Redactle, the daily ████████-█████ ████████ puzzle

[Eishtmo]

31 at 48.39%. Most of my standards guesses were useless. Only when I hit that first word of the title did I start on the path to solving it.

 

[Yimothy]

26 for me, first word of the title is one of my standard “I have no idea” guesses, used it at 22, couple missteps from there and I had it.

 

[Violentvixen]

State is turning out to be a very helpful word in my pool of starting guesses.

Same, I've noticed that one and am trying to guess it sooner too.

52, I got system (6) early as that's a word I'm trying to use more, and ended up getting the first two words in the title by guess 33 but was absolutely baffled as to what the third would be since the guess I spoiled above is all I could think of. I started throwing random things out and finally guessed states (12) since I thought that might show up and help somehow, but the way that was used in the article made me guess state and got it. Weird one.

 

[Olli]

50. I got tool quite early on, but it took me a lot of guesses to narrow it down to the correct subcategory still.

 

[lincolnic]

50. I got tool quite early on, but it took me a lot of guesses to narrow it down to the correct subcategory still.

49 here! It took me 36 guesses to get to the word you spoilered, and I feel like I should've been able to get the answer immediately from there if I'd just thought about it for a minute. Ah well.

 

[Yimothy]

54, but I feel like it should have been 7 if my brain had been working. I had tool at 4, followed by manual and powered. From there I was like, what’s a tool with a long name that can be used by hand or power? The correct answer is the obvious one, but it wouldn’t come to me.

 

[Violentvixen]

I got tool at 15 but got sidetracked by the fact that a subsection was handle, for some reason that made me think it had to be a power tool. Got it at 40 though right after guessing tip (21) which made everything fall into place.

 

[lincolnic]

Got my first one-shot today! (Technically two-shot since it's a two-word puzzle, but you know what I mean.) I feel very good about it while my girlfriend is being mock indignant since it took her 170-something guesses.

I guessed "chemistry" first since I'd seen at least one instance of subscript in the article (which turned out to be Boltzmann's constant instead of the chemical compound I was expecting), and once I had that I just had to figure out what the only ten-letter branch of chemistry was.

 

[Violentvixen]

I'm so glad I got to guess chromatography (8) since that's most of what I do at work. I knew what this one was but wanted to have fun just guessing stuff.

 

[Yimothy]

88 for me. I got chemistry quite early on and had figured out it was using chemistry to measure stuff not long after, but could not for the life of me think of the word for that. Until I did.

 

[Violentvixen]

July 4th- Got it in 46. I uncovered home (1) at guess 11 and spent a bit too long thinking it was something architecture-related rather than furniture. The guess that finally got me there was table (12).

 

[Torzelbaum]

I was guessing all over the place and did just terrible on today's.

373 guesses
accuracy 22.25%

 

[Eishtmo]

I flexed the power of google. Got a really long line of text and it popped up immediately. Not so much because I wasn't getting anywhere, I was, but mostly because I realized by that point I was at 100% accuracy after 26 guesses and wanted to keep it.

 

[lincolnic]

Oh my god I did so badly on today's and felt so stupid after my perfect shot yesterday. 165 guesses, even after getting table at 88 and spending the next 80 guesses going "but what else is table-style???" Ugh.

 

[Yimothy]

196 for me, just could not get a toe-hold on this one. Mystified right until I got it. I had bits about movable type (suggesting writing), about chairs, about having attached storage, but I couldn’t put it together.

Interesting article to read, though, or more than I would have thought, particularly ”Desk-style furniture appears not to have been used in classical antiquity or in other ancient centers of literate civilization in the Middle East or Far East.” That is wild to me. How did they do it?.

 

[pudik]

59

got work, then worked from that to get "work surface". pretty straightforward from that

 

[Violentvixen]

Interesting article to read, though, or more than I would have thought, particularly ”Desk-style furniture appears not to have been used in classical antiquity or in other ancient centers of literate civilization in the Middle East or Far East.” That is wild to me. How did they do it?.

If I remember correctly (spoiling since there's still about an hour left in this one) easel/drafting tables were something you'd see occasionally, but scribes mainly came in with a stool and a very small portable surface, or would just stand and write dictation. This is brought to you by my high school/college classes though so I very likely could be misremembering or historians have learned more since then.

 

[Violentvixen]

July 5th- 65, I got super lucky on this one as I just finished Werner Herzog's book The Twilight World, which is about Hiroo Onoda, and Ferdinand Marcos was President when Onoda surrendered. I figured out it was a previous president of the Philippines and around the time of World War II. but if I hadn't just read that book I doubt I could have recalled the first name . Might have been able to guess the second part.

 

[lincolnic]

55 today. I'd like to credit David Byrne's concept album about Imelda Marcos Here Lies Love for putting Ferdinand Marcos somewhere in the back of my brain.

 

[Paul le Fou]

71 today, with a nice 80.28% accuracy (and filling out a lot of grammar words I ultimately didn't need, but oh well). Once I revealed and understood that he was a hero and president of the Philippines, I went to Google since I wouldn't have gotten there myself.

 

[Eishtmo]

I had a high accuracy, 88.19%, but none of it helped for 142 guesses.

 

[Yimothy]

32 for me, I figured a politician straight away, took a little while to figure out where (misspelling “Philippines” didn’t help), I could only name three presidents of the Philippines but luckily the answer was one of them.

 

[Violentvixen]

July 6th- Had to cheat and even after looking it up am not confident I've heard of Hadley before. At 190 I had a ton uncovered, knew it was the name of a wind system across the Earth and honestly could draw a diagram of it for you but had no clue what the actual name was and realized more guesses weren't going to help, oh well!

 

[Torzelbaum]

I looked it up after exhausting my knowledge at 69 guesses.

 

[lincolnic]

Also had to cheat this one at 153, never heard of it.

Literally right after I'd finished, my girlfriend walked past my office and said "fuck today's Redactle".

 

[Paul le Fou]

Yeah, I knew deep down that I wouldn't get it from the very start because of the "Named after blank" right in the first line, but I still gave it the old college try with all the weather, atmosphere, and global positioning-related words I knew before looking it up around 150ish.

 

[Yimothy]

Same here, got it at 197 after reading part of the Wikipedia article on trade winds. Confident I would never have got that on my own.

 

[Paul le Fou]

14 today, with 71.43% accuracy. Woohoo! I think it might just be an easy one, but I'm going to take the W anyway. That's a new record, breaking my previous of 16!

 

[Violentvixen]

Got it in 7! Water (13) is one of my standard early guesses, another useful one was surface (11).

 

[pudik]

a much better one after yesterday (which I just had to look up at 70 or so when i realized it was something i didn't know)

19 here, but mostly knew it earlier and couldn't recall the word