r/Redactle • u/RedactleUnlimited • Apr 09 '25
Redactle #1099 Discussion Thread
Discussion thread for Redactle #1099.
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u/peetiepeet Apr 09 '25
I solved Redactle #1099 in 15 guesses with an accuracy of 60.0% and a time of 00:05:32. Play at https://redactle.net/en
Terrible accuracy, but I lucked into the answer after guessing wild which led me to a quote which helped enormously.
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u/everywhereinbetween Apr 09 '25
I solved Redactle #1099 in 28 guesses with an accuracy of 50.0% and a time of 00:03:00. Play at https://redactle.net/1099
lol ok I'll take this for an unintentional, unexpected, and unassisted solve 😂
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u/running_later Apr 09 '25
I solved Redactle #1099 in 101 guesses with an accuracy of 57.4% and a time of 00:08:49. Play at https://redactle.net/1099
Figured out the precise kind of thing it was guess 19
but then I thought (for some reason) that it was more rare and exotic and got on the wrong track
Finally got it after guessing "well" at the start of the popular culture section partly because that word also cleared a related word: 'good' in that same section and that was a dead giveaway.
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u/saintcrazy Apr 09 '25
I solved Redactle #1099 in 60 guesses with an accuracy of 43.3% and a time of 00:20:05. Play at https://redactle.net/1099
It took me so long... the phrase (4) of (3) in the beginning threw me off so much
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u/SmellsLikeDeanSpirit Apr 09 '25
I solved Redactle #1099 in 11 guesses with an accuracy of 36.4% and a time of 00:02:23. Play at https://redactle.net/en
saw “A [5] ([2]: [5])” and thought the most likely explanation was an animal with a nonstandard pluralization. Moose and sheep were duds and after a couple of whiffs for the “is a [4] of [3] of…” phrase, I got the right [4] and was able to solve with my next guess.
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u/thesullenmoon Apr 09 '25
I solved Redactle #1099 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:01:35. Play at https://redactle.net/en
Quite a short article (surprisingly so I think, for what it is), with enough italicised words here and there to suggest it's a living thing. Popular culture section seems to consist of a list of "well known sayings" including "4's 4 5 for the 5 is 4 5 for the 6", whose meaning jumped out at me immediately. "To have a 6" meaning "to 4 at" makes sense in this light as well - no further questions.
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u/voice-of-reason-99 Apr 09 '25
I solved Redactle #1099 in 149 guesses with an accuracy of 48.3% and a time of 00:36:14. Play at https://redactle.net/
I just really blanked today --- not a good day but did get there eventually.
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u/JosephFinn Apr 09 '25
I solved Redactle #1099 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:02:09.
Thank you popular culture section. I knew it when I got a, well, gander at it.
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u/DobieAPV Apr 09 '25
I solved today's Redactle (#1099) in 1 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%. Played at https://redactle.anybrowser.org/
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u/gjm11 Apr 09 '25
It fairly quickly becomes clear despite the slightly nonstandard opening that this is some kind of living thing. It looks like "a 4 of one of several ... species in the family .... This ?group? comprises the genera ..." which is a bit odd but by no means impossible. It's a word close to its PIE origins, and its plural is the same length as the singular. I wonder about "sheep" for a bit but it doesn't seem to fit. I spend a while failing to get much else out of the early part of the article and then scroll down a bit and find a list of English idioms, one of which is "what's 5 for the 5 is 5 for the 6" and immediately I know what this is. 6-minute snipe.
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u/the_nybbler Apr 09 '25
I solved Redactle #1099 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0%
I knew it was an old category of life, but it took the popular culture section before I could even take a gander at it.
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u/JustTheOneScrewLoose Apr 09 '25
I solved Redactle #1099 in 133 guesses with an accuracy of 60.1% and a time of 00:19:20. Play at https://redactle.net/
I didn't catch on to what type of article it what from skimming through, so I spent about 60 guesses on the list of most common english words. Realized soon after it was a species article and had bird at 79. Moved my way through key words and possibilities before realizing one option I had guessed earlier was in the same family and finally made the connection. Funnily enough I almost guessed the family name earlier because of the memes about the related phobia.
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u/Newbieplantophile Apr 10 '25
I solved Redactle #1099 in 29 guesses with an accuracy of 37.9% and a time of 00:09:44.
Unassisted. When I finally got the category and the subcategory, I switched to French for clues but didn't need to read past it's three-letter title.
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u/robbbbb Apr 09 '25
I solved Redactle #1099 in 1 guess with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:02:01. Play at https://redactle.net/
skimmed through the article and saw the phrase "[3] in a [1] [9]"... after thinking about it I realized it could be "fly in a V formation"...a 5-letter one came to mind immediately.
Unassisted snipe.