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Redactle – a daily game of un-redacting Wikipedia articles

38 points by azalemeth 4y ago

jcrash 4y ago
That was incredibly difficult.
melony 4y ago
Where are all the wordle solver engineers and their maximum likelihood estimators?
VoidWhisperer 4y ago
This could definitely stand to have an easier mode. With so much of it redacted it is hard to begin to draw any context from it
dannyeei 4y ago
Far out - after 20 minutes I'm giving up. Please add an easy mode
thebigspacefuck 4y ago
I got 314. That was fun.
mxmilkiib 4y ago
Aside; I hope some day/time in the future that AI can recover, from Wikipedia article history, in some form, all the useful info that has been removed from Wikipedia by deletionists, or whatever they're called more recently, or even just through bad copyediting/merges.
NBJack 4y ago
Great concept, but the obscurity of the terminology at times will make this....trying. Plus, it does not appear to validate words nor automatically fill out variants. For me, this was fun until I got past guess 200 or so.
- the_biot 4y ago
  There's a setting (annoyingly non-persistent) to make it try out plurals and some variants, but it's buggy. This could be so much better with a few fixes and tweaks, but the author appears to have abandoned it immediately after launch. Such a shame, it's really quite a challenge.
deruta 4y ago
Have been playing this for a week or two now, landing a few perfect scores, and it turns out that the guesses that will get you far are words like "defined", "known" etc., and some words you'd expect to be unredacted from the get go, like "can", "be", "they". Another thing is structure of the articles, mostly parentheses. Two-character words? Date and place of birth (and maybe death). Colon after first word? The name of another language (mostly). Try "named" and you might have another hint about the etymology. Look for subscripts (superscripts are out with the rest of TeX) ...given, there was a bad day to not know the word "injunction", so there's that.
lynguist 4y ago
I just found ‘England’ and ‘King James II’ inside the redacted text, it’s way too hard for me. Can anyone share the solution?
idk1 4y ago
I really enjoyed that! I got it in 10, here's my guesses (spoilers for Friday the 3rd of June) - https://i.imgur.com/oz9lASY.png https://i.imgur.com/oz9lASY.png
stets 4y ago
108 for Today's! How do I play previous days?

38 points by azalemeth 4y ago

jcrash 4y ago

That was incredibly difficult.

melony 4y ago

Where are all the wordle solver engineers and their maximum likelihood estimators?

VoidWhisperer 4y ago

This could definitely stand to have an easier mode. With so much of it redacted it is hard to begin to draw any context from it

dannyeei 4y ago

Far out - after 20 minutes I'm giving up. Please add an easy mode

thebigspacefuck 4y ago

I got 314. That was fun.

mxmilkiib 4y ago

Aside; I hope some day/time in the future that AI can recover, from Wikipedia article history, in some form, all the useful info that has been removed from Wikipedia by deletionists, or whatever they're called more recently, or even just through bad copyediting/merges.

NBJack 4y ago

Great concept, but the obscurity of the terminology at times will make this....trying. Plus, it does not appear to validate words nor automatically fill out variants. For me, this was fun until I got past guess 200 or so.

the_biot 4y ago
There's a setting (annoyingly non-persistent) to make it try out plurals and some variants, but it's buggy. This could be so much better with a few fixes and tweaks, but the author appears to have abandoned it immediately after launch. Such a shame, it's really quite a challenge.

deruta 4y ago

Have been playing this for a week or two now, landing a few perfect scores, and it turns out that the guesses that will get you far are words like "defined", "known" etc., and some words you'd expect to be unredacted from the get go, like "can", "be", "they". Another thing is structure of the articles, mostly parentheses. Two-character words? Date and place of birth (and maybe death). Colon after first word? The name of another language (mostly). Try "named" and you might have another hint about the etymology. Look for subscripts (superscripts are out with the rest of TeX) ...given, there was a bad day to not know the word "injunction", so there's that.

lynguist 4y ago

I just found ‘England’ and ‘King James II’ inside the redacted text, it’s way too hard for me. Can anyone share the solution?

idk1 4y ago

I really enjoyed that! I got it in 10, here's my guesses (spoilers for Friday the 3rd of June) - https://i.imgur.com/oz9lASY.png https://i.imgur.com/oz9lASY.png

stets 4y ago

108 for Today's! How do I play previous days?