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

[Violentvixen]

I didn't even realize the original site was still working. Did the owner come back or did other people take it over?

Anyway, Redactle Unlimited was the same result but at least once we figured out the tricky part of the word it did take our result.

 

[Torzelbaum]

I didn't even realize the original site was still working. Did the owner come back or did other people take it over?

I'm not 100% sure but I think the people behind Unlimited cloned the original site to a different URL.

So I just discovered that there is a version available that's more like the original interface:
https://redactle.anybrowser.org/

 

[Torzelbaum]

So I just beat my record for fewest guesses (for a non-spoiled article) with 5 guesses today. (Accuracy was only 60% though.)

 

[Torzelbaum]

Comment about today's article that has a bit of a spoiler / hint:
Today's article would fit better later in the year.

 

[Torzelbaum]

Got today's in 2/2, 100%. Maybe I was lucky, but I just gleaned one key word ( cat ) right away and then went straight to the answer. I guess that ties with 3/3 for a two-worder, but by the numbers this is almost certainly my best ever.

The same thing happened to me today.

 

[Violentvixen]

Got today's (number 929) in 12. Technically 13 for the second word but whatever.

 

[Torzelbaum]

Got today's (number 929) in 12. Technically 13 for the second word but whatever.

It took me 31. (Did this article appear as a previous redactle? I vaguely remember seeing it before.)

 

[Paul le Fou]

Catching up after vacation and I got puzzle 924 (Trinidad and Tobago) in one! (Well, technically two, but y'know.)

 

[Torzelbaum]

Congratulations. I did that one in 19 (94.74%)

 

[Paul le Fou]

I had a good chuckle at today's (puzzle 951). Whoops!

 

[Violentvixen]

Yeah that was fun. Got it in 12. Guessed game at 8 which I wasn't completely confident in but then we were going to get it.

 

[Paul le Fou]

Yeah that was fun. Got it in 12. Guessed game at 8 which I wasn't completely confident in but then we were going to get it.

....I don't think we saw the same puzzle (somehow??) The one I was talking about had the wonderfully cryptic title of "AT&T" formatted exactly like that.

Ooh, I just clicked back to 951 and they must have fixed it by switching in a different puzzle! Good to know they're on top of stuff like that.

The new puzzle is fun too, though! I got it in 22, but have no idea how long it would have taken me had I not inadvertently read your spoiler.

 

[Yimothy]

I’m not playing redactle regularly any more but I pop in and out. I got today’s in three guesses, which isn’t bad when it’s three words. Should have tried the whole thing in one guess, not sure if it lets you do that.

 

[Violentvixen]

Today (it's late Pacific time so might be too late for some) is puzzle 1000, got it in 14.

 

[Paul le Fou]

Took me 20, but 1001 I got in only 19. It's pretty rad how the date and number lined up, this whole year will count the days up from 1001 to 1365.

 

[Yimothy]

I got today’s five words in my first five guesses - World War I appears pretty regularly on Wikipedia and has fairly distinct word sizes so I was pretty sure that was the bit in brackets, and from there it wasn’t too hard to figure it was either the eastern or western front. There was a bit in the text that looked like it might have had the battles of the Somme and Passchendaele and from there I got it.

Much better than my attempt at #1004 a couple days ago, which I figured was something medical but spent way too long going down the rabbit hole of HIV and other infections before figuring out it was circumcision. I think playing on a phone where it’s hard to see the size and shape of the article (and whether the angle you’re pursuing only appears in a small portion of the text) can be a bit of a disadvantage.

 

[Paul le Fou]

I had similar experiences - I got that one in 9 guesses instead of acing it in five, but the second puzzle you mention took me 140 and I used all my hints. Win some, lose some!

And yeah, this is one I couldn't really imagine trying to play on a phone. It's just too....big.

 

[Yimothy]

I got todays in 13, which didn’t feel that impressive considering I’m Australian. The key to it for me was that the word ”behind”, which is what it’s called when your shot at goal misses but is close enough and is worth one point to a goal’s six, wasn’t redacted.