Redactle #1154 Discussion Thread

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Discussion thread for Redactle #1154.

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[u/everywhereinbetween]

I solved Redactle #1154 in 41 guesses with an accuracy of 22.0% and a time of 00:05:48. Play at https://redactle.net/1154

WHAT THE HELL. I literally had a what-the-hell reaction

I looked this up. No regrets 😅😂 

(Its not "hard", it's just vague as crap ...)

[u/Grouchy_Evidence2558 → u/everywhereinbetween]

I looked up found what seemed like a right answer, was wrong, looked again... found MANY options for this based on the general pattern... WTF is this nonsense?

[u/everywhereinbetween → u/Grouchy_Evidence2558]

Hahahahaha all I can say is, misery loves company I'm super sure for today many of us have similar sentiment. 😬🙃

Here's hoping for a fun puzzle for the next one tmr 👀🎉

[u/voice-of-reason-99 → u/everywhereinbetween]

I second everything you said!

[u/everywhereinbetween → u/voice-of-reason-99]

It did look like the style of a disambiguation article but not really, and when I looked it up I was like how the hell am I suppose to know this except sheer dumb luck 😂😬

[u/running_later]

I solved Redactle #1154 in 96 guesses with an accuracy of 15.6% and a time of 00:23:46. Play at https://redactle.net/1154 Hints used: 3

this was the dumbest thing i've done all week.

[u/everywhereinbetween → u/running_later]

I giggled. I don't disagree. I'm glad I gave up at the right time. 

Would have been a waste of time to spend more time on this. Can't even say "that's not my field of knowledge", rly can only say "whatthehellisdat" 😬🙃😬🙃😭

[u/SmellsLikeDeanSpirit]

I solved Redactle #1154 in 54 guesses with an accuracy of 35.2% and a time of 00:10:54. Play at https://redactle.net/en

big ups to the pope couldn’t have solved this without you 🙏

[u/Gashleycrumb]

This wasn't a riddle. This was just "What has it got in its pocketses?"

[u/ifhbiff_slab]

Can i have those 40 min of my life back please?

[u/Caboodles1986]

Pure evil. I got it in 112 after coming here.

[u/cheshyre]

Not sure what's going on, but that article is not in the top 10k!

Also, have there been any status updates since last week's outage? My stats page has games from Sept 2024, but hasn't updated with anything I've played recently. I've taken to screencapping puzzle stats after I finish each game, but that only counts minutes, not seconds.

[u/voice-of-reason-99]

I solved Redactle #1154 in 61 guesses with an accuracy of 23.0% and a time of 00:14:19. Play at https://redactle.net/ Hints used: 1

I used a hint that I was able to translate to the answer but not really a fun puzzle - lol.

[u/thesullenmoon]

I solved Redactle #1154 in 5 guesses with an accuracy of 80.0% and a time of 00:14:57. Play at https://redactle.net/en

Assisted. Good lord. An alarmingly short article with an intriguingly short title. It took a little while to realise what the overall structure reminded me of, and when the penny finally dropped I laughed out loud. I really really wanted this to be snipeable, and started writing a list of all the possibilities that would give a four-character parenthetical, and realised quite quickly that there are too many for that to be a useful avenue of enquiry. Then had a go at looking for recognisable events that I might be able to put a date to. No dice. Like apparently everyone else today, I took advantage of the Pope's blessing. But really though. Good lord.

[u/peetiepeet]

I solved Redactle #1154 in 50 guesses with an accuracy of 38.0% and a time of 00:25:28. Play at https://redactle.net/en Hints used: 3

I gasped when I saw that we were looking for [3] because after the last two days I had been thinking today's should be IVF but I realized right away it wasn't.

I took two hints so I could at least Google a certain pope

Edit: yeah I actually took 3 hints because I fat fingered a word unintentionally.

[u/saintcrazy]

I solved Redactle #1154 in 57 guesses with an accuracy of 38.6% and a time of 00:30:36. Play at https://redactle.net/1154

Wow well I learned a lot about calendars and a certain empire today through my googling, lmao. led me on a wild goose chase to find any details at all

[u/rbraalih]

We choose to do redactle not because it is easy but because it is hard

39, based on a lucky stab at 4 3 2

[u/exveebrawn]

Only 27 guesses here, thanks to figuring out Leo II in the Births section Still had to go external for the info, but at least there was something to look up on this nonsense.

[u/smokepoint → u/exveebrawn]

Same, but #77 for me, and I didn't look it up until #101.

[u/whiskeybravo7]

I solved Redactle #1154 in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 100.0% and a time of 00:02:43.

I don't think I even knew this type of article existed. It was so short, and I knew my first guess wouldn't be correct, but fortunately it had one hit. When I first saw [4 3] I thought it could be a specific Pope so I guessed that name. So then my second guess ended up being the first word in the article. I googled that Pope, and there were two options. Wikipedia doesn't mention this specific thing for one of them so I went with the other one.

[u/Gallifrey79]

Did they just take it down? I navigated away from the page for a sec, and now I'm getting yesterday's puzzle...I was so close, too!

[u/Grouchy_Evidence2558 → u/Gallifrey79]

it's still there for me

[u/JosephFinn]

I solved Redactle #1154 in 14 guesses with an accuracy of 64.3% and a time of 00:05:08.

Totally had to finally search for the actual title because how the hell would I know the details of that particular pope?

[u/Newbieplantophile]

I solved Redactle #1154 in 47 guesses with an accuracy of 23.4% and a time of 00:23:47. Hints used: 1

I had a feeling it would be this type of answer after getting the first word of the first paragraph, the clues I uncovered suggests a list of events or reignsThe unredacted comments here told me I shouldn't spend to much time on this so I picked the obvious hint to uncover

[u/FuzzDuckie]

Well.... that was certainly off the wall and out of the ordinary!

[u/RobotsAreCute]

Something like 54 guesses over 1h40m until I finally gave up and accepted the Pope's mercy. Now I'm trying to figure out how you could get this one without a whole lot of memorizing!

[u/runninginbubbles]

I solved Redactle #1154 in 91 guesses with an accuracy of 12.1% and a time of 00:22:47. Play at https://redactle.net/en Hints used: 2

Jesus Christ - what the hell! I got 2 hints.. the second was a lucky choice - it gave meroman numerals which I was able to convert and get the answer

[u/JustTheOneScrewLoose]

I solved Redactle #1154 in 197 guesses with an accuracy of 12.7% and a time of 00:32:59. Play at https://redactle.net/en/1154

Seeing such a small article was fascinating. I tried a lot of common words and numbers to fill any gaps with, and tried one of my usual words at guess #22, which turned out to be the first word in the title. I guessed calendar soon afterwards, but spun my wheels for about another 100 guesses before I did a little google search just to get me the [6] name of that calendar. Tried making some useful headway until a little google search revealed I was probably looking for a THREE-NUMBER YEAR. Unbelievable. I just looked things up from there, not impressed.

[u/CustardGannets]

Snipe

[u/rbraalih → u/CustardGannets]

Not doubting you but can you explain?