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Yeah, I eventually got the second word of answer and immediately gave up and googled it.

Sayoria posted...

Please stop with these physics redactles. Jesus Christ. I wish I was a rocket scientist every other day.

I read today that STEM related articles make up about 36% of the list Redactle pulls from.

Crap, I fucked up on this one.

I thought I had it at 26 guesses with subatomic particles, but that wasn't quite right, so I started thinking of different types of subatomic particles and did a quick Wikipedia check to confirm whether a lepton was an actual thing or if I was just making it up. Turns out that it is, and it had the article title in the short description. Oops.

I don't know how long it would have taken me to get to the title otherwise.

JlM posted...

I read today that STEM related articles make up about 36% of the list Redactle pulls from.

There's literally sports, hobbies, movies, actors/actresses, historic events, musicians and so much more they could use.

I don't think there's been a single musician yet in this. We've had one actress. I don't think a single movie. Like..... man, I am about to throw in the towel on this one myself. I found quantum mechanics, and I don't even honestly know what that is. I only heard of it.

First time trying this.

Yeah, I wish it wasn't fucking physics

Kind of brutal

I understand wanting to not appeal to the same shit that other "brain teaser" puzzles do but come on.

El Marsh posted...

First time trying this.

Yeah, I wish it wasn't fucking physics

Kind of brutal

I understand wanting to not appeal to the same shit that other "brain teaser" puzzles do but come on.

There's better ones. If this is your first, you got unlucky here. I recommend trying again. We've gotten ones as easy as "Snow", "Screw" and "Ice Skating" in the past. These physics ones come up..... a little too often, but this is actually fun when it isn't something you need to be a quantum physicist to know.

Just looking around in the Level 4 articles they pull from. There are only two video games. Tetris and Pokemon.

Somehow got the second word. Trying hard to think of what the first could be.

First time I played this game, and I love it. Definitely my favorite wordle spinoff

279 guess, 23.66% accuracy. Which is horrible, but Im extremely unfamiliar with common Wikipedia vocabulary. I went with a bunch of numbers, tried guessing years, days of the week, months, etc.

Eventually I decided to properly skim the article, saw a section with a bunch of ups and downs right next to each other and immediately thought of quarks. It was hit after hit for my last 20 guesses.

Im really excited to try this again now that I have a slightly better idea of what *not* to waste guesses on. I cant imagine uncovering the word August is going to help me ever.. idk why I even tried that shit lol

Cyniclinic posted...

First time I played this game, and I love it. Definitely my favorite wordle spinoff

279 guess, 23.66% accuracy. Which is horrible, but Im extremely unfamiliar with common Wikipedia vocabulary. I went with a bunch of numbers, tried guessing years, days of the week, months, etc.

Eventually I decided to properly skim the article, saw a section with a bunch of ups and downs right next to each other and immediately thought of quarks. It was hit after hit for my last 20 guesses.

Im really excited to try this again now that I have a slightly better idea of what *not* to waste guesses on. I cant imagine uncovering the word August is going to help me ever.. idk why I even tried that shit lol

August woulda helped before, because one word we had was "Autumn" and for some reason, I tried August and it helped.

I solved today's Redactle (#68) in 70 guesses with an accuracy of 50.00%.

I donked this one all up. Had really good hits at three and four guesses with television and show.
For whatever reason I started focusing on the technical aspects of television, lighting and camera work, etc. Camera got me some hits and that kept me going

Even when I hit with comedy at 46 it still didn't click.

It took me until I had the entire sentence "A _____________comedy television program may be recorded in front of a studio audience"

93 guesses, 35.48% accuracy

My first dozen guesses were complete misses, than I happened to hit genre which at least guided me to the arts, but television was of course my last guess and finally gave me another hit.

For some reason, I was just absolutely stumped (and over-focusing on) the early sentence a genre of comedy and for almost the entire game was completely misunderstanding what that was saying. Then it clicked in my head and I realized it was a sub-genre. Hit on comedy and then cleared it two guesses later.

