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Redactle, the daily ████████-█████ ████████ puzzle
- Thread starter DFalcon
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For the most part neither do I. (Hence my use of scare quotes.)
Indeed. I wasted a bunch of guesses today thinking it had something to do with forms of government.
- You solved it in 140 guesses
- Your accuracy was 40.00%
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
WHOOF.
302. Had no clue what was going on at all until I guessed library (9) at 265 and then I finally had a direction. Other high-hit guesses were history (10), public (11), government (15) but they just couldn't narrow it down enough for me.
As much as this one was difficult I actually really liked it as a part of the game! It was probably the trickiest one yet to nail down what it's even about and was challenging but interesting.
302. Had no clue what was going on at all until I guessed library (9) at 265 and then I finally had a direction. Other high-hit guesses were history (10), public (11), government (15) but they just couldn't narrow it down enough for me.
As much as this one was difficult I actually really liked it as a part of the game! It was probably the trickiest one yet to nail down what it's even about and was challenging but interesting.
I missed yesterday (#81) because I was doing it at night and fell asleep, then poked at it early in the morning. I felt like I was getting close but ran out of time to get back to it and sit down to finish it before this morning's reset. What was the answer?
Got today's in 93 and felt like I should've gotten it a little earlier, but at least I think I was in the right general ballpark from the start.
Got today's in 93 and felt like I should've gotten it a little earlier, but at least I think I was in the right general ballpark from the start.
Yesterday's answer was archive.
god dammit
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
48, knew it was some sort of military/siege/weapony thing and managed to uncover "used against the wall". That and the second word being only three letters made it obvious to me.
66 today, but part of that was that my early guesses were off the mark entirely, and then I filled up with support words. Once I got Earth I honed in on planets and astronomical, but it took a few more rounds before I thought on a smaller scale.
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
91, went in a few weird directions, I got oddly stuck on thinking it was a unit of measurement for no good reason. Wasn't until I guessed planet (3) at 72 that I got on the right track.. Another puzzle I liked despite my poor performance.
I am ashamed it took me until my 119th guess to get to the first word of the title (which led me to solving it in 122). I did a lot of generic guessing and got "power" at 41, then was going around electricity until "computer" at 64, and then over 50 more guesses for stuff involving circuit boards and their components, hardware/software, development... Feels like I really should've had this one sooner. Bah!
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
193, SHAME.
I had essentially no useful hits until I guessed system (20) at 62, but that didn't really guide me. The partially uncovered phrase that I stared at for a long time was "System [redacted] the Picture" and just had absolutely no idea where to go with that. Didn't occur to me that it was two different things.
Then I got media (23) at 87 and the few hits of things like copyright, law, film, image, design, home, software, music, industry just made me more confused. All the pieces were there, I just couldn't unite them until the end. Oh well.
I had essentially no useful hits until I guessed system (20) at 62, but that didn't really guide me. The partially uncovered phrase that I stared at for a long time was "System [redacted] the Picture" and just had absolutely no idea where to go with that. Didn't occur to me that it was two different things.
Then I got media (23) at 87 and the few hits of things like copyright, law, film, image, design, home, software, music, industry just made me more confused. All the pieces were there, I just couldn't unite them until the end. Oh well.
43, but partial cheat, got the back half of the title, but didn't want to throw guesses for something i didn't know immediately. It wasn't as obscure as i was imagining, but yea, not something i think about.
but yea, was able to get that it was mathematic pretty quickly, and threw out theorem with guess 22, so didn't take much from that.
but yea, was able to get that it was mathematic pretty quickly, and threw out theorem with guess 22, so didn't take much from that.
162. I dinked around thinking it was some sort of monument or historical thing for a while, filled sentences in, and then got "surface" which led me from some sentence to "mathematics," "mathematical," and "theorem" right away, and I spent the next hundred guesses filling in everything I could think of related to math. I knew I probably wouldn't have gotten this one on my own but I didn't do any research until I really hit a wall, thinking I could just tease out a little more and get there myself. Ironically, I had blown right past part of the answer much earlier: on guesses 67-69 I guessed trigonometry, calculus, and geometry and yet somehow didn't think of algebra. Once I did go do research, I found what I figured was probably the answer, but first I guessed algebra to fill in what I should've remembered early, found it in the title, and then matched the last word. I miiiight have stumbled onto fundamental at some point, but oh well.
I actually did, not when I went to do the puzzle but later when I reopened it to check something. Said its certificate expired or something.
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
Yeah, got the security error too. Got it at 74. Term (2) is a word I'm starting to use more often in early guesses since it applies to a few different fields. It wasn't until I guessed sphere (6) that I started really going in the right direction. Once I found that derive had no hits I knew it had to be a lower math thing and guessed algebra and got it from there.
Edit: my spouse is guessing this and both number and numbers have the exact same number of hits (30) which I find highly amusing for some reason.
Edit: my spouse is guessing this and both number and numbers have the exact same number of hits (30) which I find highly amusing for some reason.
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116 with only 31.9% accuracy. Those short articles really make it hard to fill in common words. With so many zeroes on my common guesses, I had absolutely no clue what it could be until I happened to hit "rule" (5) at guess 79 which got me on the right track. I got to answer word 2 at 85 and then identified the first word immediately for 86, but still spent 30 more guesses narrowing down the last one. When I finally got it I felt like I really should have guessed that earlier, but hey, that's how it goes sometimes!