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Redactle, the daily ████████-█████ ████████ puzzle
- Thread starter DFalcon
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Violentvixen
(She/Her)
Damn, son!
71 guesses, 69.01% accuracy
Maybe I should feel worse about this one but I tend to be very liberal with guesses, and finished within ten minutes, so I'm going to reclaim my physics card from Torzelbaum. I may not deserve it but my ego requires it!
Once I saw subscript, that took me down the mathematics/science rabbit hole and usually I can get to where I need to go fast enough. Stumbled across the nucleus, and finally saw particles, I was home free.
Maybe I should feel worse about this one but I tend to be very liberal with guesses, and finished within ten minutes, so I'm going to reclaim my physics card from Torzelbaum. I may not deserve it but my ego requires it!
Once I saw subscript, that took me down the mathematics/science rabbit hole and usually I can get to where I need to go fast enough. Stumbled across the nucleus, and finally saw particles, I was home free.
I got it in the following so I guess you can have your card back. For now...
- You solved it in 63 guesses
- Your accuracy was 60.32%
muteKi
Geno Cidecity
31, 67.4%
"an electric or magnetic field" "as an electromagnetic field, or because the"
Once again I figured math before I thought physics because of the revealed plus and minus. A couple things (something about how 'less' and 'more' showed up, I believe) made me think that electricity and magnetism, and from there it fell directly into place. Highest guess was "number" with 49.
76 guesses, 72.37%
"atomic" and "nuclear" were followed by "energy" as my biggest hits at the time, so I was going down paths for subatomic particles, covalent bonds, power generation, fission/fusion, etc.
"Half" was the guess that locked it in, because "life" followed after, which gave me "decay." After that it was just remembering what the first word actually was. Ironically I had thought about guessing radiation-related words earlier and must've gotten distracted.
"Half" was the guess that locked it in, because "life" followed after, which gave me "decay." After that it was just remembering what the first word actually was. Ironically I had thought about guessing radiation-related words earlier and must've gotten distracted.
I think this is my favorite of the daily word guessing games to arise from Wordle. I got today's in 167 guesses with 76.65% accuracy, which is pretty typical for me since I usually try a bunch of common words before seriously trying to figure out the answer; today in particular, I also went down the rabbit hole of math terms after getting zero hits on 'physics' and took a while to recover.
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
May 25th- 26 (technically 27 but misspelled and immediately re-entered a word), and looks like I hit this from a pretty different direction from most, I focused on eliminating concepts more than usual and probably reread the redacted article five times. Looking through the article and noticing the subscripts, plus and minus were automatically uncovered set the tone.
First guess was zero (1) which I knew would give me a big hint as to what topics I could eliminate. After a couple more did equation (10), then the fact that physics had no hits intrigued me and made me go through the article again. Other ones with small hit counts but important information were mathematics (the fact that it wasn't in the opening paragraph told me a lot), set (all the subscripts made me wonder if it was Venn diagrams or something), speed, light and ratio. Then I guessed time (41) and did another readthrough. Guessed energy (44) on this new readthrough realized nuclear (24) was a good next step to narrow things down, then there was only one phrase that fit.
First guess was zero (1) which I knew would give me a big hint as to what topics I could eliminate. After a couple more did equation (10), then the fact that physics had no hits intrigued me and made me go through the article again. Other ones with small hit counts but important information were mathematics (the fact that it wasn't in the opening paragraph told me a lot), set (all the subscripts made me wonder if it was Venn diagrams or something), speed, light and ratio. Then I guessed time (41) and did another readthrough. Guessed energy (44) on this new readthrough realized nuclear (24) was a good next step to narrow things down, then there was only one phrase that fit.
Uh, whoa. 22 guesses, 77.27% accuracy.
Battles, war, multiple centuries listed... America shows up very late, no France, no England... is it samurai? Oh! It is!
Battles, war, multiple centuries listed... America shows up very late, no France, no England... is it samurai? Oh! It is!
35 guesses, 97.14% accuracy.
I put in "no" and saw it in the middle of hyphenated words, which made me think it was something to do with Japan. It also looked like one of those hyphenated words was the name of a battle, so after confirming that and counting letters in the title, I got it.
I put in "no" and saw it in the middle of hyphenated words, which made me think it was something to do with Japan. It also looked like one of those hyphenated words was the name of a battle, so after confirming that and counting letters in the title, I got it.
34 guesses, 82.35%
I took a funny path to this one. I immediately recognized it as a kind of historical concept older than the modern day, especially when "world" and "history" opened me up. I was poking around century, king, kingdom, ruler, empire, rome, etc. My first gut guess was something like "Byzantium."
Then, as I was scrolling down, I saw "███ was based on King ████." King Lear? A three letter word based on King Lear? That was Ran, I knew it in my blood. So I checked "Kurosawa" and yep, a lot of hits for (Akira) Kurosawa in that paragraph. I guessed Japan, got 53 hits, looked at it for a few more seconds, and it all clicked into place.
I took a funny path to this one. I immediately recognized it as a kind of historical concept older than the modern day, especially when "world" and "history" opened me up. I was poking around century, king, kingdom, ruler, empire, rome, etc. My first gut guess was something like "Byzantium."
Then, as I was scrolling down, I saw "███ was based on King ████." King Lear? A three letter word based on King Lear? That was Ran, I knew it in my blood. So I checked "Kurosawa" and yep, a lot of hits for (Akira) Kurosawa in that paragraph. I guessed Japan, got 53 hits, looked at it for a few more seconds, and it all clicked into place.
Olli
(he/him)
I solved today's Redactle (#50) in 5 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/
I mean.... damn!!!!!
I mean.... damn!!!!!
Looks like I did worse than the Tyrant average (but better than the global one).
