[Fictionary] redactle: a game you might enjoy

[Jean-Joseph Cote]

Gave it my first shot today, having no idea what was going on, and 
thinking I was going to have to fill in all the words and that it would 
take forever. Big surprise on my 40th guess when it all revealed itself!

Jean-Joseph

On 6/9/2022 11:23 AM, Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote:
> 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>
>     /
>

-- 
J-J Cote
jjcote at alum.mit.edu
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