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 😀🤗

299 guesses and I have the general gist, but nothing for the title. Didn't realise you were all googling, that might help if I had a good run at a sentence.

How do you actually guess the title? Do you just put those words in?

I'm not googling phrases, really can't see how you can with only 30 guesses 🤔

A detective puzzle! Yes, exactly that!
On the previous one I only needed Google right at the end, to get the first name exactly right.
On the current puzzle, I have Googled in stages, and each time got me a bit further.
But without Google I would not have got it, even if I spent all day guessing words.

Yes, that's right. But obviously you have to figure out what they are, by revealing the words in the article.

I don’t google whole sentences, but so far I’ve searched around subject areas.

so I got piano, composer, music and things along that lines. Got the country of birth and google told me the rest.
I would have got the current one without googling if I’d turned the plurals suggestion on.

im still doing it 200 plus guesses so it’s not that easy.

ive only been doing it a few days and none of them have subjects I know about. I reckon if someone is guessing it in low double digits they’ve either got very lucky with their starter words and/or it’s a subject they know a lot about.

For the googling I wait until I get a solid lead eg for the Chopin one I knew it was a composer who had written the Death March. I tried various composers, knew I wouldn't get it, and then googled who wrote the death march.

I don't just try and get enough to find the actual wiki article, I wouldn't find that very satisfying.

We're not all googling.

I’ve only done two.

On the Chopin one I knew the answer and had put what I thought was the spelling of his first name in, but needed Google to get the spelling right (I suppose I could have used the book I’m reading in which he features which is the only reason I got it quickly!)

The current one - goodness knows how but after nearly 200 guesses I managed to get a vague subject area and a particular title that wasn’t the answer but clearly featured. I had to Google that title once I’d run out of words I could come up with associated with it - I’d missed a rather obvious one that actually was in the title of the article. Once I’d got that, I was able to work out the answer! I wouldn’t Google sentences to find the exact Wikipedia article, but if there are areas where my subject knowledge is sadly lacking (like this current one) I might need a few hints. A bit like I sometimes use a theasaurus in semantle, but only when I deem myself to have tried enough without! I’m only playing against myself anyway so 🤷‍♀️

Tbh I had to use google for the Inclined Plane one, but only after I'd had around 200 guesses, I'd put ramp and ramps in before that.

Can I join?

I solved today's Redactle (#17) in 251 guesses with an accuracy of 39.84%. Played at www.redactle.com/

I am wildly inaccurate! It was my first attempt today. Don't think I've quite got the hang of it.

I am not doing that because it would be too easy and quick. I’m just Googling when I am pretty sure I know the answer but don’t know the word for it - like when it was the last Inca emperor - clearly if I have never known his name I’m not going to get it.

If you don't need to Google that is fantastic!

Some of us lesser mortals need a bit of extra help 😀

At the end of the day, it's not a competition!

@Redcrayons I have no general knowledge, no-one would want me on their quiz team and I’ve always lost at Trivial Pursuits! But I’m good at cryptic crosswords and scrabble so I solve Redactle by looking at how the words fit together rather than what they actually mean IYSWIM. So I don’t google to research the subject, just work on a few small areas of the article until a sentence (or part of a sentence) makes sense and googling that has always bought up the Wikipedia entry first time.

I’ve done three, scored 87, 19 and 31, knowing nothing about any of the subjects. So it might be luck though I think it’s strategy - but it might not continue to work 🤷🏻‍♀️ Whichever it is, it’s an interesting puzzle and a great work-out for my usually sluggish brain.

I wouldn’t enjoy it if I was aiming to complete a sentence to google, but I have googled both times I’ve played.
On yesterday’s one I knew I was looking for a 19th century Polish composer and pianist. Chopin was the first result. I’m a bit annoyed with myself because probably I would have got the surname independently fairly quickly had I kept going.
On the current one I googled twice. First was to find out the second word in the title. It was on the tip of my tongue but I just couldn’t remember it. Again I probably would have got it eventually but I was getting frustrated. Once I had that word I worked out what the article was about, but I had no idea what the first word was, so I googled a direct question and the Wikipedia page came up.

When I’ve got something close to a full sentence I google that and the Wikipedia article usually comes up.

I'm not googling to that extent as it would take the fun out of it for me. There's nothing wrong with googling around the subject matter though - that's called investigation.

OK, just got it in 91 guesses. Had to google to find out enough to get first word. But life is definitely too busy to play this one every day!!

I suppose the difference is I’m approaching Redactle as a word puzzle and others are seeing it as a general knowledge question - but if we’re each doing it in the way we enjoy most and best suits the way our brain works then all’s good 😊

The Washington Post one I got very quickly because there were words in the format X.X which I assumed would be A.D. or B.C - they weren’t but they were X.C - so I tried D.C. - et voila!

Of course 😊 I'm actually preferring Redactle to Semantle and Cemantle now 😬

@BlossomWind Yes! That’s exactly what I mean! Phew, don’t feel quite so much an outsider now.

I got Chopin but an struggling today. Am already up to nearly 300 guesses and am stuck!

When I’ve got something close to a full sentence I google that and the Wikipedia article usually comes up.

I would consider googling a whole sentence to be "cheating" but you do you (honestly, meant in a genuine and entirely non-snarky and non-PA way, it really doesn't matter how individuals decide to play the game 🙂).

But, realistically, without googling it is really difficult to solve. I got Chopin really quickly but without google, or an encyclopedia, I would never have got his first name. It's just not something that I know. Even when I googled it, I was somewhat surprised that I didn't think, oh of course it's Frederic. If I ever knew, it was completely forgotten.

On the other hand, it could well have been a composer that I had never heard of - there are thousands of people on wikipedia that I don't know about. Once I had established something along the lines of it being a Polish composer, known for piano compositions, I would probably have been happy to google to for suggestions.

Hence running out of battery!

Apologies if it's already been asked - do you get infinite guesses, or does it eventually put you out of your misery??