FAQ
What is Redactle Rush?
Ten mystery Wikipedia subjects, one sitting. Each round hands you a redacted title and a short extract from the article, and you get one guess to name it. It’s the quick version of Redactle, where a single article can keep you busy for an afternoon.
How do I play?
Read what’s left visible, work out what the article is about, and type your answer. If nothing comes to mind, skip and move on. Ten rounds, then you’re done for the day.
What do the coloured bars mean?
The redacted title is your strongest clue — the bars show you how many words are in the answer and how long each one is. When a title word turns up in the article body it keeps the same colour, so you can see where the subject is being talked about.
How does scoring work?
A title, alias or accepted name scores 1. A conservative answer that clearly identifies the same concept without naming the article scores 0.5 and appears yellow. A miss or skip scores 0. Ten full-credit rounds is perfect.
What counts as a correct answer?
You don’t have to match the title exactly. Common names, redirects and aliases all work, punctuation and accents are forgiven, and for people a surname on its own is usually enough as long as it isn’t ambiguous. Disambiguators in brackets are optional too — for an article titled “Mercury (planet)”, just “Mercury” is fine.
My answer was right and it wasn’t accepted
Sometimes a genuinely correct name isn’t on the list of accepted answers for that article, and that’s our problem rather than yours. Use the report button on the round to tell us what you typed — those reports are read, and they’re the main way the answer lists get fixed.
How is time measured?
The clock only runs while you’re actually playing. It pauses when you switch tabs or leave the game sitting idle, so making a cup of tea mid-round won’t cost you anything.
When does the next daily arrive?
A new set of ten goes live at midnight UTC, so everyone gets the same articles on the same day wherever they are. Depending on your timezone that might land in the middle of your afternoon.
How do streaks work?
Finish the daily and your streak goes up by one. Miss a day and it starts again from zero.
Can I play more than one a day?
Yes — a random case deals you ten articles from previous dailies whenever you want another go.
Can I play against other people?
Yes. Start a room in Rounds and share the join code, and everyone plays the same articles at the same time with the scores side by side.
Can I go back to earlier rounds?
Once you’ve guessed or skipped a round you can use the arrows beside the round label to look back at it. The round you’re currently on stays put until you’ve played it. Your finished dailies are kept in the archive.
Can I suggest an article?
Please do — nominate one here. It needs to be a reasonably well-developed Wikipedia article about an actual subject, rather than a survey page like “History of …”, and it has to be safe for work. Most suggestions don’t make the cut, and the ones that do can take a while to show up.
Where do the pictures come from?
They come from the Wikipedia article itself, and only appear once a round is over. Some articles don’t have a suitable picture, so occasionally you’ll just get the title.
Do I need an account?
No. Your games, guesses, times, streak and theme are saved in your browser, so you can close the tab and pick up where you left off. The flip side is that they’re tied to this browser: clearing your site data or switching to another device starts you fresh.
Something looks broken
If a round is unreadable, gives the answer away, or just seems wrong, use the report button on that round. For anything else, send us feedback — it genuinely does get read.