Pedantle - Uncover words in the description to guess the Wikipedia entry

A game I discovered a couple of weeks ago. It’s quite hard but feels great when you beat it in under 20 guesses.

You are given a totally redacted wiki article and you can type in whatever words you want to try and uncover individual words in the article. If you tap a censored word, it will tell you how many characters it is and if you guess ‘monkey’ and the word ‘gorilla’ appears in the article, it will fill in the space but also indicates that the word you entered was close but not quite right.

I got today’s one in my lowest number of guesses yet

I found #pedantle #982 in 14 guesses!
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Words I use as helpful starters

Born, event, country, subject

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Got it in 19. Quite possibly would’ve got there sooner but it took me a while to get my head around the messy layout.

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I found #pedantle #982 in 22 guesses!
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Could have done it a bit quicker if I was properly thinking about it

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That’s a really fun game, bookmarked!

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I don’t understand why some words are greyed out after getting them?

Also, why are some guessed filled in but not right?

What the hell is the UI all about?

Spoilers for bad guesses

Summary

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I see their Semantle ripoff there too

https://legacy.semantle.com/

The objective of the game is to find the secret Wikipedia page by revealing in successive attempts the words composing its introduction.

Correct words will appear in clear as you guess them. Words that are close enough will stay grayed out with a level of gray proportional to their proximity to the correct word in the lexical field. This calculation is similar to the one used in cemantle. You can see a hidden word length by pressing on its black box.

When words forming the Wikipedia page title are uncovered, you win! Please note that the title words are either correct or not, they’re never grayed out. The root of a word could be enough to reveal its plural and conjugated forms. Uppercase letters aren’t necessary.

You will need more than 6 guesses; probably dozens of them. The ranking given to you at the end of the game is your position in the list of players who have found the page of the day, it’s independent of the number of guesses. At the end of the game, you’ll be given the choice between displaying the page, revealing each word separately by pressing on its black box, or keeping on playing.

There’s a new random page every day at noon US Pacific Time, or 21:00 local time.

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I don’t think this for me, how youse got in 20 guesses I have no idea.

What is the answer so I can figure out the game? I’m on guess 51 and now it is just guessing countries

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Try guessing continents to narrow it down

I took 101 guesses but still had fun with it

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I know where it is just can’t get it.

Borders

Compass directions

Got it, don’t like it. Had to Google things in that area, basically became that geography game.

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Enjoyed that. Took me 82, but I think now I get it I can bring that down for future games. Found things for a lot clearer when after about fifty guesses with few direct hits I decluttered the page by going for the, and, is, etc

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Cool. Took a while as I didn’t really understand why some were filled to start with. Got that it was something geographical early but was barking up the wrong tree for a while.

I found #pedantle #982 in 62 guesses!
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By the way, it resets at 8PM UK time.

Some other recent ones were

Milk
Ludwig Von Beethoven
United States (found it weird that the article misses the ‘of America’)
Game
Bible

80 guesses today, definitely was thrown off by some of its ideas of what constitutes “close enough”. Think I’d actually do better with a topic I know less about

This is doing my head in

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