Redactle is a cruel Wordle knockoff that may need you to make hundreds of guesses.

Every day, a full Wikipedia page is deleted. Word by word, reveal it.

Wordle is a straightforward game where you have six guesses to figure out the answer, which is part of what makes it so well-liked and clone-able. It's a quick puzzle you can solve before continuing with your day (unless you want to use Wordlebot to explain in great detail how bad each of your guesses were). Perhaps you're searching for something a little more challenging—a daily guessing game in which you could make dozens, if not hundreds, of incorrect guesses before finding the answer? I've got you covered if you're a guess-glutton.

Each day, Redactle Unlimited provides you with a Wikipedia article. An whole Wikipedia article, from top to bottom, picked from the just over 10,000 "Vital articles" on Wikipedia. The problem is that almost all of the words in the article have been removed, so you have to make educated guesses as to which article you are looking at. If you successfully predict a word, it will be revealed, and once you've revealed a ton of words, you might even be able to guess the article's topic. But first, we're talking about a ton of guesses.

Not all words are hidden. Punctuation is also displayed, but other words like "is," "it," "a," "on," and "the" aren't all that helpful when practically everything else is obscured. But over time, you can begin to chip away at the pile of concealed words and perhaps even uncover a complete sentence that will (hopefully) give some indication of the true content of the redacted Wikipedia article.

When you find a word, it will be highlighted and you may click on it in the sidebar to rapidly navigate to each place where it appears in the article, much like a text search. You can fast return to the page's top by using another button. Although finding a lot of terms, I struggled with Redactle on two different days before giving up after roughly fifty guesses. Nonetheless, I have a short attention span, and I'm confident that the more committed puzzle-smashers will love guessing till they get it, regardless of how long it takes. On Twitter, I've seen someone solve a riddle in as few as 40 guesses and others in excess of 300. Give it a try and see where you end up.

Semantle, where your guesses can easily number in the dozens or even hundreds before you answer it, is a good alternative to Wordle if you're looking for a similarly painful game after Redactle (or give up). Instead of using spelling in that daily game, you have to guess words that have a comparable meaning.