my buddy is beta testing
Each guess must be a word (of any length). The similarity value is how similar word2vec thinks your word is to the secret word. The highest possible similarity is 100 (indicating that the words are identical and you have won). You will need more than six guesses. You will probably need dozens of guesses.Words may be any part of speech. It's tempting to think only of nouns, since that is how normal semantic word-guessing games work. Don't get caught in the trap! Since our Word2Vec data set contains some proper nouns, guesses are case-sensitive. But I removed all but lower-case words from the secret word set, and if your word matches the secret word but for case, you win anyway. So if you want to know if the word is more like nice or Nice, you can ask about both.Prior art. I discovered French Toast about 20 years ago, and immediately knew that I had to tell Dominus about it. He replied that in fact he and Ranjit had invented it 20 years before that, and called it "Plenty Questions".But I wasn't thinking of French Toast when I invented this. Instead, I was thinking about Wordle and Worldle and about the dimensionality of data sets. I considered Filmle, a movie guessing game: You say "The Matrix", it says "Keanu Reeves has a bacon number of 3 where bacon is the lead actor in the target film." (and so on for Carrie-Ann Moss, Laurence Fishburne, and Hugo Weaving for actors at corresponding billings). But I don't care about movies. Too bad, because IMDB actually has exactly the data that you would need to implement it in a really easy form. Then I remembered word2vec, and here we are.(Yes, I expect it to be way too hard -- that's not a bug, it's inherent vice. I promise that I have been able to solve some of these).
Prior art. I discovered French Toast about 20 years ago, and immediately knew that I had to tell Dominus about it. He replied that in fact he and Ranjit had invented it 20 years before that, and called it "Plenty Questions".
But I wasn't thinking of French Toast when I invented this. Instead, I was thinking about Wordle and Worldle and about the dimensionality of data sets. I considered Filmle, a movie guessing game: You say "The Matrix", it says "Keanu Reeves has a bacon number of 3 where bacon is the lead actor in the target film." (and so on for Carrie-Ann Moss, Laurence Fishburne, and Hugo Weaving for actors at corresponding billings). But I don't care about movies. Too bad, because IMDB actually has exactly the data that you would need to implement it in a really easy form. Then I remembered word2vec, and here we are.
(Yes, I expect it to be way too hard -- that's not a bug, it's inherent vice. I promise that I have been able to solve some of these).
https://semantle.novalis.org/
originally here before the word nerds got testyTomtit in the tilth -- the NY TIMES SPELLING BEE thread
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 7 February 2022 15:37 (two years ago) link
Today's word seems to have loaded sometime last night, like by 9pm EST? Because I seem to have already finished it; reloading doesn't get me a new puzzle. I don't want to give anything away about today's solution.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 7 February 2022 16:06 (two years ago) link
managed to luck out and get today’s in 21 but really this game is just throwing a bunch of random words into a text box, not finding it particularly satisfying
― donna rouge, Monday, 7 February 2022 17:58 (two years ago) link
I finally tried this. Best early guess was a 677/1000 then I had an 817/1000 but couldn't really tell what was up. When I finally gave up and saw the answer it didn't quite make sense.
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 February 2022 22:02 (two years ago) link
I got today's in 60 but a lot of that was me failing to think of a really obvious connected word and instead trying increasingly niche things that were connected to my close guesses.
― emil.y, Monday, 7 February 2022 22:05 (two years ago) link
Now doing a post-mortem, post-season, whatever. I have words 997 and 998 and they still have less than 60% similarity.
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 February 2022 22:09 (two years ago) link
Cool. I just got it in 6, but that feels like beginner's luck!
― jaymc, Monday, 7 February 2022 22:09 (two years ago) link
i'm going to say very much so!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 7 February 2022 23:58 (two years ago) link
Took me 51 this time, but that's still an improvement from the first few times when I decided it was impossible and gave up. There's definitely a learning curve.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 01:08 (two years ago) link
have three goes at this - first time i gave up, second time got it in a mere 172 guesses - today was 18 - so fully expecting to get it first try tomorrow
it's definitely initially interesting in the same way that Wordle is initially interesting, in that it requires you to foreground/attend to processes that are normally intuitive
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 01:47 (two years ago) link
*have had
Semantle author here! forkclovetofu invited me in. First, thanks to everyone who is playing! It always gives me a smile to see something I make get used. I plan to continue to make updates to Semantle over the course of at least the next few weeks. I am especially happy to make minor usability and legibility fixes, which don't require as much thought.
New puzzles appear at midnight UTC, which early evening here in NYC.
A similarity hint for today's word is (or should be) near the top of the page. I've just added some bold to make it a little easier to see.
A 60% similarity is fairly typical for the closest word. If you think about it, this makes sense: each word is represented as 300 numbers, and with 300 numbers, there are a lot of ways to be different. Someone in the previous thread complained about the low similarity of "elevator" and "lift". I understand that complaint -- but there is really only one context in which they are similar: up-going boxes. By contrast, "lift" can also refer to "bro, do you even lift?" -- a totally different part of speech. "Mood lift" is some sort of scam drug; "mood elevator" is some sort of scam book. "elevator music" seems to be much more common a phrase than "lift music". And so forth.
I hope to add one more wacky hinting mechanism, but it's kind of complicated and it's not clear that it will be at all useful. Probably later this week, or over the coming weekend.
― David Turner (semantle), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 03:58 (two years ago) link
Hey David, welcome...Sounds like an interesting project, I have been unable to play on my Android phone or my iPad, but I enjoyed reading the description... :)
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 04:13 (two years ago) link
Works on Android (Pixel 5, Firefox and Chrome) for me, and iPhone for my wife. If you give me more info about what sort of breakage you're seeing, I might be able to fix it.
― David Turner (semantle), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 04:17 (two years ago) link
well fuck, that's my first time getting the word. 46.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 04:18 (two years ago) link
Measuring the "similarity" of words is a very squishy concept that could encompass a large number of concepts of what similarity means. But software deals in algorithms, not concepts, and if a programmer tried to implement more than one similarity measurement they would need to apply a method for resolving the unavoidable conflicts that would arise from applying all of them to the same case while each delivering a different numeric 'similarity' weight. All that programming would get messy in a hurry.
This leads me to think the basis for judging "similarity" and attaching a numeric weight to it would be the product of probably just one measurement, at most three. Figure out what drives the algorithm and you should be able to reduce the solution to an optimal strategy you could counter-program in your own computer. Creating such a program would literally exemplify "thinking like a computer". My guess is that somebody will do just that and the game will be over.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 04:32 (two years ago) link
Thanks David, I just type a word in, hit guess, and then nothing happens... no getting close meter, no rank, no guess count... (it's just the Samsung browser on my phone, and Safari on the iPad...)Anyway, didn't mean to turn this into tech support, please don't sweat it...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 04:33 (two years ago) link
his leads me to think the basis for judging "similarity" and attaching a numeric weight to it would be the product of probably just one measurement, at most three. Figure out what drives the algorithm and you should be able to reduce the solution to an optimal strategy you could counter-program in your own computer.
the 'algorithm' here is a neural net, they are famously not amenable to reverse engineering and as david said each word is represented as 300 numbers.
― ledge, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 10:01 (two years ago) link
Started to maybe get the hang of it today, my first not cold guess was only 303/1000, it could have led me to the answer quickly but I ended up going a completely different route and got it in 122.
― ledge, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 10:04 (two years ago) link
121. Holy shit, I’m gonna waste a lot of time with this.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 16:06 (two years ago) link
I am giving up pretty early until I kind of understand what is going on.
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 16:11 (two years ago) link
The interface is definitely much easier to use on the computer than the (Android) phone. The enter box is tiny on the phone and if I zoom in enough to see it, the word list and leading text is gigantic. But this has promise as one of those quick "brain break" games for me - so much less autopilot than Two Dots or any of the Candy Crush variants.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 16:22 (two years ago) link
I love the idea of this game, but I'm just not getting it. I've given up in frustration both days so far, and playing around with it further after knowing the word only confuses me more about what's considered "close".
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
I am feeling that too, only I somehow managed not to get frustrated...yet.
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 16:36 (two years ago) link
what factors are considered in the comparison? Or is the fun lying in not knowing? I gave up too fwiw
― Ste, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 16:39 (two years ago) link
Got it in 21 today! Much better.
I don't really have any advice for those who are struggling with it. I tend to start with a few guess words that are as semantically different as I can think of at the time and see what's closest, and then progress from there.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 16:40 (two years ago) link
here's some info on Word2Vec, which is the underlying algorithmhttps://radimrehurek.com/gensim/auto_examples/tutorials/run_word2vec.htmlhttps://medium.com/@zafaralibagh6/a-simple-word2vec-tutorial-61e64e38a6a1
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:25 (two years ago) link
m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), what word were you trying? Someone just pointed out a bug with that symptom with "slice" (and about a hundred other misc words), which I just fixed.
― David Turner (semantle), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:33 (two years ago) link
If anyone wants to know what "different" (as opposed to "similar") looks like on a related dataset, try https://www.datcreativity.com/task (not mine -- I'm just a fan).
― David Turner (semantle), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:34 (two years ago) link
It doesn't know the word aeroplane
― kinder, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:37 (two years ago) link
My first time playing it today and can't seem to get closer than 824 (32.73% similarity).
― kinder, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:44 (two years ago) link
I tried a bunch of different words, I'm pretty sure it's just the doinky Samsung phone browser...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:45 (two years ago) link
If you can, switch to Firefox. Not for Semantle. But because with Firefox, you can install an adblocker like ublock origin, making everything much more pleasant.
― David Turner (semantle), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:47 (two years ago) link
I gave up but I like the game, I'll try again tomorrow...
― kinder, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:50 (two years ago) link
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:00 (two years ago) link
Now that it's the next day, I can say that, for instance, the day the answer was CANDLE, I got my highest hits from (iirc, I've actually forgotten already) ALTAR and, like, words relating to textiles you might find in a religious setting. I think one of them was WIMPLE, in fact. Those prompts made me fixate on textiles and wardrobe items, when I apparently should have been expanding to other things found in a ritual setting? Did anyone else get CANDLE and if so, what was your approach?
