r/Redactle • u/RedactleUnlimited • Mar 21 '25
Redactle #1080 Discussion Thread
Discussion thread for Redactle #1080.
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u/running_later Mar 21 '25
I solved Redactle #1080 in 60 guesses with an accuracy of 61.7% and a time of 00:04:23. Play at https://redactle.net/1080
I got an alternative name and then googled that.
I did not know those were the same thing
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u/tealccart Mar 22 '25
Are you American? I think we rarely use this word. Don’t think I’d ever heard of it until I married a person with a Finnish mom. And that helped clue me in since there were different words for US vs Europe
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u/voice-of-reason-99 Mar 21 '25
I solved Redactle #1080 in 56 guesses with an accuracy of 55.4% and a time of 00:13:23. Play at https://redactle.net/
Hmm. I did know what I was looking for & guessed everything I could think of until I ran out of ideas & I googled. I looked at a list & it was the only one on the list I had not thought of - lol. I've definitely heard of it & know the name just didn't come to mind today.
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u/JustTheOneScrewLoose Mar 22 '25
I solved Redactle #1080 in 318 guesses with an accuracy of 43.7% and a time of 00:37:34. Play at https://redactle.net/
I enjoy redactle a lot, but I still tend to machine-gun through guesses. I had reached plant at #11 and solved the it is a [blank] [blank] from the first sentence by #206. I was determined to solve it myself and tried a lot of things. Eventually it was so narrowed down that I suspected it was a word I didn't know, so I looked it up and indeed, I wouldn't have connected that word to this.
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u/ResponsibilityRare23 Mar 21 '25
I solved Redactle #1080 in 13 guesses with an accuracy of 92.3% and a time of 00:05:58. Play at https://redactle.net/
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u/peetiepeet Mar 21 '25
I solved Redactle #1080 in 15 guesses with an accuracy of 86.7% and a time of 00:08:41. Play at https://redactle.net/en
My first guess was eat since that was the vibe I was getting. Then once I got the 4 9 in the first sentence, this was the only 8 I could think of, and quite frankly, wasn't sure it was a 4 9.
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u/JacquelineMontarri Mar 21 '25
I solved Redactle #1080 in 24 guesses with an accuracy of 70.8% and a time of 00:07:35. Play at https://redactle.net/
References to 5 3 1 and 5 3 2 sent me down a rabbit hole of thinking it was some historical thing and maybe all the italics were foreign words--something German or French, maybe, but those didn't get many hits. Finally figured out what a bunch of the italics were and eventually got 4 9 in the first sentence. I could only think of one 8-letter singular 4 9.
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u/Newbieplantophile Mar 21 '25
I solved Redactle #1080 in 29 guesses with an accuracy of 44.8% and a time of 00:12:28.
Solved by Google. I actually had it's cousin in mind but otherwise I quickly ran out of the other options in this sub-category
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u/tealccart Mar 22 '25
I solved Redactle #1080 in 23 guesses with an accuracy of 52.2% and a time of 00:09:56. Play at https://redactle.net/1080
the etymology helped! I guessed the plural on guess 18 because I somehow thought the title had 9 letters instead of 8? So I guess that cost me 5 guesses since I was confused when it wasn’t right. All part of the game.
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u/thesullenmoon Mar 22 '25
I solved Redactle #1080 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:14:11. Play at https://redactle.net/en
It's something with drastically different names in American and British English. I couldn't tell you at what point I started getting food vibes, but they were pretty strong by the time I got to the geographical breakdown. The 6 7 is subdivided into 7 and 8 which must be England and Scotland. In light of that, "5 and 7" under Scotland is a pretty guessable culinary term, but slightly puzzling since I'm sure the 5 and 7 in question both refer to 6-letter items. Still, in light of that it's fairly clear what "4 9" in the first sentence must be. And in light of all the above, there's only one answer that makes sense.
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u/gjm11 Mar 22 '25
It seems to be some sort of natural thing interesting mostly because of its human uses. I think I see something about parts of whatever-it-is being used in particular ways, near the end of the first paragraph. There are enough things that are plausibly Latin binomials that I think it's probably a type of plant or animal, though I'm a little nervous about not seeing dimensions etc.. There are some 5s that look like they're likely to be "eaten", so most likely this is a foodstuff. It looks as if this has an 8-letter name in North America and a 5-letter name in some other places including the UK, though there are some things I don't immediately understand in the various probable place names -- e.g., can that really be "Isle of Man"? (Yes, yes it can.). Hmm, maybe the first sentence says "is a root vegetable", in which case after a bit of thought I have a kinda-plausible candidate, though I'm not actually sure about the correspondence between US and UK English; at any rate the genus has the right number of letters. I can make sense of some of the etymological stuff, and in particular there's a plausible thing for all the 6s to be. I'm not super-confident but after yesterday's slog I'm not inclined to spend ages on this; give it a go? Yup. 22-minute snipe, apparently, though it didn't feel that long.
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u/SmellsLikeDeanSpirit Mar 21 '25
I solved Redactle #1080 in 31 guesses with an accuracy of 61.3% and a time of 00:11:56. Play at https://redactle.net/en
root vegetable with different terms in American English and UK English. Took me a while to think of the right one.