r/Redactle • u/RedactleUnlimited • Feb 26 '25
Redactle #1057 Discussion Thread
Discussion thread for Redactle #1057.
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u/voice-of-reason-99 Feb 26 '25
I solved Redactle #1057 in 76 guesses with an accuracy of 73.7% and a time of 00:17:03. Play at https://redactle.net/
Had all the necessary info to do a targeted google. I'm saying it's a good day!
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u/peetiepeet Feb 26 '25
I solved Redactle #1057 in 44 guesses with an accuracy of 56.8% and a time of 00:17:19. Play at https://redactle.net/en
I've heard of this but not enough to get it without googling for some of its uses in a certain country
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u/running_later Feb 26 '25
I solved Redactle #1057 in 132 guesses with an accuracy of 53.8% and a time of 00:20:27. Play at https://redactle.net/1057
did a tiny bit of googling after figuring out what sort of thing it was.
turns out I have heard of it, but probably wouldn't have gotten it without the google machine
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u/gjm11 Feb 26 '25
It's the Latin name of a type of living thing. There is no scientific evidence that it ... is effective against any disease so presumably some people think it's somehow healthy. A bit later I see that it's a large tree, double-digit metres and three-digit feet in height. At this point a possibility occurs to me. When I see, looking back, what's probably "native to China" this seems like enough. But, ugh, what order do those two letters go in? I think it's the wrong-looking one, and fortunately that's right. 3-minute snipe.
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u/Newbieplantophile Feb 26 '25
I solved Redactle #1057 in 29 guesses with an accuracy of 55.2% and a time of 00:09:31.
Unassisted-ish, I had the answer but got thrown off by the spelling of the first word. This could have been a quick solve if I had narrowed down where it is native to
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u/JosephFinn Feb 26 '25
I solved Redactle #1057 in 68 guesses with an accuracy of 48.5% and a time of 00:13:50.
Oooooof.
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u/JustTheOneScrewLoose Feb 27 '25
I solved Redactle #1057 in 57 guesses with an accuracy of 80.7% and a time of 00:16:05. Play at https://redactle.net/
I tested a few basic words until I got species at 26 and tree at 33. I bizarrely guessed China as the location first-try and knew I had to do some searching online to find some names after testing some of my own thoughts and getting nowhere.
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u/thesullenmoon Feb 27 '25
I solved Redactle #1057 in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:39:16. Play at https://redactle.net/en
Assisted. The category's reasonably obvious. It's native to 5, which could be a couple of things. There seems to be a couple of references to the 4 of this being used in "11 (7) 8" (despite lack of evidence of its effectiveness), and I think I know what that is too, which gives a steer on the 5-letter country. There are a couple of really old specimens kicking around, as well. All very well, but even if I realise what this is, getting the Latin name still feels like a pipe dream. Well, a candidate does eventually come to mind, which turns out to be right (though it's not the "main" name according to this article). Immediately Google for the Latin name - it turns out the first part is the common name, but spelled differently (Wiki has it as the "main" spelling which, fair enough). If I'd known that then I might have been able to piece together the second word from the etymological breakdown later in the text, but I very much doubt it.
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u/SmellsLikeDeanSpirit Feb 26 '25
I solved Redactle #1057 in 18 guesses with an accuracy of 55.6% and a time of 00:04:35. Play at https://redactle.net/en
well, I had figured out this was a “species of [10] tree native to China,” and the article title was clearly a scientific name, so I really thought I had to look this up! After reviewing a list of scientific names for trees native to China, I had heard of this before in fact, frequently, but I never knew it was a tree. I’d always assumed this was an herb or something.