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

[Yimothy]

97 for me, I thought it was some kind of animal from the start, got fish at 47, spent a while trying pretty fruitlessly to narrow things down by guessing stuff like river, ocean, lake, deep, shallow, was pretty much ready to give up and then remora popped into my head and that was it. I barely know what a remora is, so really just luck.

 

[Yimothy]

Got it in four today: I looked at it and thought “Northern Lights”, which wouldn’t have actually fit if I’d counted the letters, so I guessed Northern, which got me a decent number of hits but wasn’t in the title, so I tried Southern, which was in the title, then Lights, which got no hits. So I actually counted the letters, thought for a bit, and got it.

 

[Violentvixen]

38, uncovered Freud and froze for a bit while running through things I thought it could be. This was a fun one to do together, really enjoying that Redactle-Unlimited feature.

 

[Paul le Fou]

Got it in 8 today, but with help. I had "landlocked country in Southern Africa" and at that point I googled for examples. Still, 8!

 

[Torzelbaum]

Got it in 8 today, but with help.

Same but in 15 (accuracy 73.33%).

 

[lincolnic]

Basically the same here too, got it in 6 off of "bordered by South Africa".

 

[Yimothy]

I got it in one, but I did look at my atlas. I had figured it was a landlocked country in either Africa or Europe, formally named the republic of something, so I had a look at boundaries on the map and compared the list of borders’ word lengths to other countries and there you go.

 

[lincolnic]

I got it in one, but I did look at my atlas. I had figured it was a landlocked country in either Africa or Europe, formally named the republic of something, so I had a look at boundaries on the map and compared the list of borders’ word lengths to other countries and there you go.

I think being able to do that much legwork without filling in any of the blanks means you still earned that win. Well done.

 

[Yimothy]

Redactle is very good both for making you feel really clever and making you feel really dumb, depending on how it goes.

 

[Paul le Fou]

2 today, and only because I used one guess to confirm that the subject was indeed on Earth (my first thought was "Io," not that it would have fit any of the rest. The formatting and prepositions of the first line made it clear it was elevation, the second-highest something, and in a (mountain) range. I didn't immediately remember a 2-letter name so I googled the tallest mountains, spotted the answer immediately (right there in #2 position, naturally) and took my W.

 

[Torzelbaum]

I also used that guess and a few others but still got the answer very quickly (5 guesses, 60% accuracy). Which is my lowest number of guesses to date. I also knew/remembered the answer without having to look it up so I don't have to mark my record with an asterisk.

Redactle is very good both for making you feel really clever and making you feel really dumb, depending on how it goes.

Or really forgetful (like when I completely forgot about Yasser Arafat the other day).

 

[Eishtmo]

1 and done. Didn't even need to a confirming guess, just jumped. So nice when that happens.

 

[Yimothy]

My second one-shot in a row! There just aren’t that many viable two-letter answers, I guess.

 

[lincolnic]

This one was frustrating for me, because I knew exactly what I was looking for from the opening paragraph, but I don't know the names of mountains that aren't Everest. Took me eight guesses (and a little Googling) instead of one.

 

[Paul le Fou]

219 today, though with 71% accuracy. I had landed in the right ballpark around guess 39 with property and danced around every political philosophy and related terminology and keywords I could think of until it finally came to me. Feels like I should've gotten this one sooner but there are soooooooo many terms and I kept thinking more historical, while my association with the word is more modern (and largely unrelated to the actual term, as so many political-philosophical terms are these days).

 

[Torzelbaum]

It's kind of wild how much results can vary in this game. I got today's result in 20 guesses with 90% accuracy (without looking at any spoilers).

In conclusion, Libya Redactle is a land of contrasts

 

[Yimothy]

I got it in 29 - I figured from the opening sentence that it was an English word derived from a French word derived from Latin, which could easily have been wrong but wasn’t, then I poked around a bit before hitting on state, from there political and philosophy, eventually liberal and got it from there.

 

[lincolnic]

34 here, similar to Yimothy, but it was anarchism that clued me in to the answer.

 

[Paul le Fou]

Today's took me way too long - I spent too much time thinking it was from antiquity, especially after I got Venus, mars, and mercury relatively early on. Also, there not being a "The" in the page title really messed me up, even though the article started with it. That's not how I would have ever naturally phrased the title of an article about that topic.

 

[Torzelbaum]

Yesterday's and today's both had me internally screaming "Stupid French bullshit!" after finally solving them

 

[Yimothy]

Today’s and yesterday’s both needed the atlas for me to solve, though I probably would have gotten today’s eventually without it - I thought of the Tuileries and was drawing a blank on other French palaces but should have known Versailles. Yesterdays I had no hope - I’d figured it was somewhere arctic and probably in Canada, but I don’t known my Canadian geography very well.

 

[Torzelbaum]

4 and 75% for me for today's. That lucky guess paid off. It will probably be a long time (or maybe never) before I do better than that.

 

[lincolnic]

It will probably be a long time (or maybe never) before I do better than that.

You might surprise yourself! I felt like that for a while, but now I've gotten a few on the first guess. If I can do that, anyone can.

Meanwhile, today took me 44. Had a whole lot of nothing until I guessed World War (II), and then decided to take a shot at weapon right after. Then I wasted a bunch of guesses until I figured I needed to be more generic.

 

[Yimothy]

Nine for me, I made an initial guess of patio for some reason, from there history, used, weapon, a bit of fumbling and I had it.

 

[Paul le Fou]

Huh, I somehow skipped or didn't finish yesterday's. Weird.

Anyway, I got today's in 90 (75% accuracy). I got the 3rd title word on my very first guess, so I had a decent idea, and spent some time narrowing those things down. Then I knew it was a war between the French and the Germans or something like it, but it took me until 89 before the 2nd title word (Prussian) came to mind. For some reason, that immediately twigged me to the answer and the 1st word which I really should've come up with sooner, seeing as "French" was my 2nd guess.

 

[lincolnic]

Somehow got today's in 22, which I am frankly shocked about because I'm not great at history.

 

[Torzelbaum]

4 and 75% for me for today's. That lucky guess paid off. It will probably be a long time (or maybe never) before I do better than that.

Or maybe just a single day since I got today's in 4 and 100% (but did have to search to verify my final guess).

You might surprise yourself! I felt like that for a while, but now I've gotten a few on the first guess. If I can do that, anyone can.

Maybe but my process is generally not very conducive for doing that.

 

[Yimothy]

Got it in four today, painfully close to a perfect score. My first guess (aimed at the third word of the title) was man, zero hits. I thought about it, got the third word on my next guess and the other two from there.

 

[Paul le Fou]

96 today, only 40% accuracy. I was flailing pretty badly until I hit "group" and "groups" at 87 and 88, after which it was a pretty easy run to the finish. But I think this one will either be hard or luck-based for a lot of people, since it doesn't seem to have a lot of common starter words. Or at least, not my common starter words.

 

[Torzelbaum]

But I think this one will either be hard or luck-based for a lot of people, since it doesn't seem to have a lot of common starter words.

I think I got lucky with my educated guess that I was trying to use to narrow things down but which ended up being the answer. (18, 33%)