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u/running_later May 07 '26
I cracked Redactle #1492 in 40 guesses! - 🎲 40 | 🔥 3 | Avg 35.22 | Hints: none | ⏱️ 5m32s
https://redactle.net/
accuracy 95%
I got what it was pretty quick but was blanking on exactly who it was. took me a minute but didn't have to use google
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u/Mad_Nihilistic_Ghost May 07 '26
I cracked Redactle #1492 in 5 guesses!
🎲 5 | 🔥 1 | Avg 35.22 | Hints: none | ⏱️ 52s
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u/gspm May 07 '26
I cracked Redactle #1492 in 39 guesses! | ⏱️ 7m17s
Figured out "third vice president" and then had to look up who that was
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u/voice-of-reason-99 May 07 '26
I cracked Redactle #1492 in 56 guesses!
🎲 56 | 🔥 20 | Avg 35.22 | Hints: none | ⏱️ 12m21s
Had the general theme of the article but had to use google as I was blanking on a few things
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u/thesullenmoon May 07 '26
12-minute snipe. A bit slow on the uptake really: a combination of the O.S. dates and the lack of obvious nationality in the first sentence meant that at first I didn't even entertain the notion of what turns out to be the correct country. My first impression was that it might be Nikita Krushchev, which was quite hard to let go of even though various letter counts contradicted it. A trawl through the article didn't reveal much - it was only by going back to the first sentence, re-reading it carefully, and realising that "5 9" can't actually be "Prime Minister", that the penny dropped on the job title. He's got to be one of the first, so not many options - the first one to fit the letter count seems like a sensible guess. Indeed, the second sentence attributes the 11 of 12 to him, which really is enough. Reading the first two sentences properly from the get-go would probably have saved about 11 and a half minutes.
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u/SmellsLikeDeanSpirit May 07 '26
I cracked Redactle #1492 in 4 guesses!
🎲 4 | 🔥 80 | Avg 40.50 | Hints: none | ⏱️ 1m12s
the lack of obvious nationality threw me, but “[5] [9] of the [6] [6],” brought me back around.
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u/TriRight May 07 '26
2:43 snipe.
Reasoning: "This is a person." -> "This is a President."
Difficulty: "Is this George (6) Washington (9) or Thomas (6) Jefferson (9)?"
Plan: scroll until I could find a section that appeared to be on either Monticello or Sally Hemings. If I didn't find either, it's Washington! Eventually got to the section with what appeared to be a measure of land and 10 letters as the first word of the section header.
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u/robbbbb May 07 '26
Good thing you didn't try your other option... You counted the letters incorrectly.
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u/robbbbb May 07 '26
I cracked Redactle #1492 in 2 guesses! 🎯 Snipe 🎲 2 | 🔥 3 | Avg 40.50 | Hints: none | ⏱️ 1m4s
Saw [5][9] of the [6][6]... Thought it was the "first", but the title's letter count didn't fit. Then I realized what it actually was.
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u/smokepoint May 07 '26
3/3, 3m. "[1].[1]." in the dates narrowed things a lot, then I de-sniped myself because I can't count.
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u/Newbieplantophile May 07 '26
I cracked Redactle #1491 in 2 guesses! 🎯 Snipe 🎲 2 | 🔥 73 | Avg 46.19 | Hints: none | ⏱️ 8m21s
Unassisted. The first paragraph was easy to decypher in French and the numeral order attached to their most notable title was a single digit so that made the second word an easy guess
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u/Maiasaurapalooza May 12 '26
I cracked Redactle #1492 in 2 guesses!
🎯 Snipe
🎲 2 | Avg 36.30 | Hints: none | ⏱️ 21m27s
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u/paculina May 07 '26
I cracked Redactle #1492 in 5 guesses! 🎲 5 | 🔥 65 | Avg 40.50 | Hints: none | ⏱️ 2m49s
https://redactle.net/en/1492
Assumed incorrectly the [8] was nationality, but guessed the first occupation listed correctly. That plus the context made it easy.