "it is located on the coast of the ???? of ????, (part) of the Mediterranean Sea, near the (mouth)" only i had east/west and coast. and given the only thing i know about Marseille is the count of monte-cristo i looked the that in the Popular Culture section and found it. Only that was actually "The Abbey of Saint-Victor" in the "Central Marseille" section. so absolute dumb luck.

Oh that is good going, koogs!

21 here. All those hyphens made me think of Arabic place names. I suppose I have to get better at identifying all the possible administrative sub-divisions... prefecture, my arse.

21, I figured out it was a city after 6 but like Mike was convinced it was somewhere closer to Africa or the Middle East. Wasted guesses on north, south, east and west trying to locate it in the mediterranean. I was almost led astray by the hits for football, after I guessed united and saw what looked like (and was) Manchester United.

#71 214 / 59.81%

No such thing as a wasted guess when you're a sightseer with a guess count as high as mine (typos notwithstanding).

#71 31 / 80.95%

Well done, koogs!

Got French after 6 so probably should have nailed it sooner.

I was put off it being a city by it not having city in the first paragraph. Must learn to open my mind a bit on formats of these things. Prefecture my arse, indeed.

having great fun *not* trying to solve this one. I mean, the answer became clear soon enough although I was stuck on Toulouse for a little while, but I decided not to enter it and try filling out as much of the text as I possibly could. 1317 guesses so far, and I’m still finding new things. will I get everything? no, I have other things to do (like a job lol), and I obviously wouldn’t know everything anyway. the funnest part was trying to identify the two sets of twin cities at the end. enough clues to make it doable. got ‘em all in the end, apart from the city in Togo (its capital probably), which starts with an L and probably has four letters, but my brain isn’t giving me any Togo cities at all. but it was a fun little game within a game.

Hah! If that's not exploration I don't know what is!

i got it in 5, but if i had guts i coulda made it 1 or 2 - i saw the xxxxx-xx-xxxxxxx construction and thought "that middle part could be 'du'" -- like a french name -- so i guessed du, then quebec, then france, then city to confirm it was in fact a city in france. then my first guess was the answer

#71 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marseille (in one, bitches!)

82 today, fish were not biting

Redactle #71 in 18 guesses, 27.78% accuracy. Let there be light guesses

Sorry, Redactle #72, I mean