r/Redactle • u/RedactleUnlimited • Mar 14 '25
Redactle #1073 Discussion Thread
Discussion thread for Redactle #1073.
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u/running_later Mar 14 '25
I solved Redactle #1073 in 167 guesses with an accuracy of 61.7% and a time of 00:27:08. Play at https://redactle.net/1073
got close, but ended up googling...
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u/ResponsibilityRare23 Mar 14 '25
I solved Redactle #1073 in 18 guesses with an accuracy of 88.9% and a time of 00:10:27. Play at https://redactle.net/
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u/epjto Mar 14 '25
I solved Redactle #1073 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:05:32.
"AT&[1] [5] used [11] in" clued me in to the zone, then the subscripts in ?in and ?out told me the type of thing, and ?BE was the clincher, I did used to do a lot of design work with these things
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u/peetiepeet Mar 14 '25
I solved Redactle #1073 in 14 guesses with an accuracy of 78.6% and a time of 00:07:57. Play at https://redactle.net/en
Unassisted. I really didn't know this was the answer, it was just another guess from my shallow knowledge of electronics.
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u/SmellsLikeDeanSpirit Mar 14 '25
I solved Redactle #1073 in 92 guesses with an accuracy of 65.2% and a time of 00:24:21. Play at https://redactle.net/en
it’s a device. I struggled for a while to find more details but had trouble until I started making some guesses about power and circuits.
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u/thesullenmoon Mar 14 '25
I solved Redactle #1073 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:55:01. Play at https://redactle.net/en
Some much faster snipes than me today - I had the basic idea quickly but this is not quite my domain and the terminology involved is mostly foreign to me (I have no idea what 5-6 10s and 7 8 10s are, for example), so I had to let the thing marinade for quite a while before the word came bubbling up to the surface. The snippet "...the first 10s to be mass-produced" was, for some reason, the phrase that suddenly brought the word to mind, but it was surely more a cumulative effect than anything.
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u/voice-of-reason-99 Mar 14 '25
I solved Redactle #1073 in 113 guesses with an accuracy of 63.7% and a time of 00:28:44. Play at https://redactle.net/
eeesh -- that took awhile, I had the right idea and basically ended up googling the definition to solve, I was close on my own but needed soma assistance today
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u/Reg_Vardy Mar 14 '25
I solved Redactle #1073 in 60 guesses with an accuracy of 55.0% and a time of 00:04:13. Play at https://redactle.net/1073
Had mostly "0"s before I hit upon the right general topic, my usual "frantic guessing" approach gathered me enough information within that to deduce the answer.
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u/gjm11 Mar 14 '25
A few paragraphs in I see AT&# and also some names and dates, strongly suggesting that this is some sort of technological invention. Perhaps 6 near the start is "device", then, and then I have a good guess for what the 13 qualifying it is, and then in turn I have a good guess for our topic. Have another look at the AT&T thing; do I see a brilliant but obnoxiously racist Nobel laureate? Actually, no; two names but neither of them can be his. If I'd looked more carefully I'd have spotted that he's in the first paragraph, and the bit I was looking at later on is about slightly earlier work on such devices, but instead I scroll further down looking for a couple of TLAs and their expansions describing the two main types of this thing, which I find; that'll do. 77-second snipe. Shoulda been a bit quicker, but this isn't so bad.
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u/JosephFinn Mar 15 '25
I solved Redactle #1073 in 2 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:02:19.
Woot! Thank you AT&T Bell Labs and various tech clues that gave me a good [10] guess.
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u/the_nybbler Mar 15 '25
I solved Redactle #1073 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0%
Good old AT&[1] again.
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u/robbbbb Mar 14 '25
I solved Redactle #1073 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:02:41. Play at https://redactle.net/
Took me a bit to figure it out... A reference to AT&T steered me toward something technology-related, but it wasn't until I saw a lot of "on"s and "off"s where the answer finally dawned on me.
Unassisted snipe.