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:13 (two years ago) link
Then I can't help but think that the dynamic between the player and the game will be similar to other situations where the reward is entirely erratic and unpredictable. If the reward is powerful enough and is dispensed often enough to reinforce, the player will continue to seek it and may even become convinced they discovered the secret method for winning. If the reward is too weak or too infrequent to be reinforcing the player abandons the game.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:14 (two years ago) link
i bailed before i got there as it was driving me nuts but i got highest with FIREPLACE, PYRE, FLAME. Couldn't find my way to where I was supposed to go. i have a funnier story about todays, but I will wait.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:15 (two years ago) link
it should be noted that, having won once, i am particularly interested in seeing if i have figured out the internal logic somehow or if that was a fluke.given that there are people (on this thread even) who are maintaining some consistency, I don't think it's an erratic or unpredictable puzzle so much as it requires access to a specific perspective, one that i'm having issues attaining.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:17 (two years ago) link
My close guesses were LAMP and LANTERN, which you would *think* would give me a good basis for getting candle. I instead spiralled into guessing SEARCHLIGHT, SPOTLIGHT, LAMPSTAND, HEADLAMP and other stupid things, before taking a break and finally having CANDLE come into my mind.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:34 (two years ago) link
I did also get a glitch where one of my closer guesses didn't come up with the green indicator bar, but instead said "cold" - I can't remember what word it was so this isn't a good bug report, I guess, but I figured I'd mention it seeing as we have the creator here.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:36 (two years ago) link
gonna start c+ping my answers to post here post game
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 19:50 (two years ago) link
Can we just put the answer into one of those other sites and see the map of the close words or do we just keep guessing at the semantle site?
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 20:05 (two years ago) link
if you're seeing a way to do that, i'd be curious!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 20:13 (two years ago) link
I don't think it's an erratic or unpredictable puzzle so much as it requires access to a specific perspective, one that i'm having issues attaining.
This is where I am, I'm by no means faulting the game. Actually some of the posts made since I mentioned my frustration earlier have helped me already shift my perspective for next time.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 20:21 (two years ago) link
Yeah I think I'll give it a proper go tomorrow, as my initial confusion has been somewhat dispelled.
― Ste, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 20:39 (two years ago) link
emil,y: Thanks for the report. The word you found wasn't a "normal" word (meaning, a word in the 370k-word all-lowercase wordlist that I am using to generate the top 1000). A friend of mine found this a few days ago with "winningest". It's weird to have two word lists, but I really didn't like some of the garbage in the full 3 million words of the word2vec data set I'm using (in one case, one of the top 200 words was some reporter's email address!). To reproduce: capitalize the first letter of today's 999/1000 word. I just changed the code to handle this case -- now it prints "????" with an explanation on hover.
It would be nice to display a map of the close words -- but "mapping" a 300-dimensional space is tricky. I guess I could run another round of principle component analysis on the top 1000, and take the top 2 components.... But I don't think that's going to happen this week.
― David Turner (semantle), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 02:20 (two years ago) link
er, today's 996/1000 word.
― David Turner (semantle), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 02:22 (two years ago) link
61 today, and I cheated by using a thesaurus at the very end.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 02:41 (two years ago) link
I don't know why I have zero interest in posting my wordle results but I do feel like reporting on this one, I think because it's less predictable how hard it's going to be.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 02:42 (two years ago) link
Wordle doesn’t really need a strategy beyond doing the obvious whereas this most definitely seems to require one.
― Ferryboat Bill Jr. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 03:04 (two years ago) link
It's a bit like Scattergories in the way it tends to lock down your brain at a certain point, so that you know there are other words out there but your brain fixates on the ones you've already come up with and can't get past them.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 03:14 (two years ago) link
Yeah same
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 03:18 (two years ago) link
Yep
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 03:22 (two years ago) link
Cool. I just got it in 6, but that feels like beginner's luck!― jaymc, Monday, February 7, 2022 4:09 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― jaymc, Monday, February 7, 2022 4:09 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Yesterday I had the fortune of randomly guessing "lantern" for the second word (after "frog"), which led me to "candle" soon after.
Today I got to the closest match in about 100, but then got stuck. Finally decided to cheat by using a thesaurus, which got me to the finish line.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 03:56 (two years ago) link
63 guesses for me today - guesses included the 994, 997, 998 and 999th closest words - took a while to land on 1000, even when I could clearly see the pattern
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 04:08 (two years ago) link
when does the new word drop? Midnight? LIke the...like that other puzzle?
― Ferryboat Bill Jr. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 04:10 (two years ago) link
It would be really interesting to know the optimal, say, six words to start with to narrow down the possibilities.
― brisk money (lukas), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 04:24 (two years ago) link
107 words ... AND I used a thesaurus. The thing that broke it open for me was actually just free-associating. Not sure how I got from WHOOPSIE to ERROR but the answer came relatively quickly after that.
― brisk money (lukas), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 04:36 (two years ago) link
*************SPOILERS IN POST ABOVE SORRY*****************
will try to get a mod to fix
― brisk money (lukas), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 04:38 (two years ago) link
midnight utc it says
― koogs, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 04:40 (two years ago) link
got stuck on 940 jigsaw and 952 difficult, eventually started typing in random words from the top of the page! got to 999 but still had to hit the thesaurus, maybe it would have come to me eventually. take home lesson: words in the mid 900s are not necessarily at all helpful.
― ledge, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 09:38 (two years ago) link
(got it in 147. also confused by lukas' post as those two words are nowhere near the answer.)
― ledge, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 09:48 (two years ago) link
97 but I thought I was going to have to give up even with the help of a thesaurus. Got 4 words over 900 reasonably quickly but stalled out hard after that. This game is going to ruin my life. Which is a compliment!
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 12:23 (two years ago) link
lol the mod got creative with my post
― brisk money (lukas), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 12:36 (two years ago) link
Ha!
― ledge, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 12:43 (two years ago) link
81 today!I hit on 932/1000 but other synonyms didn't seem to get that high at all. (There is one missing from the dictionary btw, it didn't recognise marvellous .) Once I got in the final ballpark I didn't look up any synonyms (I don't really consider that cheating if it jogs your memory, as unless you're really close it's unlikely to be one of those maybe?) I got the 997 and 998 before hitting on it.
― kinder, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 16:50 (two years ago) link
Oh just realised it was probably a UK/US spelling thing in the 'missing' word.
― kinder, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 16:51 (two years ago) link
Today was my first time doing this. It took 56 goes to get the word. I didn't use a thesaurus.
I have no interest in playing Wordle. I think this is probably because of people posting their scores on Twitter, which was annoting and how I first heard of it, rather than any intrinsic qualities of the game itself. This, however, is great and I plan to play again. Thanks, David!
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 19:32 (two years ago) link
I gave up on today's and had genuine difficulty understanding why my relatively "closest" word (27.14) was any closer to the correct word than many of the much further away words. It seems like until you get a much "closer" guess, the reasons are not apparent for "closeness"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 19:41 (two years ago) link
Even so, some of the “closer” words are genuinely mystifying.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 19:49 (two years ago) link
Sometimes a word will be close in one form but far away in a different form, e.g. let's say cheater vs cheated vs cheating vs cheat could all have wildly different closeness scores.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 19:52 (two years ago) link
yes, and after i gave up i tried some synonyms of the winner that were "cold," while others were very close. and i couldn't find where my closest guess connected to the winner. anyway i got bored of wordle pretty quickly and this is way better.
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 20:46 (two years ago) link
Oof, today was a tricky one for me. Took me 127 and I did resort to thesaurus cheating at one point. It did give me an important semantic turn that I probably wouldn't have taken without it, though. I was stuck on 'hard', 'tough' etc, thesaurus gave me the idea to try 'critical', which then gave me a new line of enquiry.
I would say over ten of my tries were me getting frustrated and typing in things like 'shit', 'fuck', 'death', 'kill', so maybe I could claim 117 instead, heh.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 21:03 (two years ago) link
I must be at a hundred guesses now and I can’t get any closer than a similarity score just shy of 21. FML
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 10 February 2022 03:37 (two years ago) link
Yeah, this is killing me today.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 10 February 2022 04:08 (two years ago) link
Similarity stuck at 44 and I cannot think of any more synonyms
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 10 February 2022 04:09 (two years ago) link
got it finally. only took me 511 guesses.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 10 February 2022 04:25 (two years ago) link
I've got similarity of 24/26/34, all are closely related ... and no idea where to go next.
― brisk money (lukas), Thursday, 10 February 2022 04:38 (two years ago) link
Yeah this one was brutal.
― JoeStork, Thursday, 10 February 2022 06:10 (two years ago) link
probably put a couple hundred guesses into this fella during a boring work meeting and got no higher than 566 (or so) (my only “getting warmer@ guess also)
then had another go at home and got it in 8
have often found this with cryptic crosswords, where a change of scene will reshuffle the neurons and offer new insights
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Thursday, 10 February 2022 07:56 (two years ago) link
this game is impossible and makes no sense
― flopson, Thursday, 10 February 2022 09:11 (two years ago) link
stuck on 950/1000 and can't think where to go next, have free-associated my head off.
― ledge, Thursday, 10 February 2022 09:34 (two years ago) link
I've got a few 'warm' words, highest is 872/1000 and I'm also stuck. Might go back to it.
― kinder, Thursday, 10 February 2022 09:35 (two years ago) link
I've guessed 386 words ;_;
― kinder, Thursday, 10 February 2022 09:45 (two years ago) link
Oh God I just hit on it!
― kinder, Thursday, 10 February 2022 09:51 (two years ago) link
My highest guess beforehand kind of had two relevant meanings to it
― kinder, Thursday, 10 February 2022 09:53 (two years ago) link
Got there in 70.
― hamicle, Thursday, 10 February 2022 10:24 (two years ago) link
gave up, this game is too hard for me
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 10 February 2022 11:27 (two years ago) link
ok someone give me a hint > 950 (this would be a good feature to add!)
― ledge, Thursday, 10 February 2022 11:47 (two years ago) link
I’m at 936/1000, which is so annoyingly close but I’m totally stuck.
Yesterday’s wasn’t so bad, got it in 82
― Roz, Thursday, 10 February 2022 11:58 (two years ago) link
This game is maddening.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 10 February 2022 12:37 (two years ago) link
i got stuck at 673/1000 with domains which i thought was close, but that was the first one i've done, and after giving up and seeing the answer, i realise now i was miles from the secret word. the progress bars gave me false hope. can't see that i'd have guessed.
