dudes check out
https://www.redactle.com/an entire wikipedia article, a prominent one (top 10,000)
almost everything redacted
unlimited guesses, each correct guess un-redacts the word from the whole article
you're attempting to do it in the least number of guesses but it's kind of chill, it's fun to guess word patterns like "____ of the _______" oh maybe that's "turn of the century" etc etc
tip: they give you a lot of the most common words but don't forget him/her/his/she/when/was/0/1/2/3/one/two/three
tip: think of common wikipedia phrasing like "criticisms" or "in popular culture" or "early life"
here are the most recent two solutions:
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- Atahualpa (the last Incan emperor which is kind of obscure and I had to cheat to guess)
- prophesy (very easy once I got into god/jesus/joseph smith territory)
the puzzle resets at a weird time, 11 AM CDT
