Redactle 6

[InMySpareTime]

Old thread:

http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4575909-redactle-5

For players of

https://www.redactle.com/#

Keep hints and hint requests to the Redactle Hint thread please, though you can discuss previous days' tactics here.

44, pretty happy I got it without googling, I thought it was going to be one of those I would have no chance with.

@InMySpareTime It was his nationality that gave it away along with the occupation - again a pattern of words in the first sentence. It is a subject I am familiar enough with to know the name (although I am not a huge fan of his work) which obviously helps. I doubt there are many Canadian-born American people that would fit the letter pattern. Last night I read a thread on here about how autistic people recognise patterns that others can't see - I am autistic so I guess it helps.

Didn't manage today's in 2 because it is not my subject, but still with help of Google I got there in 4.

I solved today's Redactle (#160) in 4 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%. Played at www.redactle.com/

I did it in 3 (with google)... it was likely that one of the nationalities was American, as there were a couple of '[].A.' , probably L.A. If so, it had to be the second one because it was 'a [10 letter]-[4 letter, probably born]' ... not 'an'. Tried thinking of what would have the right number of letters for the next something and something. Tried 'designer'.... then architect seemed like it would fit, but I didn't enter it.So, putatively "-born American architect and designer"... I didn't know any of those with the right number of letters so did an exact search for that and got the hit.

But why did you see XXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXX and think "Canadian-American"?
Why not Scottish, or Ghanaian, or Honduran or Japanese etc? I tried a lot of nationalities the right length before getting Canadian. I was lucky with American but Wikipedia is fairly America-centric generally.

I solved today's Redactle (#160) in 79 guesses with an accuracy of 48.10%. Played at www.redactle.com/

@InMySpareTime I think the phrase 'Canadian-born American' is fairly unique due to their status as 'North Americans' and like you say, Wikipedia is very America-centric.

I solved today's Redactle (#160) in 135 guesses with an accuracy of 60.00%. Played at www.redactle.com/

I solved today's Redactle (#160) in 145 guesses with an accuracy of 51.03%. Played at www.redactle.com/

I solved today's Redactle (#160) in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 66.67%. Played at www.redactle.com/

Lucky second guess (although I had spotted a big clue in text) gave me the first word.

The first word was the only one of 14 characters I could think of that fitted with the clue I spotted. There are other clues in the text to point towards the second.

I solved today's Redactle (#160) in 57 guesses with an accuracy of 66.67%. Played at www.redactle.com/

Because I play on the laptop, I can't see how many characters there are in each word - I can only guess because of the length of the black rectangle. I'm at an unfair advantage, clearly

I solved today's Redactle (#161) in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%. Played at www.redactle.com/

I was third to get it today!

I made a meal of that!

I solved today's Redactle (#161) in 162 guesses with an accuracy of 34.57%. Played at www.redactle.com/

I solved today's Redactle (#161) in 14 guesses with an accuracy of 85.71%.

Ha!

I solved today's Redactle (#161) in 32 guesses with an accuracy of 40.63%. Played at www.redactle.com/

I solved today's Redactle (#161) in 32 guesses with an accuracy of 68.75%. Played at www.redactle.com/

I solved today's Redactle (#161) in 8 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%. Played at www.redactle.com/

I solved today's Redactle (#161) in 1 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%. Played at www.redactle.com/

I solved today's Redactle (#161) in 70 guesses with an accuracy of 48.57%. Played at www.redactle.com/

That was challenging!

a clue upthread, which was good for me
I solved today's Redactle (#161) in 34 guesses with an accuracy of 35.29%. Played at www.redactle.com/

I solved today's Redactle (#161) in 127 guesses with an accuracy of 41.73%. Played at www.redactle.com/

I solved today's Redactle (#161) in 49 guesses with an accuracy of 48.98%. Played at www.redactle.com/

I enjoyed today's! No need to Google at all

I solved today's Redactle (#161) in 81 guesses with an accuracy of 50.62%. Played at www.redactle.com/

I did need to Google this one!

I solved today's Redactle (#162) in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%. Played at www.redactle.com/

I solved today's Redactle (#162) in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%. Played at www.redactle.com/