Despite the suffix, Redactle isn’t an exact clone and has you guess multiple words to uncover a random article from Wikipedia.
The common garden variety of Wordle clones are always the exact same game but centred on a specific subject. Others, while borrowing the ‘-dle’ suffix, try to do more of their own thing, such as having you guess a song by listening to only a portion of it.
In this instance, Redactle tasks you with not guessing one word but multiple words in order to identify a randomly selected Wikipedia page, and it may just be the hardest variation of the game yet.
The way it works is that you’re presented with a copy of a Wikipedia article, with most of the words redacted outside of the most commonly used ones like ‘the’ and ‘is’.
If you enter a word that is contained in the article, that word will be unredacted and the game will even tell you how many times it appears in said article. The end goal is to work out the article’s title or subject.
Redactle doesn’t draw from every Wikipedia article that exists, thank goodness. Instead, it limits itself to Wikipedia’s own list of , which consists of roughly 10,000 topics. That’s still a small sample of Wikipedia’s total number of articles, which sits over 6 million, in case you’re wondering.
It’s certainly more time consuming than Wordle since there’s no limit to how many guesses you’re allowed (we’ve been stuck on today’s one for over an hour). However, the puzzle changes daily and clicking the info button at the top of the page will tell you what the answer to the previous puzzle was if you failed to guess it.
The game keeps track of your statistics as well, telling you how many guesses it took you to solve a puzzle and how accurate you were.
Part of it does feel luck based, since you’ll have a much easier time if you manage to guess a word that is used frequently in the article compared to guessing multiple words that appear only two or three times.
However, it’s certainly one of the more novel takes on the Wordle formula (you could argue that it may as well be an original game altogether) and is completely free. If you’re interested, you can .
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