Sayoria posted...

August woulda helped before, because one word we had was "Autumn" and for some reason, I tried August and it helped.

Well I stand corrected, hahaha

This is such a great idea for a game. I do feel like maybe they have a couple too many basic words still hidden at default - Be and Are for example are surprising to have redacted. But thats not taking any enjoyment away, dont get me wrong.

What the Hell is this word. 100+ in, best word was "One" at 6 hits.

• You solved it in 253 guesses
• Your accuracy was 20.16%

Easily my worst one yet. Absolutely disgusting. If I didn't get "All in the Family", I'd have easily went another 500.

I assume accuracy is measuring number of guesses that result in at least one hit, is that correct?

That is correct, yes. So if I had 100% accuracy, that would mean that every single guess I did yielded at least one hit in the article. My accuracy today means 1/5 words I did was at least one hit. Which is terrible.

I randomly guessed show at about 100 and had the answer about 10 more after that. Was flailing randomly until that point.

Relient_K posted...

I randomly guessed show at about 100 and had the answer about 10 more after that. Was flailing randomly until that point.

Man, when I guessed "gas", I was totally thrown off with that and the mix of various countries.....

Sayoria posted...

That is correct, yes. So if I had 100% accuracy, that would mean that every single guess I did yielded at least one hit in the article. My accuracy today means 1/5 words I did was at least one hit. Which is terrible.

Thank you for clarifying for me!

Well, I don't like this article. 50 guesses in and I still don't have a clue what this is about other than there being a short list of mostly Anglophone countries.

Alright, I got it. 75 guesses, 68.00% accuracy.

I finally figured out that it was about television, so I tried a bunch of TV-related words until I got comedy, which sealed it.

I solved today's Redactle (#69 [nice] ) in 19 guesses with an accuracy of 57.89%.

I tried Ra right from the start. Then I got a few hits from Asia. Tossed out a few random words with no luck until it clicked in my brain what it would likely be. I really need to learn to stop and think a little before diving in.

Got mine in 90. I tried to solve it through context but ended up getting the answer by mistake. Would have been a while if I needed to solve today through context. I'm familiar with it but don't know much about it and it isn't something I would likely think about on my own.

You solved it in 1 guesses
Your accuracy was 100.00%

Made sense that it could be. Thought about two letter words. My mind was instantly around asia, with Gi, Ki, and other things like that. Then I thought of Go, and was like "It's a game, and there's 4 letters in the brackets...." I also kind of filled the blanks in mentally of 'Board Game for Two Players' after coming to the possibility it was Go.

27 guesses, 85.19% accuracy

Initially thought it might be something math-related, but then I hit the word light and noticed the phrase "____ produce no light of their own" further down the article, which got me on the right track.

Lol, I got the three letters in the bracket, but not sure what it stands for. Fuck. I know the D.

This one was tough. 161 guesses, 46.58% accuracy.

My early guesses got me in the technology area, but then not-very-helpful words like device and powered were all I was getting. At some point is started to feel like it was directly related to computers, so I just puked out tons of related words. Guess 155 was display and then 161 cleared it all.

I had to look up what the abbreviation stood for. I never would have gotten it in a million years.

I solved today's Redactle (#70) in 234 guesses with an accuracy of 61.97%.

Sheesh. I almost gave up since I had so much uncovered without knowing the answer.

I gave up. I know it was LCD, and just googled to fill in the blanks.

While I needed to look up the actual answer, I knew what to look up very quickly today and got the answer very fast. I knew it was a city in France less than a minute after starting.

I solved today's Redactle (#71) in 7 guesses with an accuracy of 57.14%.

I really wanted to get this in one, but I needed unblind a certain box before I could take a good shot.

