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Redactle, the daily ████████-█████ ████████ puzzle
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Violentvixen
(She/Her)
My poor geography knowledge made this tough, but I never looked anything up which I'm proud of. I uncovered city, island and Asia early on, but I didn't have anything to guess other than Hong Kong and Taiwan. I only got it right because I put in the correct answer in hopes of it showing up in a sentence that would give me a hint.
But anyway I had no idea Singapore is an island until right now, definitely would have gotten it sooner if I had. 100 guesses but could have gotten it in 30 I'd say.
But anyway I had no idea Singapore is an island until right now, definitely would have gotten it sooner if I had. 100 guesses but could have gotten it in 30 I'd say.
I'm going to be honest about today's (noon 5/12) Redactle, I didn't have time to answer it in whole, so when I got most of the first line I Googled it and found the four letter word that's the title. I had a lot of the scientific/mathematic language uncovered, and I was thinking about "sol", which is a type of gel, but probably would not have ever gotten "foam" from what words I had uncovered. I was thinking too scientifically!
muteKi
Geno Cidecity
Yes, I did the same -- if I manage to reveal a long enough phrase I will search for it. 70 guesses, 35%. I initially thought this was a math topic, as a few math topics did show up early, but it turned out to be one of those topics in the interesting intersection of physics and chemistry
Yeah, which is why I'm embarrassed a bit, since I hold physics and chemistry bachelor degrees, and recently a Physics PhD... and I still couldn't get it! At least not easily. But yes, foams are super cool.
I really didn't have much of a clue until I stumbled on a phrase (glass of beer) that allowed me to stumble upon the answer.
"You solved it in 83 guesses
Your accuracy was 22.89%"
"You solved it in 83 guesses
Your accuracy was 22.89%"
167 guesses, 29%.
I thought it was a biology thing early on - I got “film” and was thinking of like biofilms from bacteria and stuff. Early guesses were “skin” and “scum” - I was trying to think of things that form on the surface of liquids, so I was pretty close. Before long I had most of the opening paragraph: “<blank> is a material formed by <blank> <blank> of gas in a liquid or solid.”, but I couldn’t thread the needle. Seemed pretty obvious once I got it.
I thought it was a biology thing early on - I got “film” and was thinking of like biofilms from bacteria and stuff. Early guesses were “skin” and “scum” - I was trying to think of things that form on the surface of liquids, so I was pretty close. Before long I had most of the opening paragraph: “<blank> is a material formed by <blank> <blank> of gas in a liquid or solid.”, but I couldn’t thread the needle. Seemed pretty obvious once I got it.
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
Argh I thought I guessed it much earlier. Looking back I submitted just a single letter so pretty sure that's where I meant to enter it. I would have gotten it then so 130 guesses.
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
Got today's (May 13th) in 40 with 55% accuracy and would have been ashamed if I'd needed much more than that as it as my undergraduate honors thesis was somewhat relevant to this and I had a grad school unit on various branches, although it was more focused on ribosomes and RNA/DNA/cell machinery differences. Mainly relieved redeemed myself after yesterday's screwup.
Today was the first time I've looked anything up for this game, it was how to spell the early wrong guess Archaea because I couldn't remember the vowel order and didn't want to waste a bunch of guesses fussing around with that. Bummed I had to resort to that but I let myself look up crossword vowel orders and double constants so that's fine.
Overall I think I'm forming a better plan of attack. I initially had this list of words:
But realized that wasn't acknowledging the general structure of Wikipedia itself. I think my two starting words before I go through those will be Culture and History because those are common subheadings that will help me dial into the realm of the topic much sooner.
Also I dunno how I feel about the accuracy stat. Determining that something is not in the article is often more important for me. That being said I think it would be fun to start posting our word with the most hits. Mine was eukaryotes with 21 for today. But my 8th guess was kingdom with 17 hits and that was what really put me down the right path.
Today was the first time I've looked anything up for this game, it was how to spell the early wrong guess Archaea because I couldn't remember the vowel order and didn't want to waste a bunch of guesses fussing around with that. Bummed I had to resort to that but I let myself look up crossword vowel orders and double constants so that's fine.
