Similar to Mathman again. I got Cairo at 60, then just started trying anything that seemed like it could be named Cairo something and had about the right length. I was already running out of things when I hit University. If I’d thought about it more, I might have come up with it just a bit sooner because I was aware that there was a list of people at the end and that one of them was a professor. But at the time I tried professor, I had assumed the article was referring to a city or region and not something else.
I solved today’s Redactle (#97) in 36 guesses with an accuracy of 61.11%.
I was late getting to this, as I had a colonoscopy yesterday. I originally thought it was a person, but with the guess ‘education’ and then ‘university’… I got there quickly.
I hit ship at 9 and kept along that path pretty much the whole way. Everything I tried along those lines gave quite a few hits. Once I got going, the range in the second sentence is what I mostly focused on and that seemed to point toward the Mediterranean, which was very misleading, until I finally got around to trying America. When that got hits, I knew the answer.
FML. I saw ‘aboard’ before I started. Guessed some boating words, got some hits. I got ‘Viking’ at 96, forgot the plural. Kept on going. Norway: check. Valhalla: check. Scandinavia: check. Finally realized I forgot the plural. D’oh!
I got the general concept pretty fast, and had electrochemical about half way through, but it took a while to get the right form.
I’ve started putting in a bunch of filler words right away - not, where, what, that, there, they, them, and some more as I think of them - before even getting started. So I’m probably 20 guesses in before even really making any guesses.
I cheated. I got chemistry at 7, physical at 16, and then branch. I tried a few things like solid state and thermodynamics but I can’t name the branches of p chem. So rather than drag this out for 300 guesses, I googled.
I thought it was math to start, but didn’t get the hits I expected at all. Then I tried to focus on the “Not all…” part at the top but didn’t make any sense of that. Then the answer just popped into my head.