I was fairly sure that it was a city at the mouth of a river. Just needed to know which five letter river. Tried Plate and Rhine then Rhone

This one hurt. I figured "Capital" and nothing fit. I tried Jerusalem and Islamabad, because I assumed "---- of the Mediterranean Sea" meant East. I eventually plugged in east to find out I was totally off. I needed a map. Now we are getting province capitals. Great. Wouldn't have gotten this.

Another 1 guess geography day for me. Keep 'em coming.

Figured from the first paragraph that it was near the mouth of a river, and from the third paragraph that it was founded by the ancient Greeks. Then I checked to make sure that the letters fit the title, and also that when you added the extra 's' that it fit the little blurb which I assumed was the phrase "also spelled in English as...".

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Another 1 guess geography day for me. Keep 'em coming.

Figured from the first paragraph that it was near the mouth of a river, and from the third paragraph that it was founded by the ancient Greeks. Then I checked to make sure that the letters fit the title, and also that when you added the extra 's' that it fit the little blurb which I assumed was the phrase "also spelled in English as...".

Oof. I was going to mention in my previous post that I expected you to ace this one, but thought that kind of pressure was cruel. Glad I didn't, lol. I'm going to ace one of these geograpgy ones eventually. Still kicking myself over Senegal

Geographical ones are totally the easiest. I aced Lisbon and Angola. Got Senegal in under 5. Got Singapore in under 10. Got Grenada in like 19. Got hte Red Sea under 5. Lagos was the only one to really damage me outside of today's. <- Not a direct spoiler to today's. Just it relates to the topic of today's.

I just won't get many of these if they go beyond capitals and countries.

Sayoria posted...

Don't worry, tomorrow's will be Professor Zmecklinkowski's Theory Of Kinetic Particle Goofyshoes Pumpernickelism

Nah, spoiler. This is tomorrow's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

I solved today's Redactle (#72) in 84 guesses with an accuracy of 35.71%.

I got light at 8 but didn't think to try glass until 75 even though i had words like mirror and lens

280ish today. I was way off base until about 230. It was such a short one which surprised me considering the topic.

This crushed my soul. 387 guesses, 19.8% accuracy.
Worst part is is just got it by a fluke. I was dead-focused on some sort of camera-related thing for most of it, until the last two guesses.

• You solved it in 20 guesses
• Your accuracy was 40.00%

Okayish, given accuracy.

I actually thought this was one we did before but I guess not.

32 guesses, 73.53% accuracy

After a while, I was able to uncover most of the phrase "break up _____ into its constituent _____" and after trying several different words, I hit with colors, which was the breakthrough.

Thinking back on what I had, I don't even know why Prism came into my mind, when I didn't even do 'colors' .... and 'color' only yielded 1 hit, and spectrum only yielded 1 hit.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/3/8/AAKLOFAADWiS.png

Given all this, I'm surprised I didn't go off on a tangent.

I was missing on almost everything before guessing prism and it wasn't that satisfying.

Man, Tom and Jerry fits in today's slot, but I don't see anything lining up with "An animated" or "A Cartoon" in the first sentence. I notice that the "and" is Italicized too, indicating it's a title of something. If I can't think of anything else that fits, I'll probably still try it, but .... >.> .... Then I see "It was" indicating that it is not just a group of two people, and that it was likely a show or something named like that but no longer exists?.

Well, I was right in that I was wrong about the above. I can't think of anything else.

16 guesses, 81.25% accuracy.
First guess was novel which made things pretty easy from there.
I literally *just* read War and Peace at the end of last year. It was.. I mean, Ill *never* look at it again, I can say that much. It wasnt bad, but it was very hard to get through.

97. I originally thought it was a show or movie but figured out it was a book at around 60 and gradually worked it out from there. american centric thinking often gets in my way when doing these as I often assume it is of American or British origin.

My initial guess before I realized it was too short was ren and stimpy lol

I tried thinking about languages where "and" is one letter. I first ruled out an ampersand, then found it wasn't Spanish with "y", then tried "Russian" and found that was it. Saw the 4-letter word and though "show" but checking that made me think a little better, cleared it with guess 6.