Redactle!

[MrsElm]

I solved today's Redactle (#16) in 61 guesses with an accuracy of 73.77%. Played at www.redactle.com/

I am so pleased with this that I have started this thread 😀🤗

I've PM'd you, hope it helps! It's harder to do clues - and I guess they'll have to be by PM - than in semantle where the green numbers can be used.

Have you figured out the general subject area?

Same here, got the second word reasonably quickly, but all my ideas for the first word were in the text but not the title. I didn't know / remember the first word was a type of that !

I solved today's Redactle (#19) in 146 guesses with an accuracy of 50.00%. Played at www.redactle.com/

@ErrolTheDragon No i haven't. I have two entirely opposing thoughts on that!

The trouble is, most people's intellect isn't enough to contain every subject in wikipedia. At some point, you get to the point that you know that the article is about the device used for getting stones out of horses hooves and have filled pretty much every gap in the article but you don't know what the device is called and are pretty sure you have never known what it is called. At this point it just becomes a random words guesser - destoner, rehoofinater, flurgbingle... and stops being fun, which, after all, is the whole point.

Killing me this one, 170 guesses and only a brief idea 😑

Just in case it comes up tomorrow, I googled and it's a hoof pick!

I agree. For example, I don't know Chopin's first name and I didn't know the exact thing for yesterday but did enough that Google research around the subject paid off (although for yesterday's one I did have to cave and Google a phrase because I'd tried so many versions!)

I'm also not even in the vague area.

Love the idea of guessing future spoilers

This is brilliantly put!

And I shall be using flurgbingle in every Redactle and Semantle from now on.

I solved today's Redactle (#19) in 175 guesses with an accuracy of 40.00%. Played at www.redactle.com/

Well that was friggin appalling 😑 No way would I have got that without a final Google 😑

Seems excellent to me. I am on 466 guesses and have no clue what it is on about!

@ApolloandDaphne think back to your core courses at school, and things that might have been covered in those.

... except at a pretty high level I would have thought? A-level not GCSE?

I am well educated and have several degrees in different subjects but this is eluding me completely. Maybe a subject I hated. Has it to do with physics possibly?It is one subject I did not get on with! ( Don't post spoilers though)

I agree that it is A level.

It's related to a very standard school subject, but isn't it specifically, and in fact that particular subject doesn't score any hits, surprisingly 🤔
Which doesn't sound nearly as helpful as I hoped 🤔

I have an A level in the correct subject and the particular topic wasn't covered. The topic in general (second half of title) was.

Even within the A level, there were options for different streams.

@ApolloandDaphne it's a significant subject

Even the very specific A level I took scores only 5 hits.

The first half of the title has been in some news stories the last couple of winters, but before then hardly anyone used the word.

Okay I have the subject. My equal worst along with physics!

I really don't want to give spoilers as it might get bigger and bigger and get completely out of control.

I think the problem with technical Redactles is that you have to know a lot of technical language to guess.

The one about Chopin - had words in it like family, country, lived, friend, studied, Paris - all sorts of words you could fill in and it was fairly easy to work out it was talking about a composer.

College of Cardinals - harder, but managed to work out fairly quickly it was Catholic Church related.

This last one - very technical and specialist. Not the sort of "general knowledge" which people pick up even though they have no academic training in the subject. Lots of people who have never studied music will have heard of Chopin. This - not so much.