18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 35

[cahn]

In the previous post Charles II found AITA:

Look, I, m, believe in live and let live. (And in not going on my travels again. Had enough of that to last a life time.) Why can't everyone else around me be more chill? Instead, my wife refuses to employ my girlfriend, my girlfriend won't budge and accept another office, my brother is set on a course to piss off everyone (he WILL go on his travels again), and my oldest kid shows signs of wanting my job which is just not on, sorry to say. And don't get me started about Mom (thank God she's living abroad). What am I doing wrong? AITA?

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Today's Redactle

[cahn]

Will be back soon, but just popping in to say that sineala posted on DW tonight about a game called Redactle, the idea of which is that it takes a Wikipedia article, strips all the words from it except prepositions, conjunctions, articles, and prepositions, and then each guess you make fills in words in the article (if they're present) -- the object is to guess the title of the article. (Sineala's writeup is rather more detailed.)

Anyway, I thought I'd give it a try, and I laughed when I figured out today's. (No, it's not Frederick the Great.) It's up until 11am CDT (so, a little less than 12 hours from now) which would give you guys time to do it, if you are curious. It took me rather longer than I imagine it would take you guys (partially because I did a couple of stupid things), and it only took me about ten minutes :) (More once the puzzle isn't up any more.)

Re: Today's Redactle

[mildred_of_midgard]

Hee! I don't do puzzles, but my wife does Wordle, so I'll let her know about this.

Besides, I already have a daily puzzle, it's called, "Figure out how Sabine Appel's clauses fit together." :PPP

Re: Today's Redactle

[mildred_of_midgard]

So I'm still curious what this was!

(Btw, I have now done a grand total of 2 Redactles. Verdict: more suited to me than Wordle, still not rewarding enough to do regularly.)

Re: Today's Redactle

[cahn]

House of Medici :)

(Took me longer than I think it should have because I don't think I usually use that particular phrasing for the Medici.)

Re: Today's Redactle

[mildred_of_midgard]

Thank you for satisfying my 3.5 months of curiosity!

My two were "Atahualpa" (I got enough information to google "last Inca emperor", no I didn't know his name) and "antiparticle" (which I did get on my own, although in hindsight I should have figured it out a lot sooner).

Re: Today's Redactle

[selenak]

Alas, this whole thing is beyond this foreigner to play, but I love that "House of Medici" was a solution. Contessina de' Medici from my icon may not look it, but she approves.