180 38.33%
I’m curious, what is considered cheating? I knew it was an infection and I knew there was a vaccine for it. I guessed tetanus which was a hit. The passage said [blank] (tetanus, [blank], [blank]) I knew the tetanus vaccine covered 2 other diseases, but didn’t know which ones off hand, so I had to look that up. Is that considered cheating? Either way, I got about 99% there on my own.
If I need to look up the final answer, there have been some in the past that I did not know the term at all.
Just checking a spelling of a technical word, I would not include
164 53.03%
I did have to cheat. I had disease and infection around 30-35 and kept narrowing down the symptoms to try and reverse engineer it, but I honestly have never heard of this.
Agree. I’ve had to look up spelling a couple of times and didn’t consider that cheating.
I solved today’s Redactle (#105) in 106 guesses with an accuracy of 43.40%.
I’ve written about this before…
Many people don’t realize how high child mortality was, historically. Yes, it’s been estimated that almost half of the children born in the U.S. in 1800 didn’t survive to age 5. There was improvement in the 19th century, but one can see the spike at 1880, which was due to a diphtheria epidemic. Indeed, diphtheria was a big killer of children, even into the 20th century.
I find it interesting that guessers underestimated mortality for the 1800s and overestimated it for the 1900s and into the 2000s. I bet many people knew that mortality was going to be worse in earlier years (I wasn’t expecting anybody to know about the diphtheria outbreak), but didn’t understand just how bad it was. Many children in the 1800s died in their first year of life, especially soon after birth. In addition, infectious diseases felled many people, still a top cause of death in 1900.
What is very interesting to me is the huge drop off in child mortality from 1900 to 1940, with additional improvement to 1960. This follows the discovery of antibiotics and the development of vaccines for widespread child-killing diseases. No longer is diphtheria a top killer of children.
I went back to the article to look for the mortality. I’d seen the more recent numbers in the article, but not the old ones (they’re not there). While doing that, I noticed the bacteria was IDed by someone named Klebs. I’m guessing he must also be Mr Klebsiella, but I’m too lazy to verify.
44, 64%
I had this built out right up front: “is a family of freshwater fish commonly called the carp or xxxxxx family”
Yeah, no. I don’t think I can name ANY family of fish. So I cheated. I am not familiar with the word.
199 41.71% cheated
I was thinking it was a plant for a while. I finally got onto it being an animal at 100, then fish at 134, and carp right after than. I poked around for a while, but pretty much knew right then that I had no idea what the carp family was called.
120 - 52% - cheated took a while for me to realize I needed to
Took me longer to realize they are all scientific names and not common
I solved today’s Redactle (#106) in 238 guesses with an accuracy of 32.35%.
At move 205, I guessed “fish” – then I tried a bunch of fish I knew… then I cheated. I realized it was some sort of animal early on, but I couldn’t figure out what kind. There was no way I would have gotten this w/o cheating
65 - 65%
got too hung up on television, thinking a show or a station
48, 75%
I spent 25 guesses figuring out what it what it wasn’t, guess 26 got me oriented. Bit of luck today.
50, 60%
The majority of my correct guesses were numbers and names of months because I was seeing a lot of dates and numbers separated by a hyphen, which lead me to believe it was sports related.
184 54.89%
I got stuck for a loooooong time thinking it was a media company or something like that. There were enough clues, but I just didn’t recognize them. I had both National and American long before the end. The thing that finally made it clear was noticing the “pro” near the end. It was kind of an eye-roller.
I solved today’s Redactle (#107) in 57 guesses with an accuracy of 56.14%.
Jeez, I thought it was about international trade agreements initially
I solved today’s Redactle (#108) in 38 guesses with an accuracy of 60.53%.
187, 60%
Pretty embarrassing showing today.
52 53.85%
Pretty workman-like. “Referred” at 4 made me think it was a person. “he” was there, but not “she”, so I thought it was a man. I got France at 12. About 30 I started thinking it might not be a person but didn’t really think building/landmark until 46. The thing that got me thinking that that had to be it was wrong, ironically. I saw the 3 letter word in the first sentence that I took to be Rue. It turned out to be Ile, but by then I was on to the right topic.
174 - 62%
i had no idea for most of this