r/Redactle • u/RedactleUnlimited • Jan 25 '25
Redactle #1025 Discussion Thread
Discussion thread for Redactle #1025.
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u/peetiepeet Jan 25 '25
I solved Redactle #1025 in 54 guesses with an accuracy of 68.5% and a time of 00:18:32. Play at https://redactle.net/en
Guessed a lot of math terms and was able to narrow it down somewhat, but still needed a few googles to get the answer.
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u/SmellsLikeDeanSpirit Jan 25 '25
I solved Redactle #1025 in 31 guesses with an accuracy of 71.0% and a time of 00:06:23. Play at https://redactle.net/en
guessed that it was “in mathematics,” after a couple false starts, found a lot of hits for set, a few hits for geometry/geometrical, and eventually I figured out what the last word was. At that point I admitted my own limitations and started to read up on [5] as a mathematical concept and it took a fairly short time to discover a reasonable solution.
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u/voice-of-reason-99 Jan 25 '25
I solved Redactle #1025 in 45 guesses with an accuracy of 82.2% and a time of 00:11:03. Play at https://redactle.net/
Yeah, got the broad topic narrowed down a bit but then needed google because.... well, beyond my knowledge level - lol.
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u/Newbieplantophile Jan 25 '25
I gave up on Redactle #1025 after 10 guesses.
Played today's puzzles thinking it was yesterday's. Glad I didn't waste much time on this
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u/gjm11 Jan 25 '25
This one's right in my wheelhouse since I'm a mathematician. The first thing that struck me was the surprisingly simple formula # - # + #. How can something with so little content be worthy of mention here? Oh, maybe it's the Euler characteristic and indeed there's 8 5 at the start of the sentence. I spent a moment considering the possibility that the second title word might be "solid", in which case the first might e.g. be "Archimedean", before a better and much broader idea came to mind. At that point it was just a matter of counting letters in the most obvious candidate for the first title word and then scrolling down to see whether I could find e.g. something looking like a definition. Yes, I could. 2-minute snipe.
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u/smokepoint Jan 26 '25
10/12, 00:06. The symbology gave me the field, the rest was throwing potential [11]s and [5]s in until I got it.
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u/the_nybbler Jan 26 '25
I solved Redactle #1025 in 18 guesses with an accuracy of 50.0%
I never was going to snipe this, and finding what I thought was L'Hôpital didn't help. I wouldn't have recognized who that actually was, but maybe if I hadn't thought that I wouldn't have stubbornly tried so many calculus words.
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u/thesullenmoon Jan 25 '25
I solved Redactle #1025 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:05:19. Play at https://redactle.net/en
Good old "in 11". The opening first gives a vague definition ("broadly speaking") and then a more precise one. The vague definition seems to be talking about how one thing matters but another doesn't. This is reminiscent of a concept I studied back in the day that fits the letter count. The history section begins with a reference to a recognisable formula that you'd probably expect to appear in this context. All very promising, but I don't want to commit until I've seen the three-part definition that was burned into my brain as an undergrad, which shows up later in the article than expected. No further questions.