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
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.
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
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.
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