Redactle 4

[InMySpareTime]

Time for a new thread.

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I solved today's Redactle (#65) in 147 guesses with an accuracy of 49.66%. Played at www.redactle.com/

Phew, that was a marathon! Took me ages to get any sort of handle on it, then googling definitely required. Interesting though.

I solved today's Redactle (#65) in 33 guesses with an accuracy of 66.67%. Played at www.redactle.com/

That was better than yesterday's.

@Fifthtimelucky I am in the exact same boat!

Well I gave up altogether and looked it up, so it goes down as another failure.

I had never heard of the word so would never have got it. It would need a lot more specialised knowledge of the subject than I (and I imagine most people) have.

I solved today's Redactle (#65) in 193 guesses with an accuracy of 50.78%. Played at www.redactle.com/

Obviously a lot of googling there but v interesting!

I don't see it as a failure if you get to the point where you can find something you've simply never heard of before, especially if it's something not covered by gcse level education or likely come up in other sources of general knowledge (documentaries, the media etc). Most of us have learned something on this one, I think.

I managed to get one phrase and then put that into Google which gave me the title.
A word I had never heard of.

217 guesses and 47%

Does anyone read the whole article after solving the word?

@Glitterbiscuits I do, but then I also look up the Wikipedia page for Pedantle as it only shows part of the article and I want the whole thing.

I agree. I think googling around a subject to find some of the correct terms is a bit of an art in itself.

I enjoy the whole process of redactle and pedantle much more than semantle and cemantle.

There's a hell of a difference between googling, for example, "what is the unit of pressure" after working out thats what the answer is, or the spelling of someone's name... to just googling "what is todays Redactle answer".

Whenever this conversation comes up, there are people who claim to never Google, but many see it as a problem solving exercise and look for clues

I'd have been clueless without Google today but I try to leave it as a last resort.

I'm going to read all the articles from now on. My menopausal brain needs the exercise!

I solved today's Redactle (#65) in 95 guesses with an accuracy of 54.74%. Played at www.redactle.com/

Like others, once I’d got the theme I had to Google a bit. Not something that I know anything about.

I'm giving up on this one as my knowledge of the specifics is very poor. I cba to keep googling to get the answer.

I solved today's Redactle (#66) in 15 guesses with an accuracy of 46.67%. Played at www.redactle.com/

I solved today's Redactle (#66) in 76 guesses with an accuracy of 55.26%. Played at www.redactle.com/

I solved today's Redactle (#65) in 104 guesses with an accuracy of 53.85%. Played at www.redactle.com/

Had to do a lot of Googling to get there.

Again had to Google the first word as had the second early on but don’t know much about this area.
I solved today's Redactle (#66) in 53 guesses with an accuracy of 39.62%. Played at www.redactle.com/

I solved today's Redactle (#66) in 33 guesses with an accuracy of 48.48%. Played at www.redactle.com/

Happy with this today. Thought the first word looked a bit short to be this so tried other things first. Should have trusted myself!

I solved today's Redactle (#66) in 11 guesses with an accuracy of 45.45%. Played at www.redactle.com/

I solved today's Redactle (#66) in 19 guesses with an accuracy of 47.37%. Played at www.redactle.com/

Probably should have got that quicker given my degree

Gah! 125 guesses at 42.40% - not my finest day.

What was yesterday’s? I got to about 350 guesses and give up.

Yesterday's was Shaktism.

I solved today's Redactle (#66) in 169 guesses with an accuracy of 41.42%. Played at www.redactle.com/

Took me a long time to get any sort of a handle on that. Googled at the end to get the first word which I must have learned a long time ago but forgotten up until now