Redactle 2!

[MrsElm]

By popular demand, here is thread no. 2!
You can play here: Redactle.com
Previous thread is www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4535817-redactle?page=40&reply=116984560
The only rules are:
No spoilers please
It's up to you if you Google or not!
Enjoy!

Because its an Internet game and not an A-level, it gives a little hit of dopamine if you solve it yourself, more relief if it's been a pisser. Still feel relieved if I Google. I don't play any of these games tactically or have a plan to get the fewest words. Just to pass a few minutes.

I prefer not to google, but when it's something like Exponential Distribution then I'm going to need clues to help me work it out. I've not used google since then, but I'm sure I'll need to do so again sometime.

I didn't know there was even a island called Lagos so probably wouldn't have helped Googling!

I think that's what I interested in, is the dopamine hit the same?
Obviously it's not an exam, but that was the point I was trying to get at - is the satisfaction the same for some people and not for others.

BTW, I am absolutely no fun at quizzes or board games! I'm sure you can tell!

well today taught me certain interesting things when googling

164 today. Took me so much longer than it should have - I guessed two slightly different versions of the word and was guessing everything I vaguely knew about the subject area and couldn't get it!

I solved today's Redactle (#26) in 9 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%. Played at www.redactle.com/

Here's another interesting google/not google example.

With exponential distribution, I had distribution and I knew it was some sort of statistical distribution but it's not an area I know particularly much about and I had tried all both the distributions that I could think of.

My personal rules say that googling "list of statistical distributions" and trying them all would be cheating but research isn't. My first source was to look for a 20 year old teach yourself statistics book that we had at some point but I couldn't find it. So how could I research? It had to be on a statistics syllabus somewhere. I tried BBC bitesize (OK, I googled BBC bitesize to take me to the right site) but that didn't help. Then I googled Edexcel and went to their website. Searched subjects for GCSE statistics and looked at the syllabus. It obviously was too low a level so I looked for the A level syllabus instead. A bit of scanning through the syllabus and I found the answer.

With this one, I might have got exponential in the end if I had just kept throwing mathematical terms into the search box but, equally, it could have been named after someone like Poisson (yes that was one that I actually did try!) and it would have taken a million years, or at least until 5pm the next day.

It took me 83 guesses with 65.06% accuracy today - tricky little tinker it was!

FFS - 222 today (should've got it at 65 if I'd have used a slightly longer word!)

I think the thing with redactle is it covers so many very different areas, and some of them are specialised or require specific knowledge. So for me, if I Google, it's part of doing my research.

Yesterday, for example, I realised that Palmerston was the lord referred to - but my knowledge of his role in British/world history is really poor (as is my geography, it turns out ) so along with other guesses at other words, this research helped me get there.

If it was a competition, then it would be very different.

I nearly did that as well, fortunately, it only took me four more guesses to realise! I suspect a few people might get tripped up like that - it's cardinal/cardinals all over again!

83
i have a related degree
I am a. Idiot! Skirted around for ages

Yep similar to me, I put in a slightly shorter and a slightly longer word but missed the word itself.

That to me is hard-core research User and I would definitely just quit rather than do that! That's impressive commitment. I did end up guessing random maths words to get that one!
And yes, I can see how research helped! But I think you're right, that is different to.googling "types of statistical distribution" or "Out of Africa actress".

I also have wasted many guesses with typos (one repeated word in today's for example), but my self-imposed (pointless) rules on googling won't let me look up spellings either! 🙄

lagos 5 100.00%
hospital 19 239.06%
screw 45 57.78%
buddhist philosophy 171 63.74%
zoology 37 59.46%
meryl streep 49 65.31% - got some hefty hints from DP
exponential distribution 190 43.16% - internet research
snow 27 51.85%
college of cardinals 223 31.39% - googled for college
frederic chopin 25 76.00% - googled for frederic

At the moment I am 60% google and/or hint free.

Oh it really annoys me that it allows clearly misspelt words! Especially as I have a habit of hitting ] and enter at the same time!

I think your brain plays tricks on you and you think "I've already tried that word" (at least that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it)

Despite my use of Google, I am particularly bad at this game. But I like the puzzle, and yes Google helps me solve the puzzle. You still have to find the particulars to Google...

Ohhh, I didn't know you could see all your stats! You're very clever. You can see just how bloody minded I am from my 558 and 550 guesses! Luckily I had time, as one I was a passenger on a long car journey, and one was a Sunday!

lagos 64 57.81%
hospital 54 51.85%
screw 229 42.36%
buddhist philosophy 80 52.50%
zoology 88 42.05%
meryl streep109 66.06%
exponential distribution 558 21.68%
snow 17 100.00%
college of cardinals 269 19.33%
inclined plane 550 24.00%

VivienneDelacroix 500+ is some determination!

Oops, how rude, I meant VivienneDelacroix, not VivienneDelacroix. Sorry!!!

Mine was seeing ' on the ' in italics and it triggered band on the run and then i went of rmccartney, Paul as it was so far down...i guessed it might be where they recorded it.

and if you misspell a word, it still searches