Redactle - THE HINTS THREAD

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Given how difficult it is to offer hints for redactle, without giving it away/being too obvious, this is a specific thread for hints.

Doesn't mean that they should give the game away, but it just stops other players seeing the hint every time they access the main thread.

So from now on, just keep your stats and general comments on the main thread and come here for any hints!

Why would it be cheating?! You can't possibly know everything about every subject - you're bound to need help sometimes! As far as I'm concerned, if I've guessed enough to work out what the subject is, therefore I know what to Google, I'm winning!

I did a whole lotta googling with today's!

Any help today? Can I say what I know so far or is that a spoiler for other people?

I would really appreciate some help, please!

Think of the title of an Agatha Christie novel, connected to her second husband's job.

Hmm, do you have any thing else?

Have you any phrases that you can Google? What sort of themes do you think you have uncovered?

Have you got the right geographical area?

I have ancient Egypt. That is all.

You need to head further East.

@MrsElm

Here's a slightly cryptic hint:

When the sun

Hits a tribe

Like a big pizza pie

I've also got a bit of mileage from the age a type of medal but I'm still stuck

Look at my first clue again - title begins with 'Murder' - that'll get you the right area.

I'm sorry but I am still stumped!

That's amore!

I'm guessing a lot of people won't have come across this and will need to Google, am I right?

I'm not even sure what to Google!

What helped me was reading through the words that are given to start with in the article - there is at least one " ..Near...." Near with a capital N (not at the beginning of a sentence) is a huge clue. That was my starting point.

Admittedly it is not a common word, but a bit of Googling once you have the general area should get you there.

It tool me 633 guesses, so quit a lot of those were redundant auto-plurals

It probably took me 600 of them to work out what to start googling at all, but it was discoverable once I'd worked out what to research!!

I don't usually come on this thread, so I'm not sure how blatantly to hint!!

If ever there was an illustration of how you can't do these things without google, today's is it.

I'm annoyed that I got the singular of the word in question as guess no. 107, but didn't think of adding an s till no. 212. Doh.

I'm giving up now. I will check back tomorrow to see what the answer is.

There's a suggestion on the main thread which is something of a cheat but quite amusing that it works!

@MrsElm you're literally halfway there already from my clue. Read it again and see how it differs from the song.

@MrsElm sing the song clue again but rhyme the end with tights!

But not Hittites 🤔