This one isn't giving me a lot of immediate ideas to go on, so I might just try to brute-force my way through some common words to see if they give me any hints.
I've been spending a little more time on Redactle than I'd like (I mean, it's fun, and I'm learning some stuff, and I enjoy watching how I think), so I might try to do this one a little more quickly.
All the "If" phrases make me think of mathematical axioms, so I start with mathematics and angle and region (all those inside and outside instances make me think of geometry), but no luck - 0 hits for all three.
So I try some more ordinary words - example and more and given - a few hits there - and then, still thinking science, theory, which gets me some hits.
Then some more ordinary words, all and one; then war - in that Metafilter thread about Redactle, someone said that all Wikipedia articles have the word war in them - but no, 0 hits.
I tried religion, and there were some phrases that looked like they were contrasting religion with something else - but not science, because I'd already guessed that - so I tried thought, and that helped a lot - 25 hits. So then I tried philosophy, and once again, something I thought would give me a couple of hits ended up being one of two words in the title of the article. Huh.
Several more guesses that didn't get me much closer, followed by a longer skim to give my brain a chance to generate ideas, and finally I wondered if it might be Buddhist, and yep - that was it.
I solved today's Redactle (#22) in 34 guesses with an accuracy of 73.53%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/
Congratulations, you solved Redactle #22!
- The answer was: buddhist philosophy
- You solved it in 34 guesses
- Your accuracy was 73.53%
- You have solved 13 consecutive Redactles
Global Stats
- Globally, 11988 players have solved today's Redactle so far
- Global Median: 96.00 Guesses; 56.84% Accuracy
- Global Average: 132.86 Guesses; 57.57% Accuracy
| # | Guess | Hits |
|---|---|---|
| 34 | buddhist | 107 |
| 33 | logical | 2 |
| 32 | god | 3 |
| 31 | ideas | 5 |
| 30 | metaphysical | 9 |
| 29 | better | 0 |
| 28 | good | 5 |
| 27 | life | 4 |
| 26 | christian | 1 |
| 25 | rational | 2 |
| 24 | eastern | 0 |
| 23 | western | 12 |
| 22 | natural | 2 |
| 21 | refers | 2 |
| 20 | philosophy | 53 |
| 19 | thought | 25 |
| 18 | history | 3 |
| 17 | period | 9 |
| 16 | religion | 2 |
| 15 | planets | 0 |
| 14 | man | 0 |
| 13 | science | 4 |
| 12 | war | 0 |
| 11 | one | 34 |
| 10 | all | 52 |
| 9 | according | 23 |
| 8 | theory | 25 |
| 7 | plane | 0 |
| 6 | given | 2 |
| 5 | more | 13 |
| 4 | example | 7 |
| 3 | region | 0 |
| 2 | angle | 0 |
| 1 | mathematics | 0 |
So - 34 guesses, not bad at all for a topic that didn't leap out at me given the minimal clues of punctuation and common words.
Skimming again, with all the words visible - there's so much to learn here. I could spend days on every paragraph.
There's so much to know.