― .xlsm (P. Flick), Thursday, 10 February 2022 13:01 (two years ago) link
I didn't even get into the 900s. I browsed a few wiki pages for some of the words I had which gave me inspiration. No it's not cheating... (Most of the key terms I'd already tried).Also I think it's key to try different variations of words e.g. (not related to today's as far as I know) literate, literature, literal. Some are cold when others are warm.
― kinder, Thursday, 10 February 2022 13:25 (two years ago) link
I gave up after about 350 guesses. I can obviously see the connection between the answer and my closest guess license but i'm not sure how i could have got from one to the other without external inspiration - and I'd already tried all the nearest synonyms - or other than sheer luck guess one of the closer words. Still, I'll come back tomorrow for more punishment.
― ledge, Thursday, 10 February 2022 14:02 (two years ago) link
first time ever getting it today after playing for about a week... in 69 guesses O_o
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 10 February 2022 14:04 (two years ago) link
of my guesses, the one deemed literally furthest away make seems imo like it should be closer to the secret word? but im not (yet) a computer so idk ~
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 10 February 2022 14:09 (two years ago) link
139 today. early guesses in the 10s were all small things -- pea, corn, dust -- which led me astray.
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 10 February 2022 14:26 (two years ago) link
johnny fever, i thought the same thing. i hit on manufacture which was one of my warmest guesses, but your word got nowhere.
― kinder, Thursday, 10 February 2022 16:06 (two years ago) link
I'll get as far as 30 guesses before I can't resist and give up ha.
― Ste, Thursday, 10 February 2022 19:10 (two years ago) link
i like the concept but the space is too vast and the goal too opaque. restricting to 5 letter nouns might help
― flopson, Thursday, 10 February 2022 19:29 (two years ago) link
makes me think a fun application of GPT-3 would be to play 21 questions with it
― flopson, Thursday, 10 February 2022 19:30 (two years ago) link
I like the idea of the long game, chipping away at it throughout random times in the day though.
― Ste, Thursday, 10 February 2022 21:13 (two years ago) link
Today turned out to be brutally difficult -- it's just stuck off in its own arm of the semantic space. Sorry about that. Maybe tomorrow will be easier. Or maybe not!
― David Turner (semantle), Thursday, 10 February 2022 21:31 (two years ago) link
I still have yesterday's loaded and haven't solved it yet. Now worried about trying today's.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 10 February 2022 21:38 (two years ago) link
What's happening to the Similarity column? It's all out of order. I can't tell what's working and what's not.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 10 February 2022 21:47 (two years ago) link
I’m seeing similarity sorted properly, but with your most recent guess at the top, which is a very welcome feature!
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 10 February 2022 22:35 (two years ago) link
Wow, I don't have the patience to come up with 600-800 words, plus I find that my brain gets stuck and just keeps coming up with similar words to the ones I've already guessed, even where they only score like 25. I literally don't think I ever would have gotten today's.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 February 2022 22:48 (two years ago) link
spoiler alert: the word "penis" is slightly closer than the word "university" and slightly further away than "paint."
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 February 2022 22:51 (two years ago) link
LOL Wondering if starting with a seed word - say, the 1000th-closest word - would make the game more appealing. I’m fascinated by it & can’t wait for the next drop (after having pulled the plug on today’s) but the early stages are a bit of a slog tbh. I didn’t like the idea of hints, but maybe just a wee one? Say, calling for a hint gets you the word that’s one closer from the target word vs your highest guess, like if you had word 950 and you called for a hint you would get word 951. (And if you were stuck on 999, it would give you 998.) One per day.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 10 February 2022 23:10 (two years ago) link
I got it in 7.
well, at least that was the point I launched my computer over the balcony and put on Peacemaker instead
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 February 2022 23:12 (two years ago) link
86 today. I find there's a certain point when I just start entering words I know aren't going to be right.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 11 February 2022 00:19 (two years ago) link
gave up yesterday. not sure i ever would have gotten it. even after i knew the answer, it was hard to come up with similar words.
then got super lucky today and got it in 21.
― brisk money (lukas), Friday, 11 February 2022 04:48 (two years ago) link
84 today, gave up yesterday. I like the new addition of numbering the words and having the most recent guess come up at the top!
― Roz, Friday, 11 February 2022 06:51 (two years ago) link
Think I'm getting the hang of this, took me 80.
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Friday, 11 February 2022 07:46 (two years ago) link
Just trying today. I have the 'guess number' but the similarity isn't sorted by highest for me (Firefox). So it's not sorted by either similarity or guess number.
― kinder, Friday, 11 February 2022 08:50 (two years ago) link
oh sorry I get it. Most recent goes at the top no matter what but everything else sorted by similarity.
― kinder, Friday, 11 February 2022 08:51 (two years ago) link
Got it in 60 - are we all getting the hang of it or was it just easier today?
― ledge, Friday, 11 February 2022 08:56 (two years ago) link
136 for me, easier than yesterday but think I need more practice.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 11 February 2022 08:59 (two years ago) link
118!Yesterday's was more 'nebulous' I think - has connotations of law, science, application... bit more straightforward word today.
― kinder, Friday, 11 February 2022 09:08 (two years ago) link
Mr kinder got it in 33
― kinder, Friday, 11 February 2022 09:13 (two years ago) link
What is the strategy to adopt here? Is there a number of overall concepts that can be tried with a view to narrowing it down? I'm thinking of Roget's Thesaurus which is divided into six classes - existence, relation, quantity etc.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 11 February 2022 09:18 (two years ago) link
Had to give up yesterday and today. I'm impressed by those who got them both -- I doubt I would have even if I'd kept guessing for another hour. The possibilities are just so vast, frustration sets in after 100 cold guesses...
― Sam Weller, Friday, 11 February 2022 09:52 (two years ago) link
Is there a number of overall concepts that can be tried with a view to narrowing it down? I'm thinking of Roget's Thesaurus which is divided into six classes - existence, relation, quantity etc.
I tried it with the thesaurus subcategories that today's word appears in and they are all cold - I would guess they're too far away vertically, you need words that are more synonymous rather than more general, so it's just a case of blundering around till you hit on something.
― ledge, Friday, 11 February 2022 10:35 (two years ago) link
it's further complicated by the fact that, apparently, sometimes a direct synonym of one sense of the word can be cold.
― ledge, Friday, 11 February 2022 10:39 (two years ago) link
Got today's in 80. I don't think I'll ever be on super-low scores, as my tactic is to get as many data points as I can, rather than hoping to get lucky/be precise in a few guesses. Yesterday's was the first that made me give up, I got to 990 with INVENTIONS but couldn't make the leap.
I do like the new ordering system, but it was very confusing at first. How about adding a line space between the most recent guess and previous guesses?
― emil.y, Friday, 11 February 2022 11:08 (two years ago) link
42 today, was in the hundreds for the last couple
― devvvine, Friday, 11 February 2022 11:21 (two years ago) link
Found today's in 110 after skirting around it for ages.
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 11 February 2022 11:31 (two years ago) link
I've been struggling with this for a few days, but today I got it in 36.
My first non-cold guess was #14 (758/1000). I then did 20 more cold guesses before getting 943/1000 on #35. And then next guess I got it. Half satisfying, half a shrug of randomness.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 11 February 2022 12:01 (two years ago) link
70 today, felt like i steadily advanced on the target for oncd - previous goes have seen some pretty wild & uneven lurches towards the answer
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Friday, 11 February 2022 12:10 (two years ago) link
*once
Gave up again. FWIW, the closest word I got was "mechanical" which was 20, and then I just kind of got stuck. Once again, I don't get how mechanical is any closer to the word than anything else that I guessed, in fact some other words seem logically closer to me.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 11 February 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link
a score of 20 I mean
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 11 February 2022 15:56 (two years ago) link
oh hey cool i just started today! 206 baby. proud i didn't give up (almost did about... 180 times)
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 11 February 2022 16:00 (two years ago) link
scores in the 20s are pretty meaningless, i carry on banging random words in till i get in the top 1000 and often well beyond that.
― ledge, Friday, 11 February 2022 16:19 (two years ago) link
Since I rarely compute at the weekends I changed my system clock and played tomorrow's and Sundays ^_^ I got both, one somewhat quicker than the other.
― ledge, Friday, 11 February 2022 16:39 (two years ago) link
Whoa, got it in 27 today! Sheer luck that one of my first 10 words thrown at the wall hit close.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 11 February 2022 16:46 (two years ago) link
162! With the help of a thesaurus. I don’t know if I’ll ever get one of these without a crutch.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 11 February 2022 17:05 (two years ago) link
I gotta say Dave, I didn’t think this would get traction without adding a crutch but clearly it has some magnetism!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 February 2022 17:43 (two years ago) link
Adding the "getting close" indicator seems to be the thing that made it playable. I can't wait until I add the incomprehensible vector directionality indicator.
― David Turner (semantle), Friday, 11 February 2022 17:48 (two years ago) link
lol okay I went from like 30% to 100% that was a day.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 11 February 2022 17:52 (two years ago) link
Took me 97 guesses
― Kim, Friday, 11 February 2022 18:46 (two years ago) link
haha i keep giving up early, but I keep coming back to this sodding thing!
― Ste, Friday, 11 February 2022 20:27 (two years ago) link
yeesh, got to 959 in 11 guesses, then to 990 by 22, and now I'm up to 56 guesses and have gotten no closer, only filled in lower point words. I think it's going to be a stroke of luck for me to finally get this.
― chinavision!, Friday, 11 February 2022 22:48 (two years ago) link
This one took me 92. Once again I got to a sticking point and just started entering word after word, then walked away for an hour, came back and got it immediately.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 12 February 2022 01:54 (two years ago) link
These always take me over 100 moves but I'm not really trying for a low score.
Got a 2-letter word in the top 100 early on today. It had some different definitions that threw me off.
Bugs me that "and" isn't recognized as a word.
― adam t. (abanana), Saturday, 12 February 2022 02:15 (two years ago) link
found today’s an absolute bastard and gave up!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Saturday, 12 February 2022 05:43 (two years ago) link
Just got it in 136. Again with thesaural assistance, altho I snuck up on the final approach without. My 8th guess cracked the top 1000, but I didn’t get closer until 70 moves later. I honestly think that starting with word 1000 as a seed word wouldn’t make this game much easier.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 12 February 2022 05:55 (two years ago) link
134. Really tough going early on - think it gets easier once you get to the 900s, though not by much.
― Roz, Saturday, 12 February 2022 10:42 (two years ago) link
Found today's a nightmare and gave up after 248.
― Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 12 February 2022 11:48 (two years ago) link
Got this in about 60, got lucky by entering the right kind of word - so - early on for some reason, I don't normally go for those. an and to also not recognised as words.
― ledge, Saturday, 12 February 2022 12:38 (two years ago) link
Got up to 998 in 193 guesses, but it took me another 140 guesses to get the word from there. wtf.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 12 February 2022 13:02 (two years ago) link
131 today. Got bloody loads in the 'getting closer' range, but it took me a fair while to progress up to the final word.
― emil.y, Saturday, 12 February 2022 13:39 (two years ago) link
Today is killing me. I got my first 'warm' as my 10th guess, to 989 by my 78th guess. 100 tries later I have surely exhausted all related words! I have hit on the 998 and 999!
― kinder, Saturday, 12 February 2022 15:01 (two years ago) link
antonyms for my top words are still in the 900s which is puzzling me.
― kinder, Saturday, 12 February 2022 15:02 (two years ago) link
and synonyms are 'cold'.
― kinder, Saturday, 12 February 2022 15:03 (two years ago) link
OK I got it and had tried a variation of it ages ago and none of the 990+ words even mean the same thing!
― kinder, Saturday, 12 February 2022 15:15 (two years ago) link
Yeah I had 999, 989, 988, 986, and I still struggled for ages. A friend who found it before me told me that the tree I was barking up was an adjacent tree
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Saturday, 12 February 2022 18:47 (two years ago) link
Anyway, 188 with a gentle assist
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Saturday, 12 February 2022 18:49 (two years ago) link
Said friend's opinion about today's word, but also a general statement (after doing this for two days lol):
It seems like the association algorithm sucks at words that are more grammatically functional and less like, semantically fullLike nouns and verbs are probably easier
Spoilered just in case it's a clue
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Saturday, 12 February 2022 18:52 (two years ago) link
419 today, absolute nightmare
― devvvine, Saturday, 12 February 2022 20:07 (two years ago) link
I've been climbing steadily since I realized something around guess #130 or so! But now I'm running out of related words and not getting above 962. Like Absurdle, this sometimes feels like I'm having to hunt down every last possibility like trying to get glitter out of the sofa cushions.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Saturday, 12 February 2022 20:25 (two years ago) link
My bad I am now at 995 but this is getting very silly.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Saturday, 12 February 2022 20:33 (two years ago) link
In classic fashion my top two guesses are opposites of each other.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Saturday, 12 February 2022 20:35 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #15 in 24 guesses. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Easiest one yet.
― adam t. (abanana), Sunday, 13 February 2022 01:33 (two years ago) link
Got this one in 49. First one I didn’t give up on so far.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 13 February 2022 03:16 (two years ago) link
I have never yet guessed anything that wasn't a "cold"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 13 February 2022 03:22 (two years ago) link
Today’s was maddening for me - got thrown off by my first warm guess that led me in the completely wrong direction. Got it in 400 guesses lol
― Roz, Sunday, 13 February 2022 04:32 (two years ago) link
gave up again despite having a few guesses in the 99x range - these were all pretty unhelpful and sent had ne the exact wrong direction
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Sunday, 13 February 2022 05:27 (two years ago) link
Same. I was all backasswards on this one. Got 3 words in the 99Xs before 40, then just a futile rooting around thereafter. I don’t know how I would have ever got round to it.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 13 February 2022 06:09 (two years ago) link
Got it in 200 but should've been quicker, I got lots that suggested parts of a bird but then I got 'nose' higher than 'beak' and futzed around with facial features for ages.
― ledge, Sunday, 13 February 2022 08:10 (two years ago) link
stuck again, on 998, 995 and 994
― kinder, Sunday, 13 February 2022 10:40 (two years ago) link
after giving up on my first gl yesterday got it in 26 today.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 13 February 2022 11:03 (two years ago) link
56 for me. Best score I've had so far, but only just.
― emil.y, Sunday, 13 February 2022 14:12 (two years ago) link
Same as ledge. Had it down to two or three similar words, but the opposite nature misled me for a long time. Took 238 I think
― Kim, Sunday, 13 February 2022 17:04 (two years ago) link
Just going to apologize in advance for today's. It's stupidly hard for no good reason.
― David Turner (semantle), Monday, 14 February 2022 02:54 (two years ago) link
128 guesses and still cold ;_;
― Roz, Monday, 14 February 2022 03:58 (two years ago) link
Got to 999/1000 on turn 377 and I'm giving up for now.
― adam t. (abanana), Monday, 14 February 2022 04:24 (two years ago) link
I'm in the 990s...
― kinder, Monday, 14 February 2022 10:15 (two years ago) link
I got 991 after 28 guesses, 996 after 92, 999 with some cheating after 188. I've basically given up though I haven't clicked 'give up' yet.
― ledge, Monday, 14 February 2022 10:59 (two years ago) link
i gave up and honestly don't think i could've gotten it anyway. the closest word to the answer i could think of only had a similarity of 22! (ie am still not a computer)
― Roz, Monday, 14 February 2022 11:32 (two years ago) link
I gave up and even knowing the word couldn't get something close to come up.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Monday, 14 February 2022 12:56 (two years ago) link
Yesterday I got close with “beak” but then didn’t get a chance to finish. Not sure “tail” ever would have occurred to me.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 14 February 2022 13:04 (two years ago) link
David I'm curious what you're doing to try to remove stupidly hard words?
― brisk money (lukas), Monday, 14 February 2022 13:38 (two years ago) link
I am manually looking at the top thirty nearest words and seeing if they seem near to me. I just did this manually for the next week, and I'll probably build a UI to make it easy for the future.
― David Turner (semantle), Monday, 14 February 2022 15:04 (two years ago) link
I cheated. The word is a (an) adjective while most of the words I found near it were conjunctions or adverbs, i think.
― adam t. (abanana), Monday, 14 February 2022 15:38 (two years ago) link
I gave up based on this thread, but probably shouldn’t have. I was closer than I thought.
― Kim, Monday, 14 February 2022 16:01 (two years ago) link
I'll probably give up today, but I wondered if the word was hard because it was uncommon (technical language, for example) or because the nearest words are so far away?
― kinder, Monday, 14 February 2022 16:04 (two years ago) link
Kim, same here.
― Ste, Monday, 14 February 2022 16:05 (two years ago) link
I gave up, I lolled. Despite having four out of the top ten closest words and 20 of the top 100 I do not feel I was in any way close to getting it. I tried the first half dozen words that sprang to mind after the answer and only one of them - an antonym - was close, and only 589/1000.
― ledge, Monday, 14 February 2022 16:26 (two years ago) link
xp to kinder, i was wondering the same - it is not an uncommon word by any means.
― ledge, Monday, 14 February 2022 16:36 (two years ago) link
I had subsequent and second in my top three, so it might have happened!
― Kim, Monday, 14 February 2022 16:37 (two years ago) link
xp to ledge: same. I gave up despite having 999, 996, 993 and 991, none of which seem to bear any relation to the secret word.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 14 February 2022 18:17 (two years ago) link
Incidentally, I likewise had those ones.
― adam t. (abanana), Monday, 14 February 2022 18:41 (two years ago) link
After a billion guesses (600?) I had 996-999 and quite a few others at 980+ but was nowhere near getting that answer. Oof! But I knew what I was getting into with the disclaimer and I did decide to read it as a challenge...
I had resorted to more or less entering everything that was the same part of speech as 998/999 and/or in a similar slightly literary/legalese/oldfashioned register, but the answer wasn't the same part of speech and not so flowery either
Also, my first interpretation of "stupidly hard" was that an abbreviation or something else weird had crept in, so I tried a bunch of abbreviations, random two-letter strings, German words* and html/javascript keywords, and quite a few were accepted as guesses. Hope they don't come up as answers! (OK, they won't, because David is vetting answers from now on. Thanks, David!)
* The German words were because I was getting highish scores on a seam of words which are a bit archaic in English, e.g. thereupon, thereby, etc, but German uses the equivalent a lot - so it seemed easier to think of German ones, which I typed in out of desperation, and dabei, darauf, darüber are all in the dataset, along with a lot of personal pronouns. Not that any of this matters since they seem to score too low to rank against an English target word & it won't affect anyone's guesses, but it was interesting to me.
― a passing spacecadet, Monday, 14 February 2022 23:07 (two years ago) link
I'm scoring just under 30 and my top 4 words don't have anything in common with each other.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 00:20 (two years ago) link
This better be hilarious.
Got it in 134 guesses :)
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 00:53 (two years ago) link
got it in 53 guesses.
no idea how I stumbled on the right path, but once I found the common link it was matter of elimination
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 01:54 (two years ago) link
anybody who was playing more than two hours ago, though, I had a different word than you. it changed at 7 pm ET/6 pm CT
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 01:56 (two years ago) link
have lost interest in semantle
― Dan S, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 01:58 (two years ago) link
i coulda done it in under 50 in my first two guesses weren't "poop" and "pee"
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 01:58 (two years ago) link
I hate this game
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 02:23 (two years ago) link
I got it in 45. Better!
― Kim, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 02:32 (two years ago) link
My god Kim what does the inside of your brain look like?
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 02:53 (two years ago) link
320 guesses and I'm up to 991/1000 but I've danced all around my highest scoring answers and I'm out of ideas.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 02:55 (two years ago) link
got it in 166 today - fluked a jump from word #689 to THE WORD - happily all "warm" guesses were in fact pointing me in the right direction and my mind didn't seize up
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 03:09 (two years ago) link
I spent 5 minutes trying to guess answers after I knew the word and couldn't get anything else in the top 10.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 03:10 (two years ago) link
i tried this and got a couple in the top 10 - it's an interesting exercise! some words I would've imagined being pretty adjacent were way down the list
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 03:19 (two years ago) link
Dave informs me his user base is up to 76k?!?!?
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 03:27 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #17 in 22 guesses. Guess 8 was "hospital", very lucky.
