[Fictionary] redactle: a game you might enjoy

[Fran Poodry]

so far redactle is the only -le game I like enough to play consistently.
I don't really care how much guessing I need to do. ;-)
Fran

On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 5:29 AM E Cohen <eac at inbox.com> wrote:

> On 6/9/2022 1:43 AM, Hutch wrote:
> > Tried it for the first time today and got it.
> >
> > I would have finished in around 130 if I'd realized how it works (that's
> > where I got the key name that should have identified the title), but I
> > didn't know quite what was going on so didn't finish it until 291.
>
> I think it's my new favorite game. I find it hard to not choose
> non-content words -- which will likely have lots of hits, but not tell
> me much -- versus words which are likely to be wrong but would be much
> more revealing.
>
>
> > BB,
> > Hutch
> > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
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> > N+ o K? w++++/--$ O? M- V? PS+ PE/- Y PGP- t++ 5?
> > X-- R !tv? b++++>$ DI++++ D G+> e++ h+ r--?* y++>
> > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 1:07 PM David Turner <novalis at novalis.org
> > <mailto:novalis at novalis.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     Twelve today, twelve yesterday. Would have done better today if I
> >     had been on a computer (easier to count blanks). I think they're
> >     getting easier overall. Either that, or I am getting better.
> >     Definitely my favorite -le variant.
> >
> >     On May 30, 2022 12:31:03 PM EDT, E Cohen <eac at inbox.com
> >     <mailto:eac at inbox.com>> wrote:
> >
> >         On 5/30/2022 10:20 AM, Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote:
> >
> >             I've been really enjoying this puzzle-a-day game:
> >             https://www.redactle.com/ <https://www.redactle.com/>
> >             <https://www.redactle.com/ <https://www.redactle.com/>>
> >
> >
> >         Just tried it, that *is* fun.
> >
> >             Each day (at noon US Eastern time) they pick a semi-random
> >             Wikipedia article and blank out most of the words. You have
> >             to guess the title of the article by guessing words that
> >             might appear in the article. It's fun and infuriating.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >         --
> >         -- Eric | @GoudyBoldItalic
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> -- Eric   |   @GoudyBoldItalic
>
>
>

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*Fran Poodry (she/her)*
*Oregon, USA*



*“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” ― Margaret Mead
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