Overall I think I'm forming a better plan of attack. I initially had this list of words:
But realized that wasn't acknowledging the general structure of Wikipedia itself. I think my two starting words before I go through those will be Culture and History because those are common subheadings that will help me dial into the realm of the topic much sooner.
Also I dunno how I feel about the accuracy stat. Determining that something is not in the article is often more important for me. That being said I think it would be fun to start posting our word with the most hits. Mine was eukaryotes with 21 for today. But my 8th guess was kingdom with 17 hits and that was what really put me down the right path.
muteKi
Geno Cidecity
Culture, history, plant, and animal are usually my big opening words.
My biggest hit aside from the title was "not" with 17. I had gotten "animal", "plant", and "fungus" and with "not" that solidified what the article was about. Yesterday's best (again, aside from the title) was gas with 35.
My biggest hit aside from the title was "not" with 17. I had gotten "animal", "plant", and "fungus" and with "not" that solidified what the article was about. Yesterday's best (again, aside from the title) was gas with 35.
147 36.73% for me today.
My words with the most hits (that haven't already been mentioned) were algae (15) and organisms (14).
My words with the most hits (that haven't already been mentioned) were algae (15) and organisms (14).
Eh, people need to have some way to keep score. (I just wish it would ignore my typos.)
Only if you are playing against others and have all agreed not to use Google - there's nothing on the game site that says not to do that. Today's answer was somewhat technical and if people had ever heard the term before then it is probably something that most people wouldn't easily remember. I wasn't able to remember it but was able to back into it from another term that I did remember / know.
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127, 49.61% for me, and I only wound up getting it by googling “types of life”. I doubt I would ever have gotten it otherwise. I had guessed protozoa, which is not that far off for a layperson, I think.
My most frequent non-answer guess was “are” at 48 occurrences - obviously that’s not going to be the answer or even much help, but I find if I’m getting nowhere just clearing up the sea of blank rectangles can clarify things a bit.
My most frequent non-answer guess was “are” at 48 occurrences - obviously that’s not going to be the answer or even much help, but I find if I’m getting nowhere just clearing up the sea of blank rectangles can clarify things a bit.
72 guesses, 62.5%, didn't look anything up this time (finally!).
I wasn't onto something until I guessed "god", which has 61 (!) entries, at which point the hunt was on. Once I saw Judaism and Christianity and Islam that really started honing things down.
I wasn't onto something until I guessed "god", which has 61 (!) entries, at which point the hunt was on. Once I saw Judaism and Christianity and Islam that really started honing things down.
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
Yeah I'm sure I'll run into ones I don't know (a celebrity or historical person most likely) but trying to hold off as long as I can. I love the opportunity to think critically and learn this way though.
But for Worldle for example I do look stuff up. My rule is to get to the third guess before looking things up, then I just open a map and move that direction until I find something that looks right.
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
That was my guess with most hits too. I already had painting and sculpture uncovered so that gave me some idea of what I was looking for based on the prepositions that are uncovered by default.
I guessed Isaac then realized I had absolutely no idea what the name of the father was. I'm sure I read this at some point but I had no clue. It seemed unfair to just guess random biblical names until I got a hit so right after my previous post I cracked and searched, ha!
I found that out at about guess 48 but somehow just kept getting increasingly obscure in the wrong direction. Still guess 76, which I'm happy about, but despite being on track only had about a 55% accuracy. I'm starting to understand what are good early guesses in this, though.
I got this in 39 guesses, 66.67% accuracy, easily my best so far. I tend to start with geographical concepts, so an early leader for me was land, which got a lot of “land of” results, which made me think of biblical stuff, but I was thrown off by only one hit for religion (should have gone with “religions”, I think). Then I came on “god”, and it wasn’t far from there. I got Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, all in the opening sentence, and I was gonna try Abrahamic but went with just Abraham and got it.
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
Oh I liked today's. Went down a lot of weird paths but eventually found it and no word was really uncovering that much which was a challenge. 131 guesses.
I uncovered insect as a section header and that absolutely baffled me as I was thinking something quite different. Word with the most hits (other than the two in the answer) was skin with 13.
I uncovered insect as a section header and that absolutely baffled me as I was thinking something quite different. Word with the most hits (other than the two in the answer) was skin with 13.