― adam t. (abanana), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 03:28 (two years ago) link
Nice! 111 for me today, def easier than yesterday
― Roz, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 03:46 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #17 in 51 guesses.
yeah this one seemed easier (not complaining)
― brisk money (lukas), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 03:48 (two years ago) link
121, took 63 guesses to get anything green then i took the roundabout route of professions, military ranks, scientists, psychiatrists etc, medical professions so I could have taken a shortcut there, but felt like a satisfying solve.
― ledge, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 09:12 (two years ago) link
22 today. It's fascinating closing in on a vector.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 09:18 (two years ago) link
115 today. I agree with Fizzles. It's great closing in once you're in the right ballpark.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 09:52 (two years ago) link
lol, my first attempt and I just got a slight frisson of excitement getting a 20.16 after 20 odd much stone colder attempts, but I can see how the hunt could become addictive.
― calzino, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 09:59 (two years ago) link
At the moment my top guess, at 28.01, is 'penis'.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 10:24 (two years ago) link
Which I've just beaten with 'breast' (29.84)
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 10:26 (two years ago) link
which is quite funny knowing the answer, and that the word that really got me on the chase was helicopter at 22.36.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 10:30 (two years ago) link
75 today. Love it when those green bars pop up.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 10:32 (two years ago) link
OK, clitoris at 30.80. And yet I still can't shake the feeling I'm barking up the wrong tree
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 10:34 (two years ago) link
Yeah, it's hard to know where to go next after you've found clitoris.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 10:36 (two years ago) link
Onward and upward, boring old kidney at 33.76
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 10:41 (two years ago) link
OK, got it at 77.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 10:52 (two years ago) link
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, February 15, 2022 9:52 AM bookmarkflaglink
I think the bit where i started closing in was the difference between helicopter 22.36 and airplane 17.82, which caused me, after some mechanical guesses, to go for hospital
Interesting to note that both ill and sick were respectively 11.27 and 9.82.
Say if the hidden text stuff is annoying! but i find it all interesting enough to want to discuss some of the process!
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 12:09 (two years ago) link
my first top 1000 hitdiplomat 29.06 sent me on a bit of a wild goose chase but I hit pay gold with doctor 67.93. I must be good at this because it give me a very high score!
― calzino, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 12:18 (two years ago) link
by the time those NYT cunts have put wordle behind a paywall I'm hoping to be averaging regular sub 100 scores on this.
― calzino, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 12:28 (two years ago) link
36 today, ended with an incredibly satisfying series of three logical guesses that correctly closed the circle. david this is the best game
― devvvine, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 12:46 (two years ago) link
Got this one in 14. Also had a couple lucky early guesses.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 12:57 (two years ago) link
got today's in 30, made a leap from mechanic to the secret word
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 13:19 (two years ago) link
Yeah my son beat my score today by a few guesses, he came to the answer by a different route though. my guesses went from star to celebrity to leader and then other notable types of people while he found it with the multiple body parts to anatomy to doctor etc.
― Kim, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 13:36 (two years ago) link
I gave up on yesterdays because my 4 closest guesses were (iirc) PERHAPS, NEITHER, uhh maybe SILKILY??!, and EITHER. None of them were going to get me to the answer, in retrospect.
*cracks fingers* let's try today's.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 14:57 (two years ago) link
Today's in 64. It took me a while to start scoring, and then when I did all mine were eye related, so I was in a similar ballpark but far too specific!
I did give up yesterday but only because I had to go to bed after having the page up all day to try new things - yes, I am one of those people who took "it's too hard" as a challenge. I got green scores at 25, 990 at 54, and then pages upon pages of green, very few of which were related to the answer in a way I would understand. My highest match was IRONICALLY, ffs. I was working on a few different strands, one was conjunctions and old-timey constructions (I had a lot of fun with inasmuches and heretofores), one was a sort of "quirky" adverb strand (QUIXOTICALLY and NEBULOUSLY and BIZARRELY all scored green), and I got a few that could theoretically have led me to the answer (SUBSEQUENTLY and CONSEQUENTLY), however more obvious matches like AFTERWARDS and LASTLY were cold, so I wasn't looking in that direction.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 15:24 (two years ago) link
Honestly, I love this game despite the frustration at machine-calculated relations.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 15:28 (two years ago) link
I had pretty much the same strands, emil.y! Less exhaustively than yours, I imagine, tho I even ran through all the contractions thinking maybe that was what made it "difficult."
I mean...SILKILY???! lol it's inexplicable.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 15:29 (two years ago) link
Got it in 144! Possibly my best day yet tho I maybe took a funny route.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 20:17 (two years ago) link
Got it in 25 today, which is my best yet.
― hamicle, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 21:26 (two years ago) link
Took me ages but I got there. Highest was tendon] for a long time, then cardiac which led me to implant and scalpel
I have no idea how anyone does these in less than 100. I think I kind of enjoy typing random words into a computer text box... as my ILX posting history will demonstrate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― kinder, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 22:24 (two years ago) link
lol otm
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 23:07 (two years ago) link
I looked back on the "tail" one from the other day because I still had it open in a tab, and noted that while I got there from typing in "bird" then "flapping" then "wing" then various aeroplane/helicopter-related terms (it liked "propeller" and "rotor" quite a lot) and then typed "tail" while I was considering helicopter parts.
(I haven't spoiler-tagged these since it's not today's puzzle; sorry if anyone feels I should have done!)
Meanwhile, the names of various animals which have tails and particular noted behaviours thereof (dog, cat, pig) scored way less than bird, as did other things with tails (shirt and, uh, sperm), and things like "follow" and "stalk" which are synonyms of "tail" in some contexts scored cold too.
It's a mystery. But it's a fun mystery. Also kinder otm, such fun to type random words and follow weird tangents while imagining "the computer must be thinking really hard about why I chose this one!!"
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 23:16 (two years ago) link
xxp
I wouldn't feel bad at being crap at it, because you definitely aren't alone! But I feel like once you start getting a feel of how the word2vec data set works, then it will become even harder!
― calzino, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 23:18 (two years ago) link
Kinder--I took a totally different route! My first hits in the green were BARBER and BEAUTICIAN, which then led (eventually) to CLINICIAN, and then I was in the home stretch. Random!
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 00:08 (two years ago) link
Just got the new one! 12 minutes, 108 guesses, but this is definitely a speed record for me.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 00:14 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #18 in 133 guesses. Again, felt like a pretty linear process (rewardingly so) once I got the first green bar!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 00:20 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #18 in 159 guesses. Went on a weird tangent when I got a hit on online, and then pay in the top 100.
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 01:24 (two years ago) link
got it in 127. sadly took me 70 tries after I got my first green to realize I'd been going the opposite path that it wanted.
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 01:30 (two years ago) link
benefits was my first word approximating 20% similarity, and then pension was the first that got me green. all of my work jargon was helpful this time around.
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 01:32 (two years ago) link
53, my best yet - got lucky with a green on my 9th guess
― Roz, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 03:38 (two years ago) link
111, not too bad a showing. If I’d followed an instinct earlier I probably could have halved that, but I spent a long time chasing a dead end.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 05:24 (two years ago) link
Meanwhile, the names of various animals which have tails and particular noted behaviours thereof (dog, cat, pig) scored way less than bird
I'm guessing this is because 'bird' is a larger class than 'dog', 'pig', etc, and any text about parts of a bird or a particular species will use the same other words (beak, wings) whereas if it's about a cat it will mention paws and whiskers, if it's a pig it will mention trotters and snout, etc. 'Nose' was pretty high up though.
― ledge, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 09:31 (two years ago) link
From memory nose, snout and beak and maybe proboscis all scored pretty highly on that one - which had me totally stuck looking for “animal face parts” - didn’t think for a second to look at the other end!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 09:48 (two years ago) link
Got today's in 162 because I am an idiot.
― ledge, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 10:20 (two years ago) link
I got month in 65! Why did it take me another 100 guesses?
― ledge, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 10:23 (two years ago) link
Stuck on the third closest word. No clue.
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 10:51 (two years ago) link
ha my 13th word just hit 989...total luck
― Ste, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 11:30 (two years ago) link
I tried this for the first time and rage quit / gave up after 45 attempts all below 12.
― StanM, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 11:33 (two years ago) link
but now it's got interesting, i've had four guesses since and not got higher than that one. From the info it seems my best guess is 10th. And I'm absolutely stumped. and scared. because the perfectionist in me wants to guess this right on my next guess.
― Ste, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 11:43 (two years ago) link
this is my first time in the zone. so regular zone visitors, how many guesses on average do you usually take once you're very close?
― Ste, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 11:52 (two years ago) link
The data set is small at the moment but, usually, loads.
― ledge, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 12:22 (two years ago) link
Lol I did it for the first time yesterday and managed to get really close without having read the instructions and I thought similarity meant word composition ie combinations of letters rather than meaning
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 13:15 (two years ago) link
Weirdly I was able to make pretty good progress under this misapprehension
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 13:16 (two years ago) link
omg i got fucking burnt on this !!! haha
― Ste, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 14:45 (two years ago) link
87! I could have done it in fewer if I'd realised that I hadn't already tried the answer - I had daily, hourly, weekly, yearly, so I just assumed I'd tried the answer already, doh. (That is particularly spoilery hidden text, don't click if you haven't got it yet.)
regular zone visitors, how many guesses on average do you usually take once you're very close?
Bloody loads, honestly. But I get addicted to the dopamine hit of the green. Can't stop playing. Never stop playing. Give me that green score baby.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 15:09 (two years ago) link
Does anyone else resort to typing words in the intro blurb if their first few random guesses don't get anywhere near? It actually seems to be quite a productive method of initially guessing. I also do some previous answers as I know what word2vec thinks is close to them now.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 15:11 (two years ago) link
haha yes
― Ste, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 15:17 (two years ago) link
well 31 guesses, but I got sooo lucky, and then effed up, could have been less. I won't say anything, feared that I will mess up the spoiler text formatting tbf. I will reveal in a few days.
― Ste, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 15:20 (two years ago) link
Definitely done that, yes! Or played while half-watching TV and typed words from the TV in.
Once I'm quite close, it takes me anywhere between a few guesses to several hundred guesses. On average? No idea but probably tens. The mean is probably 100+ after a couple of outliers (including the one flagged with a warning) where I didn't get it for ages after hitting the 990s.
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 15:24 (two years ago) link
this game is fun!
