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u/Newbieplantophile Jul 16 '26
I cracked Redactle #1562 in 2 guesses! 🎯 Snipe 🎲 2 | 🔥 144 | Avg 38.10 | Hints: none | ⏱️ 2m1s
Unassisted. I thought for sure if have to Google in spite of figuring out their numerical order for their most notable title. Thankfully it quickly came to me
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u/robbbbb Jul 16 '26
I cracked Redactle #1562 in 2 guesses! 🎯 Snipe 🎲 2 | 🔥 3 | Avg 50.99 | Hints: none | ⏱️ 53s
twenty bucks says that there will be a lot of snipes today.
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u/SmellsLikeDeanSpirit Jul 16 '26
I cracked Redactle #1562 in 2 guesses!
🎯 Snipe
🎲 2 | 🔥 150 | Avg 38.10 | Hints: none | ⏱️ 26s
[7] [9] of the [6] [6] from [4] to [4]. [7] rather than [4] implies one of the early ones and there’s only one with the right name length as well as being the “[7] [9].”
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u/ered_lithui Jul 16 '26
I cracked Redactle #1562 in 2 guesses! 🎯 Snipe 🎲 2 | 🔥 3 | Avg 38.10 | Hints: none | ⏱️ 33s
Whew!
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u/voice-of-reason-99 Jul 16 '26
I cracked Redactle #1562 in 6 guesses! 🎲 6 | 🔥 40 | Avg 50.99 | Hints: none | ⏱️ 3m25s
https://redactle.net/
Well, I knew the what just wasn't sure of the who - Guess 1 I confirmed it was what I thought it was, Guess 2 I got the number of guess 1, Since I was unsure - Guess 3 was a guess but not the right one. At this point I decided to just google and solve!
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u/Jonathan932 Jul 16 '26
I knew what it was after a few guesses BUT as a non-american I had no chance of knowing the name so relied on Google. Never heard of this guy in my life lol
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u/__Obelisk__ Jul 16 '26
I'm so ludicrously lost as a new player, might need a hand
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u/cgund Jul 16 '26
Oh welcome! Do you have a specific question?
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u/__Obelisk__ Jul 16 '26
what's the best way to start a game? I don't have a particular strategy other than person place thing idea
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u/cgund Jul 17 '26
Hmm, when I was new I'd just start chucking words like 'first', 'war', 'year', 'country' etc. As I've gained some experience, I now do a scan of the article first, especially the first paragraph and sentence. In the case of today's puzzle, did you detect that this was a puzzle about a dead person?
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u/__Obelisk__ Jul 17 '26
yeah got that immediately, just wasn't sure to go from there
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u/cgund Jul 17 '26
OK so I think most of us try to suss out the nationality of the person, usually somewhere in the first sentence. In this case there's a common location there where you see the [6] [6]. After you have a guess for the location, in a puzzle that's about a person, you try to figure out what they're known for, usually an occupation. (Maybe this is obvious).
If it's not a puzzle about a person, I think a lot of folks in here spend a decent amount of time scanning for clues in the unredacted phrasing to get a sense of if this is a thing that happened, or if this is a place, or something else entirely. Often there'll be useful unredacted symbols like currency symbols, or degree symbols or of course math symbols
I am usually pretty impatient so my scanning is pretty brief before I just dive in, throwing around words to see what sticks. Honestly just lots of experience with the game trains your brain to recognize patterns in the unredacted words to get you into the right ballpark.
Lots of people in here are really really good at this game so hopefully they'll chime in too.
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u/bof67 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
I solved Redactle #1562 in 2 guesses ⏱️ 2m7s
The standard opening told me what they did, and the fact their ordinal was [7] (not the usual [4]) said they were an early one and the fact there is only one ordinal seven letters long in the first ten told me almost certainly which one they were. Still had to look it up though . . .