- You solved it in 44 guesses
- Your accuracy was 79.55%
MrBlarney
(he / him)
Meanwhile, I'm bringing down the community average with my 73/96, 76.04%.
But sometimes you get that fixed mindset no matter how often you set the puzzle aside over the course of the day. At least I got the perfect 2/2 on Tuesday's (#48) red sea and a commendable 25/27 on yesterday's (#49) radioactive decay. You win some, and you lose some.
I had it in my head at the start that it was a kind of group or collective, but couldn't figure out enough to go for the ace. So I used my first three guesses on the fairly standard "were", "they", and "their". The lack of "group" (guess 13) or "tribe" (guess 18) really baffled me.
I was pretty stuck from there until I found "China" on guess 80, wasting a few more guesses before unlocking "Japan" on guess 86. Then I continued to brain fart with shogun(s) on guesses 88 and 89, and daimyos on guesses 93 and 94. It took me way too long to think of the winning word.
In retrospect, I probably could have figured the one-character in parentheses after "samurai" would be a single kanji, which would have excluded both shogun and daimyo. And an early unearthing of some weird stuff around "head" and "cut" on guesses 15 and 17 should have probably tipped me off better.
I was pretty stuck from there until I found "China" on guess 80, wasting a few more guesses before unlocking "Japan" on guess 86. Then I continued to brain fart with shogun(s) on guesses 88 and 89, and daimyos on guesses 93 and 94. It took me way too long to think of the winning word.
In retrospect, I probably could have figured the one-character in parentheses after "samurai" would be a single kanji, which would have excluded both shogun and daimyo. And an early unearthing of some weird stuff around "head" and "cut" on guesses 15 and 17 should have probably tipped me off better.
But sometimes you get that fixed mindset no matter how often you set the puzzle aside over the course of the day. At least I got the perfect 2/2 on Tuesday's (#48) red sea and a commendable 25/27 on yesterday's (#49) radioactive decay. You win some, and you lose some.
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
I got stuck on boat-related military stuff. 117, oh well.
But I had so many words with so many hits ugh century (32), people (19), Korea (16), Japan (53), emperor (20), battle (21), death (19), army (20), Japanese (72), military (31), power (15).
For whatever reason I randomly decided to guess sword (13) then samurai was the only obvious progression from there. Yeesh.
But I had so many words with so many hits ugh century (32), people (19), Korea (16), Japan (53), emperor (20), battle (21), death (19), army (20), Japanese (72), military (31), power (15).
For whatever reason I randomly decided to guess sword (13) then samurai was the only obvious progression from there. Yeesh.
31 for me. I thought it was going to be a ruler of some sort based on the single character in brackets - I thought it would be a I indicating the first, which doesn’t actually make sense in retrospect. Trying to figure out ruler of what I uncovered warring states period, and which had me thinking of China, from there I went Korea, then Japan, from there I tried shogun and daimyo before putting in samurai not expecting it to be the answer but it was.
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
May 27th- I'm at 185 guesses and have uncovered a ton of this article (including most of the bulleted list at the bottom and most of the temporary restraining order section). When I uncover it I'm either going to be furious at myself for not guessing some obvious overarching concept, or will be relieved to see that it's something I don't know. As of the moment I'm totally baffled and am running out of legal terminology to guess. The fact that domestic violence is in here but wife, woman, protection, adult, man, witness and victim are all zero is really throwing me off. Also I know it starts with a vowel since the opening sentence is "an blank" but it's not annulment or appeal, ugh. Man I must be way off.
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- You solved it in 145 guesses
- Your accuracy was 32.41%
if you want a vague hint, you're on the right path, especially with restraining order. If you want a more specific hint, it is almost nearly the same thing as a restraining order. I feel like maybe a restraining order is even considered a type of the answer, but there's probably more legal nuance i don't know.
Not a great showing for me (especially after the last few).
- You solved it in 125 guesses
- Your accuracy was 29.60%
If you want another hint - try to look for a different starting vowel
Got it in 167. This one was really hard for me. It took me 96 guesses to land on party, which is what tipped me off that it was some kind of legal term. But I could barely make any headway even after that. I left it sitting while I had lunch, and then as I was eating I realized I hadn't guessed what the answer turned out to be.
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
I was already past 200 when @Lumber Baron started, but he struggled with it too and we agreed that when he got to 200 we'd collaborate. I was at 448 (really a few below that due to misspellings) and he plugged in a couple of my guesses that he hadn't thought of then the correct answer occurred to him.
I have heard this word but honestly only vaguely knew what it meant, even @pudik's hint wouldn't have gotten me to think of it unless I really focused on the section about the media not being allowed to cover stuff, but even then that's a stretch. Not too bummed as reviewing my overall approach I think it was a good one, especially since I got court (25) early.
I have heard this word but honestly only vaguely knew what it meant, even @pudik's hint wouldn't have gotten me to think of it unless I really focused on the section about the media not being allowed to cover stuff, but even then that's a stretch. Not too bummed as reviewing my overall approach I think it was a good one, especially since I got court (25) early.
621 guesses, 28.99% accuracy. Six hundred twenty-fucking-one guesses.
Fuck this one.
Fuck this one.
I poked around until I got "Law" at 106, and then spent 500 guesses flailing between every single legal term I could think of and anything related to them, in every form and tense I could think of. I honestly didn't get anything until pudik's vague hint and guessed restraining and order (and orders). After that it was 6 more unhelpful guesses before I remembered and guessed the word "injunction" and was surprised to find it was the title and my nightmare was over.
102, 39% for me. The initially revealed stuff and my early guesses made me think it was a concept rather than a concrete person place or thing, then I hit on order, law, and court between guesses 27 and 34, then I flailed about trying to remember legal concepts for another seventy guesses.