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 15:49 (two years ago) link
219 for me. Did that thing of being completely stuck and out of guesses despite being on 977. Went back to it later and it only took a few more.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 16:16 (two years ago) link
I got up to 977/1000 and got fucked off + gave up and damn it I should have spent at least another half an hour, because was so nearly there. But it's all good experience for getting a feel for how this word2vec scores the word similarity. If I ever see anyone claiming today's wordle was hard I'm going to link this to them from now on, it's child's play in comparison.
― calzino, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 16:42 (two years ago) link
I managed it in 31 today. Seems like low similarity scores (<20) are words that might appear in the same sentence as the target word (how big of a content window is the algorithm using?), medium scores (21-40) are words that commonly appear adjacent to the target word, and medium/high scores (>40) start trending towards actual synonyms or members of the same semantic category?
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 17:42 (two years ago) link
sorry, context window not content
63 in the end
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 18:30 (two years ago) link
Took 43 to get a green
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 18:31 (two years ago) link
Solved the new semantle, #19, in 2 minutes, 36 guesses
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 17 February 2022 00:03 (two years ago) link
got it in 61. trimming the fat a little, but once again, I could have saved ten guesses if I pivoted earlier once I knew I was heading in the right direction.
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 February 2022 00:29 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #19 in 41 guesses. Most straightforward experience yet, still fun. First green was something crazy high like #969.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Thursday, 17 February 2022 00:48 (two years ago) link
I have now three other friends playing this
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 February 2022 00:55 (two years ago) link
26. far and away my best result, and looking at others' results, this seems a particularly easy one.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 17 February 2022 01:02 (two years ago) link
lol every time I'm like "damn, awesome, I'm getting better at this", I look and everybody else got it in like 10 guesses
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 February 2022 01:02 (two years ago) link
Oh don't worry I gave up on today's.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 17 February 2022 01:41 (two years ago) link
51, my best showing yet. I think the game is getting a little easier, altho practicing no doubt helps. 50-100 guesses is still a big commitment for most people (a coworker said I must be spending all day playing if I was guessing hundreds of words) so I feel like the current level strikes a good balance between being hard enough to be challenging but not so hard that it’s a chore for die-hards only.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 17 February 2022 01:42 (two years ago) link
didn't get yesterday's but don't feel that bad about it - for a while my only green was electricity. I tried water, gas, utilities and they were all cold. shrug.
― brisk money (lukas), Thursday, 17 February 2022 01:48 (two years ago) link
I've started to use a category approach, like....if I start to see my results improve, even if cold, I have really started to strain my brain to figure out if there's any linkage between them.
for instance, tonight's was consume, and pretty early on, I was in the 20% range, so still cold, but on the right track, and it was all food related guesses like chips, mashed, broccoli, burger. so originally I was guessing all food stuff, and then I said 'well obviously if it was a type of food, these wouldn't all be 20%s', so I started guessing words like meal, snack, which were also....in that range, but slightly higher.. And then I realized well shit, it's probably not about food, or the meal itself, but how it is ingested and within 5 guesses I had it. so the 'waste' was all the pointless 'food' guesses.
fuck shit ass shobadeedoowop
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 February 2022 02:04 (two years ago) link
food related guesses would have definitely helped in my case, all my warm guesses were destruction-based e.g. burn, destroy, drown so struggled with words like murder, kill, crash and accident until i got hungry and punched in 'ate' and from there i got it immediately.
170 today, but i think i'm getting the hang of it somewhat
― Roz, Thursday, 17 February 2022 02:51 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #19 in 33 guesses. https://semantle.novalis.org
I'm improving.
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 17 February 2022 04:45 (two years ago) link
30 but could have been quicker! First green was guess 15 with drink/981 then i messed around too long with synonyms for that (verb and noun) instead of trying related concepts.
― ledge, Thursday, 17 February 2022 08:50 (two years ago) link
Today's, #19 - 21 guesses.Was about to sack off this game but now I'm back in!
― kinder, Thursday, 17 February 2022 10:09 (two years ago) link
49. Had 997 on my 20th guess but got fed up of firing related guesses with no luck so resorted to a thesaurus.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 17 February 2022 10:15 (two years ago) link
Today's word is v close to a word that I got stuck on yesterday (but which barely had any relation to yesterday's word) so it was in my mind
― kinder, Thursday, 17 February 2022 10:21 (two years ago) link
This game reminds of that scene in Seinfeld where Kramer tries to guess Georges bank card password "Bosco". He straight away goes in for the food area and quickly hones in on chocolate. Then chases George out the apartment yelling all the wrong chocolate products.
― Ste, Thursday, 17 February 2022 11:11 (two years ago) link
Gave up on 200, got within 178 early on but every other guess was cold.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 17 February 2022 11:17 (two years ago) link
Got it in 60 with only one guess in the 900s. I've been too focused the last few days on related words (synonyms) instead of the underlying process, so that change helped.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Thursday, 17 February 2022 12:05 (two years ago) link
yeah I got super caught up on a specific vector of do - manage - require etc
― brisk money (lukas), Thursday, 17 February 2022 12:35 (two years ago) link
Got this one in 19, but very lucky again
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 17 February 2022 12:56 (two years ago) link
In 16 rather. I had a bunch of cold guesses (26 was the highest) and then I randomly hit on a super close word that made it easy.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 17 February 2022 12:59 (two years ago) link
Sigh. I just spoiled today's puzzle (#19) for myself because I un-hid Neando's post thinking it was about yesterday's. Using the puzzle number is more useful than I had realized because it changes in the evening during prime "working on stuff" time.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 17 February 2022 13:58 (two years ago) link
The page also shows yesterdays word, so be weary of that too
― Ste, Thursday, 17 February 2022 14:07 (two years ago) link
But you can't play previous days' games.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 17 February 2022 14:22 (two years ago) link
I think someone upthread said they'd found a way of doing it
― Ste, Thursday, 17 February 2022 14:23 (two years ago) link
or i'm telling big fat fibs
Oh maybe you can do it by changing the system clock idk
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 17 February 2022 14:26 (two years ago) link
oh that could have been it, I guess they wouldn't see the new page with the answer then
― Ste, Thursday, 17 February 2022 14:30 (two years ago) link
Yeah, if you leave the tab open, it's still operational the next day.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 17 February 2022 14:52 (two years ago) link
212 today. Got to 997/1000 very early, pretty much at random, but was struggling for a bit to nail it.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 February 2022 17:01 (two years ago) link
#19 took me 193. I genuinely thought I was going to get a really low score, but it turned out my green guesses were related to creation (PRODUCE, DISTRIBUTE, SYNTHESIZE, GENERATE), when I needed things more related to destruction (DIGEST, EAT). The key to my turn was actually scoring high with DEFECATE, hehehe. Got it fast after that.
― emil.y, Thursday, 17 February 2022 17:57 (two years ago) link
8th guess botches!
― plax (ico), Thursday, 17 February 2022 18:03 (two years ago) link
16 on puzzle #19!
My best yet and feels like less of a fluke than my previous best, where after getting 15-20% on "person" I typed in a random profession which turned out to be half-connected to the answer. (Even then I spent a while going through the wrong half of the concept and guessing other related professions.)
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 17 February 2022 18:48 (two years ago) link
51 today
a relative saunter
― Number None, Thursday, 17 February 2022 20:13 (two years ago) link
This one (#20) took me 117, but the solution actually popped into my mind much earlier and then popped out again, so I convinced myself that I had already guessed it and didn't try it for ages.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 18 February 2022 00:20 (two years ago) link
#20 took me 74 - got to green relatively quickly and then spent an absolute fuckload of time (and probably 40+ attempts) racking my brain for Perry Mason words - there are an awful lot of 'em!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Friday, 18 February 2022 00:43 (two years ago) link
fuck fuck fuck.
got it in 143. but I was...once again, in the right ballpark by like 80. I went through every courtroom related word imaginable too.
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 February 2022 00:52 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #20 in 117 guesses. https://semantle.novalis.org/Guess 23 was sentence which got me to the top 10, then I futzed around trying every related word I could think of.
― adam t. (abanana), Friday, 18 February 2022 01:28 (two years ago) link
This was a weird one for me because I only had three guesses in the green before I solved it, but I had more than 100 completely cold guesses.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 18 February 2022 01:44 (two years ago) link
it was the opposite for me!
I solved it in 70 but 38 were green guesses - it was pretty clear what the ballpark was, just a matter of hitting the right term
― Roz, Friday, 18 February 2022 01:56 (two years ago) link
ok so i have a query and maybe someone with word2vec smarts can help me out and sorry if it's totally dumb - but in #20 the trail leading to the target word was very courtroom-based, which is fine - but in this case the word itself isn't exclusively a "court" word - like, it's a word with general meaning that i guess is used most commonly in a courtroom context, esp in media - but words like "implore" and "beg" i would consider very similar in meaning, but these are way down the list - does that mean that being 'usage adjacent' is more significant to the dataset than being 'meaning adjacent'?
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Friday, 18 February 2022 01:56 (two years ago) link
Mr semantle I love it. Probably too niche to look at but doesn't work on qutebrowser. Submit button doesn't seem to do anything.
― You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. (hugo), Friday, 18 February 2022 02:55 (two years ago) link
does that mean that being 'usage adjacent' is more significant to the dataset than being 'meaning adjacent'?
I'm not an expert (I've taken a couple classes on computational linguistics and played around with Python NLP libraries) but word embedding (which is the essence of what Word2vec does) is about inferring semantic relationships between words based on what words they appear next to and how often in a large corpus... the algorithm correctly inferring meaning adjacency is sort of the goal.
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Friday, 18 February 2022 03:17 (two years ago) link
(Semantle #20 took me... 201 guesses)
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Friday, 18 February 2022 03:19 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #20 in 46 guesses. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Which is worse than it sounds, given that my first guess was trial. Wall of green guesses.
― brisk money (lukas), Friday, 18 February 2022 04:26 (two years ago) link
92 today.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 18 February 2022 04:34 (two years ago) link
so frustrated with yesterday’s: followed a hook from “lasting” through “sustainable” up to “dispose” “burn” “calories” “incinerate” which got me in the green, the last one 700 odd and then just got stuck. didn’t turn it round from waste to the consumption part.
― Fizzles, Friday, 18 February 2022 07:53 (two years ago) link
107. I'm gradually improving at this but still haven't done it in less than a hundred ffs! But consider me addicted to the green rush!
