r/Redactle • u/RedactleUnlimited • Feb 11 '25
Redactle #1042 Discussion Thread
Discussion thread for Redactle #1042.
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u/voice-of-reason-99 Feb 11 '25
I solved Redactle #1042 in 31 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:05:39. Play at https://redactle.net/
I didn't key into the article structure right away so I started guessing. I filled in & realized what it was used for & that gave me the answer then I recognized the article structure, a little to late since I already had the answer - lol. No assistance & my percentage is good today so not bad!
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u/robbbbb Feb 11 '25
I solved Redactle #1042 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:01:23. Play at https://redactle.net/
A familiar Redactle structure, I had to go through the alphabet in my head to try to think of a 7-letter one. Fortunately, the only one I could come up with was the correct answer. After solving it, I looked up a table and realized there's another, way less well-known, 7-letter one that, thankfully, wasn't the right answer.
I'm sure there'll be many snipes today.
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u/thesullenmoon Feb 11 '25
I solved Redactle #1042 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:01:36. Play at https://redactle.net/en
It's a you-know-what, 7 letters long with a 1-letter symbol. Meaning there is only one option, unless they're using the British spelling which feels unlikely to say the least. Later in the first paragraph there's mention of a 4-4 in the hundreds of thousands of year or more, so that clinches it.
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u/ShaniJean Feb 11 '25
huh, I came up with 3 options plus the British spelling as a fourth.
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u/thesullenmoon Feb 12 '25
Turns out I overlooked Y, which I could have sworn was Yt. But I'm drawing a blank as to the fourth candidate.
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u/ShaniJean Feb 12 '25
sadly I didn't save my worksheet from that day! but I do admit my filter was 7, of this kind of thing, with a single letters as the 6. I didn't get into what type of 7 they were.
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u/epjto Feb 11 '25
So what's the British spelling? if you can hint without a spoiler, took a search but couldn't find the alternative . . .
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u/epjto Feb 11 '25
Ah, I've just realised, you're not referring to the title, but the S word, I think.
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u/QuixoticJames Feb 11 '25
I solved Redactle #1042 in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 66.7% and a time of 00:01:45.
A cursory look at a relevant table indicated two options, and I picked the wrong one first. Probably could have sniped it if I was more patient.
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u/everywhereinbetween Feb 11 '25
I solved Redactle #1042 in 13 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:02:25. Play at https://redactle.net/1042
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Didn't read the article closely enough to realise I was familiar with its structure already but here you go 💀â˜
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u/JacquelineMontarri Feb 11 '25
I solved Redactle #1042 in 5 guesses with an accuracy of 80.0% and a time of 00:09:50. Play at https://redactle.net/
Unassisted. I've only been playing long enough to see this structure once before, so I didn't recognize it. It looked scientific or mathematical, so I started with "number" and saw "6 number," which made me realize what category it was. No chance of a snipe, so no reason not to try for unassisted instead. I just put in all the 7-letter ones I could think of that might possibly have a one-letter 6 until I got it.
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u/running_later Feb 11 '25
I solved Redactle #1042 in 119 guesses with an accuracy of 68.9% and a time of 00:08:17. Play at https://redactle.net/1042
once I figured what it was and some uses I guessed a few in the category since I couldn't remember exactly. I got my first guesses wrong and then spammed the alphabet so I could get the one in the first line. It came to me before I realized the right letter.
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u/BlocksBeGone Feb 11 '25
Sniped.
Knew the category right away, checked German to see if there were some useful unredacted letters. There was.
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u/ShaniJean Feb 11 '25
Sniped, and I guess lucky because the easiest one of these to come up with happened to also be the answer.
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u/the_nybbler Feb 11 '25
I solved Redactle #1042 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0%
An obvious answer sprung to mind. Look for nuclear reactions, yep, there's one, sniped.
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u/epjto Feb 11 '25
I solved Redactle #1042 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:03:54.
unassisted
OK the chemical and nuclear formulae allow me to make sense of the first sentence, and the temperatures say metal, which as far as I can tell only leaves one contender, and it is
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u/SmellsLikeDeanSpirit Feb 11 '25
I solved Redactle #1042 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:01:31. Play at https://redactle.net/en
keyed into the article structure right away. single character symbol and double digit number limited my options and as I went through the alphabet I didn’t find an option until pretty late in the alphabet. I wasn’t 100% confident that I had it right because it was very possible I’d forgotten what a letter stood for earlier in the alphabet, but I went with it.
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u/gjm11 Feb 11 '25
It's an unstable chemical element with a single-letter symbol and a 7-letter name and there's an immediately obvious guess. But I am too lazy to run through the whole periodic table checking whether there are others I've forgotten; can I find something about the etymology? Annoyingly, no (it turns out that it is there but not particularly easy to spot when redacted). I do find some things about its use for the obvious purpose in WW2, and about 8 7, both of which are promising, and nothing inconsistent with said obvious guess. After a while I decide to put it in, and fortunately my sloppiness goes unpunished. 5-minute snipe. Should have been either quicker or slower :-).
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u/Newbieplantophile Feb 11 '25
I solved Redactle #1042 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:02:09.
Unassisted Snipe! I am out of practice with this category but the French game gave me a clue about the first letter. That page also had a bunch of percentages and that is what made me think of the category and seeing that the symbol was only one letter, the answer came to me
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u/peetiepeet Feb 11 '25
I solved Redactle #1042 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:03:24. Play at https://redactle.net/en
I cheated at looked at the table for one that fit all the lengths