[Fictionary] redactle: a game you might enjoy

[Ranjit Bhatnagar]

I like redactle a lot, and am always impatient for the game to turn over at
noon (my time). I enjoy feeling smug when I get it in 15 guesses and then
being smacked down when it takes me 150 the next day!

The other -les I do daily, though I don't love 'em like I do redactle, are:
Lingule <https://lingule.xyz/> - presents a single word from a language,
you guess what language it is
Tradle <https://oec.world/en/tradle/> - shows you a random country's
exports, and you guess what country it is


On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 11:17 AM Fran Poodry <fpoodry at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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-----
>> > Version: 3.1
>> > GCM/S d+>- s+:+ a++ C+++$ ULAC>$ P+ L+ !E W++$
>> > 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
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> *Fran Poodry (she/her)*
> *Oregon, USA*
>
>
>
> *“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” ― Margaret
> Mead <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/61107.Margaret_Mead>*
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