― calzino, Friday, 18 February 2022 08:59 (two years ago) link
I was sent on a red wild goose herring and did not could.
― StanM, Friday, 18 February 2022 09:05 (two years ago) link
Up to 306 so far today, I suppose I've avoided the feeling of having finished wordle, quordle, semantle and worldle and having nothing left to do.
― ledge, Friday, 18 February 2022 09:18 (two years ago) link
^^all that plus spelling bee and nyt crossword lol
aside from the xword and tough days on semantle, most of these take less than ten minutes each tbf
― Roz, Friday, 18 February 2022 09:27 (two years ago) link
stuck around late 900s for quite a few guesses now hmmm
― nxd, Friday, 18 February 2022 09:50 (two years ago) link
I got a 996 answer and still ended up giving up, after 50 more tries. Ruined my day!
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 18 February 2022 09:55 (two years ago) link
ha i was at 996 too got it in 62 in the end :)
― nxd, Friday, 18 February 2022 09:56 (two years ago) link
You found it in 553!
Had mind (296) fairly early and got stuck on that for about 250 guesses, then psychiatrist (615) for another 100, then a slow crawl up from cries (702). Weird that 'cries' and 'calls' are up in the top 1000, 'cry' and 'call' aren't but the word itself is singular.
― ledge, Friday, 18 February 2022 10:00 (two years ago) link
997 but yup :(
― Number None, Friday, 18 February 2022 11:24 (two years ago) link
urgh, one average green out of 100 guesses. Gave up.
― Ste, Friday, 18 February 2022 11:34 (two years ago) link
Im so good at this game. I got it in 37 today after 2 green
― plax (ico), Friday, 18 February 2022 13:51 (two years ago) link
obviously luck has a lot to do with it
you've got to be bare forensic as well, innit! I think I need to slow down and be a more selective and thoughtful with my guesses instead of rapid firing them off like a maniac.
― calzino, Friday, 18 February 2022 13:57 (two years ago) link
yeah i do that, and stupid things like guessing a word way too similar to one I already did that didn't compare well.
― Ste, Friday, 18 February 2022 14:05 (two years ago) link
You have to do that though - 'cry' nope, 'crying' nope, 'cries' yeah, fuck you.
― ledge, Friday, 18 February 2022 14:17 (two years ago) link
Im so good at this game. I got it in 37 today after 2 greenwas watching this thread like a hawk to see if anyone would beat me, damn you
― brisk money (lukas), Friday, 18 February 2022 14:29 (two years ago) link
Dave, a leaderboard would be wise
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 February 2022 15:01 (two years ago) link
(daily, weekly, lifetime)
41! My best so far.
― emil.y, Friday, 18 February 2022 15:49 (two years ago) link
Finally got #20, after 119 guesses! Wall of green otm, I had so many close attempts.
This game is so much more of a head-fucker than all the other word games precisely because it's so random from day to day! It kind of defies the attempt to strategize or get better at it ime.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 18 February 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link
not necessary at all but I’d kinda like user stats too - wanna know what my average guess count is
― Roz, Friday, 18 February 2022 17:08 (two years ago) link
had about ten guesses in the 900s having reached the top 1000 v rapidly but damned if i can get any further.
― Fizzles, Friday, 18 February 2022 17:11 (two years ago) link
― Fizzles, Friday, 18 February 2022 17:16 (two years ago) link
i had to take 5 minute pauses between guesses to refresh my brain at that point.
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 February 2022 17:33 (two years ago) link
I think you have to think less of the similarity of words and more the differing contexts they're likely to be used. That's my guess anyway. Like mist might be closer to perfume than dew
― plax (ico), Friday, 18 February 2022 18:10 (two years ago) link
if you get too much of a fixed idea when start hitting those greens it can end up costing lots of bad guesses, you've still got keep it open but not so open that you are veering away. If that makes any sense.
― calzino, Friday, 18 February 2022 19:00 (two years ago) link
ico otm
― Ste, Friday, 18 February 2022 19:16 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #21 in 71 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 22.35. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #42. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 28.09 (601/1000).
Well there you have it. Definitely still feeling my way into how the algorithm groups words - trying to be both more and less literal if that makes sense. Sometimes feel like I am being trained in a new mode of language processing, which I guess I am.
Need to learn to be a bit more parsimonious with my guesses if I want to match some of the enviably low score around here though. Something quite compulsive about pouring words into the box until you get a close one tho - fast and furious guessing kind of matches the mental rummage through all the words that are somehow in my head.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Saturday, 19 February 2022 00:21 (two years ago) link
agree it's more fun to just spam it with guesses, took me 134 for #21 (didn't get a green until guess #62)
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Saturday, 19 February 2022 01:54 (two years ago) link
56! woohoo
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Saturday, 19 February 2022 02:14 (two years ago) link
ooh i like that the Share feature now includes more details:
I solved Semantle #21 in 56 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 17.90. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #32. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 24.46. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Saturday, 19 February 2022 02:15 (two years ago) link
the weird part of today is the thing that got me on the right path was, at #17, I guessed a word based on my previous guesses, that got me to almost 20%. I didn't make green until I considered a secondary definition of the word i played at #17, rather than the primary definition. which got me onto the green. and then from there, I was stuck for a bit until I considered the word that got me into green from a different perspective, and from there it was basically an open goal.
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Saturday, 19 February 2022 02:19 (two years ago) link
As close as 996 and feeling stuck.
― brisk money (lukas), Saturday, 19 February 2022 08:08 (two years ago) link
I'm stuck on 994.
― ledge, Saturday, 19 February 2022 08:43 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #21 in 111 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.59. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #57. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 15.25. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― Roz, Saturday, 19 February 2022 09:10 (two years ago) link
I'm stuck on 993 in 84 guesses, not going to crack this in under a hundred today.
― calzino, Saturday, 19 February 2022 10:56 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #21 in 104 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.54. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 30.40 (771/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
ffs! but also yeah!
― calzino, Saturday, 19 February 2022 11:12 (two years ago) link
Beginners luck I thinkI solved Semantle #21 in 77 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.48. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #32. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 36.08 (940/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― mardheamac (gyac), Saturday, 19 February 2022 11:22 (two years ago) link
73 today. Kicking myself afterwards.
― Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 19 February 2022 12:13 (two years ago) link
#21 in 34 guesses. My best ever. Could have been 25 but I forgot to try different forms of the word instead of synonyms.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Saturday, 19 February 2022 12:52 (two years ago) link
34 is impressive! I made the same mistake, except I ended up getting it in 110 guesses. I hit upon word 948/1000 on my 39th guess and proceeded to rack up about 30 green words before it occurred to me that the secret word might be a different part of speech. my 102nd guess was the adjectival form of the secret word. on the bright side, I now have a sizeable lexicon of words that I might want to use if I ever decide to publish a book about optical illusions
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Saturday, 19 February 2022 12:59 (two years ago) link
I did it in 230, no idea how you guys are getting these so easily. One thing I did notice is that UK spellings now automatically seem to be "corrected" to US spellings and counted as guesses.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 19 February 2022 14:30 (two years ago) link
Finally got it in about 300 (two attempts on different devices). Was in the right area (religion) but my closest were saint and savior so I was thinking too much along the lines of holiness, goodness, protector.
― ledge, Saturday, 19 February 2022 14:53 (two years ago) link
it was feat that opened it up for me.
― calzino, Saturday, 19 February 2022 15:48 (two years ago) link
Mine was doodling around the area of rarity, obscurity, etc. decided to spiral off from rarity and went with wonder (warm), marvel (warmer), some other word I now can’t recall, then finally the word itself.
― mardheamac (gyac), Saturday, 19 February 2022 16:12 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #21 in 140 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.52. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 6.79.
lol at my penultimate guess being so wildly out, and it taking me so long after getting green at #5. Most of my hits were medical-based, it took me ages to get any warm hits that were kind of religious, so my brain was not on the right track at all for the longest time.
― emil.y, Saturday, 19 February 2022 16:13 (two years ago) link
Got it in 59. First green word was gasp, then I got to feat, then magic, which got me stuck on a bunch of words related to magic shows and audience reactions and so on.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 19 February 2022 16:20 (two years ago) link
One new thing (I think) is that if you misspell a word, it still counts it as one of your guesses and gives you a ranking for it. I was going fast and wasted two guesses on typos.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 19 February 2022 16:22 (two years ago) link
Dave: it's likely to need some kind of moderation (ugh), but a bare bones chat app on the page would likely engender this kind of conversation among all users...
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 19 February 2022 16:49 (two years ago) link
also there's apparently a reddit but i think you knew thathttps://www.reddit.com/r/Semantle/
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 19 February 2022 16:50 (two years ago) link
Just got my friends onto it and they're trying today's, they've been stuck on marvellous, amazing, breakthrough, eureka. After 200 guesses they've got onto religion but despite being Christian haven't made the link yet. It's pretty entertaining watching them try and figure it out!
― ledge, Saturday, 19 February 2022 16:52 (two years ago) link
I don't know if I'm the typical type of user, but I wouldn't use an on-page chat. Too much possibility of random assholes and spoilers. And keeping stuff simple seems like the best idea to me.
― emil.y, Saturday, 19 February 2022 16:53 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #21 in 132 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.82. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 20.87.
My route was baby, then medical terms, then deliverance which put me on the right track.
― adam t. (abanana), Saturday, 19 February 2022 16:58 (two years ago) link
I'm desperate. I've got a whole screen of green but where is this going?? On #105.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Saturday, 19 February 2022 16:59 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #21 in 88 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 21.53. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 41.68 (985/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/This one was a little tricky, despite the fact I solved it in under 100. My brain just wasn’t going there until I started plugging in all the related words I could find.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 19 February 2022 20:03 (two years ago) link
37 today, personal best!
― nxd, Saturday, 19 February 2022 22:06 (two years ago) link
ugh 92 today
― plax (ico), Saturday, 19 February 2022 22:48 (two years ago) link
I'd say the magic's gone, kid. But tbf anything less than a hundred is actually pretty good!
