Redactle

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722

I did actually look it up! It was literally a copy and paste error. If I had spelled it right the first time and had only guessed xvi, I think I would have had it in about 50.

723

45, 73%

A little frustrated, knew it was a weapon but ‘gunpowder’ only had one hit so I was thinking of more primitive weapons for a while.

724

56 64.29%

I got world wars at the very start but forgot about it. About halfway through, I didn’t have anything else. Then I tried time words, which gave me second, which got me 2,xxx feet per second. After thinking asteroids and planets and other fast stuff like that, it dawned on me it could be weapon-related.

725

32 - 70%

726

Powder had 11 hits

727

Dammit!

728

I solved today’s Redactle (#139) in 32 guesses with an accuracy of 65.63%.

Global Stats

  • Globally, 736 players have solved today’s Redactle so far
  • Global Median: 36.00 Guesses; 65.73% Accuracy
  • Global Average: 52.74 Guesses; 66.40% Accuracy
729

26 - 84.62%

This one was pretty easy for me because War is usually one of my early guesses

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730

mine too

731

35, 71%

War was my first guess. I figured out who was fighting but couldn’t come up with anything. Thought about it for a while and cheated. Not familiar with this war and those are two words I doubt I’d ever come up with.

732

4 - 100%

733

4 - 100% — wonder if anybody got it in 3

734

my extra word was French (2nd word), that had so many hits, went Franco. But wouldn’t think going straight to Franco

735

14 78.57%

1st guess was war. france at 7. germany at 12.

736

This conflict was mentioned in a recent puzzle that was related to France. Plus I can’t think of any other war with a hyphen in it’s name. At this point, if war is in the article, I can guess the name of the war by number and length of blanks in the name

737
  1. I don’t totally trust that where they use a hyphen I would
  2. doesn’t fit Sino-Japanese, Mexican-American comes to mind
738

There are a bunch of wars that commonly use a hyphenated name of the combatants. A bunch of "Anglo-"s, for sure. I search prussian wars just for fun and found Franco-Dutch, Swedish-Brandenburg, and Austro-Prussian.

739

I solved today’s Redactle (#140) in 14 guesses with an accuracy of 64.29%.

Global Stats

  • Globally, 2523 players have solved today’s Redactle so far
  • Global Median: 20.00 Guesses; 79.75% Accuracy
  • Global Average: 33.72 Guesses; 78.62% Accuracy
740

Yeah, one thing that drives me crazy with hyphens in redactle is that they usually don’t leave spaces around ones where I would - when the hyphen isn’t part of a name, for instance, but just separates part of a sentence.

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741

64, 38%

I had a few feelers out kind of in the right area that didn’t hit. Used a lot of guesses on more generic words.