@Vastra I’ve also played 11 games and am (usually, so far!) getting the answer in a low number of guesses. But I reckon I’m taking as long to reach the answer as players who use one or two hundred plus guesses. I spend a lot of time thinking and enter very few words.
My strategy is to ‘read’ the whole article through a few times, until I get a good idea of the type of subject, eg famous person, geography, scientific - you can tell this by the tense used, word length and sentence structure. Then in most articles there is a clear clue, today there was an unusually capitalised word which gave away the next word, thus the subject area. Sometimes there is a quote which, with just one or two more words added, becomes recognisable.
I very rarely use my guesses on filler words like they, when, typically. I just fill these in my my head and read the article as if they were already filled in.
I have really poor general knowledge so when (about half the time) I’ve realised it’s a subject I know almost nothing about I’ll start doing google research - by this point I’m close enough to the title for googling to take just a couple of minutes.
I’d say I approach Redactle as a puzzle rather than a general knowledge test.