― calzino, Saturday, 19 February 2022 23:11 (two years ago) link
Every day around three I start counting down the minutes until the new semantle arrives.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 19 February 2022 23:26 (two years ago) link
Ahahahaha I gave up and checked the answer and now I'm so annoyed after spending all day at 994 but unable to just get all the way there. I was on the wrong track for a while because I got high scores with NIGHTMARE, DREAM, and TRAGEDY, which seemed to lead another direction.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Sunday, 20 February 2022 00:07 (two years ago) link
On #21 I got a (low) green on my 2nd guess, then doubled the score on my 3rd by typing its antonym, which was very exciting but didn't help me at all in the end, as I took 399 guesses to get the word. Oh well!
I got stuck in a very similar rut to in orbit, stuck in the 800s with tragedy, calamity, misfortune and similar for ages. Even when I branched out to religion via rapture & armageddon it took me a long old time.
It's past midnight so I could do #22 now but I probably should go to bed at a somewhat reasonable time instead.
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 20 February 2022 00:19 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #22 in 134 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.54. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #9. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 2.12. https://semantle.novalis.org/
satisfying, i usually tap out once im over 100ish or so guesses. had prob two dozen guesses in the top 90% for this one
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 20 February 2022 00:29 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #22 in 60 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.50. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #20. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 2.97. https://semantle.novalis.org/
I couldn't wait until the morning, my first half decent score.
― calzino, Sunday, 20 February 2022 00:38 (two years ago) link
for a dyslexic who frequently misses words when typing and is a complete idiot. I feel like I'm getting quite good at this!
― calzino, Sunday, 20 February 2022 00:44 (two years ago) link
gave up on #22 despite having many many little green lines including 998/1000 - couldn't quite find that last mental zag, just kept zigging
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Sunday, 20 February 2022 01:13 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #22 in 25 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.12. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 21.00. https://semantle.novalis.org/
woo! also probably never topping this score again lol. The solution was imo very similar to the only green word I got, so I thought at most it would be another green - wasn’t expecting it to be actual word
― Roz, Sunday, 20 February 2022 01:23 (two years ago) link
when I get to 25 I'm going to bake a cake
― calzino, Sunday, 20 February 2022 01:28 (two years ago) link
Incredible feat!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Sunday, 20 February 2022 01:29 (two years ago) link
fuck this sucks
I solved Semantle #22 in 173 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.52. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #22. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 21.53 (113/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 February 2022 01:55 (two years ago) link
i had cleared 30% similarity by guess 32, and just kept grinding and couldn't get the precision needed to find the right word.
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 February 2022 01:57 (two years ago) link
gah, this one took me 208.
I'm starting to know when I've won, even before the screen changes - I start to get a sense for which words are too close to what I've already entered, and then when I hit on a word with the right amount of distance, and connections to everything I've typed in so far, it just feels right.
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 20 February 2022 02:08 (two years ago) link
389 for #22. Synonyms, man.
― adam t. (abanana), Sunday, 20 February 2022 02:26 (two years ago) link
I gave up at 104 but I had been at 998 and 997 since the 50s.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Sunday, 20 February 2022 03:21 (two years ago) link
I also said the word out loud and thought I entered it, but had not.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Sunday, 20 February 2022 03:22 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #22 in 85 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.10. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 38.83 (988/1000).…I started guessing synonyms around my 75th guess and zeroed in on it!
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Sunday, 20 February 2022 03:27 (two years ago) link
Personal stats are likely at some point -- they're in the top-five or so requested features. A leaderboard is not happening, because (a) the game is so deeply unfair and (b) it would be immediately filled up by cheaters, and (c) it's about the journey. But also it would require me to store stuff on the server, and that sort of programming is less fun than my day job.
― David Turner (semantle), Sunday, 20 February 2022 13:01 (two years ago) link
"it's about the journey"
yep.
― calzino, Sunday, 20 February 2022 13:12 (two years ago) link
101 today, got to 970 within 30 but struggled after that. Think I put too much weight on synonyms, when I put an antonym in got it within 6 guesses.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 20 February 2022 13:46 (two years ago) link
Been stuck on 992 for 150 guesses, I have so much green pointing in one direction but either that's hugely misleading or there's a synonym (or antonym) that's eluding me.
― ledge, Sunday, 20 February 2022 14:55 (two years ago) link
Gave up today, frustratingly was 10 words away on my 28th guess but I wandered off the correct track, gah.
― mardheamac (gyac), Sunday, 20 February 2022 15:31 (two years ago) link
Ooooh got it in 66! That makes a nice change from recent hopelessness.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Sunday, 20 February 2022 15:35 (two years ago) link
Very hungover, took me 205. Had a look at the nearest words and this one stood out as quite WTF: 872 footcandles 28.76 ?!?!?!
― emil.y, Sunday, 20 February 2022 16:44 (two years ago) link
Forgot to do #21. Just got #22 in 14.
― hamicle, Sunday, 20 February 2022 16:54 (two years ago) link
I was very close on #20 but never got it.
I solved Semantle #22 in 100 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.84. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 9.51. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 20 February 2022 16:55 (two years ago) link
emil.y that's hilarious! And..........inexplicable? Computers wtf.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Sunday, 20 February 2022 17:03 (two years ago) link
the thing I'm realizing about synonyms is that I often tend to guess ten dollar words when the answer is a 5 cent word.
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 February 2022 17:56 (two years ago) link
have to remind myself the answer is more likely to be simple, not shit like "sesquipedalian".
I was so mad yesterday because I knew exactly what the answer was looking forward, but I kept missing the synonym because I was getting too cutesy with it and the answer was of course much easier than what i was guessing.
ffs I guessed echelon, percentile, quadrant before I could think oh shit, "level"
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 February 2022 17:58 (two years ago) link
― David Turner (semantle), Sunday, February 20, 2022 8:01 AM bookmarkflaglink
that's awesome! and agree on the leaderboard, that would actually hurt my enjoyment of it a little. thank you for this new daily addiction :)
I solved Semantle #22 in 430 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.40. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 29.43 (895/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/And I cheated with a thesaurus. Was stuck on low (992) forever, tried all variations and antonyms, had a wall of green that all pointed towards ranking / grading. I never considered equality, though I've just tried 'equal' and it's cold, wtf. What were some words higher than 992?
― ledge, Sunday, 20 February 2022 19:28 (two years ago) link
surely using a thesaurus isn't cheating? lol I'm a total cheat if that is true. And sometimes I think using a thesaurus actually makes it harder in some ways!
― calzino, Sunday, 20 February 2022 19:33 (two years ago) link
well maybe not harder but it will send you in many more wrong directions
― calzino, Sunday, 20 February 2022 19:35 (two years ago) link
i used one last night but that was the first time and I also had a friend venting to me in a crisis so I couldn't focus like normal
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 February 2022 19:36 (two years ago) link
it did cause me to waste guesses I woldn't have otherwise wasted as well
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 February 2022 19:37 (two years ago) link
I think my definition of cheating would be using a thesaurus that was constructed using the same word algorithm semantle uses. But a human constructed thesaurus is a potentially useful tool if you use it well, but not a cheat.
― calzino, Sunday, 20 February 2022 19:41 (two years ago) link
I agree tbh. I mostly find it easier to just go from my own brain. it actually caused me to blow 30 guesses yesterday lol, and the thesaurus didn't pick u pthe right word.
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 February 2022 19:59 (two years ago) link
Ah you can now see the top words after winning! The top ten is pretty bonkers imo and I'm not sure it would have helped me, even with a thesaurus.
― ledge, Sunday, 20 February 2022 20:04 (two years ago) link
good choice for baiting the hook for new players and for teaching people how to THINK LIKE A COMPUTER
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 20 February 2022 20:06 (two years ago) link
hey dave you should post pictures of your pottery in here as it is fucking amazing
Pottery! Yes! (Though maybe take it over to the 'forks throws pottery' thread so as not to go too far off-topic here?)
― emil.y, Sunday, 20 February 2022 21:08 (two years ago) link
oh yeah, i forgot dave is not an ilxor exactly:forks throws pottery (and maybe you do too?) - An ILX Ceramics ThreadMany of the pieces in there are joint things with Dave! It's an embarrassing showcase, especially when i scroll up.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 20 February 2022 21:16 (two years ago) link
TOday's took 131 but I did it quickly. First green word was therefore - no real idea why. Got kind and grade and type quite early
― kinder, Sunday, 20 February 2022 23:31 (two years ago) link
holy fucking shit - I did it in 35!
I solved Semantle #23 in 35 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 22.96. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 7.64. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― calzino, Monday, 21 February 2022 00:17 (two years ago) link
I got very lucky with try quite early
― calzino, Monday, 21 February 2022 00:24 (two years ago) link
In a sea of 900s, still can't get it
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 21 February 2022 00:42 (two years ago) link
This is so frustrating - I have 991, 992 and 995 and I still can't get it
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 21 February 2022 00:52 (two years ago) link
same... i got 995 on my 25th guess, but can't close in more than 100 guesses later
― Roz, Monday, 21 February 2022 01:05 (two years ago) link
my god, this was brutal
I solved Semantle #23 in 166 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.66. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #110. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 7.21. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 February 2022 01:06 (two years ago) link
110 guesses to even crack the top 1000. I was completely off base until then. and even after that I was off base again.
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 February 2022 01:07 (two years ago) link
Hit 337/1000 after 50 guesses, gave up after 70.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 21 February 2022 01:09 (two years ago) link
i "solved" #22 in 7 guesses... just got lucky with a random guess
― micah, Monday, 21 February 2022 01:11 (two years ago) link
i was solidly hitting in the top 1000 early every one up until this, I started to feel like an imposter a bit
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 February 2022 01:18 (two years ago) link
Second time I've given up despite being in the 990s
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 21 February 2022 01:20 (two years ago) link
finally got it in 194.
for the longest time, my highest words were provide, give and receive which made me think about gifting or trading terms like deliver, grant, and supply, and ten thousand similar synonyms. very misleading.
― Roz, Monday, 21 February 2022 01:27 (two years ago) link
Exactly the same with me! But I didn't have the patience to go to 194!
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 21 February 2022 01:28 (two years ago) link
yeah or the time! it can definitely chew up the minutes this game - anyway i got stuck in pretty much the same dead end as Roz - yesterday i had a similar experience where all my green words were kind of climbing movement-related, like 'elevate' and 'inspire' and 'promote' - then i got 'threshold' which was #997 i think, and my brain just locked up - i would never have got to 'level' in a million years
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Monday, 21 February 2022 03:30 (two years ago) link
I am hopelessly stuck on this one; I'm at 995/1000 right now and I think I must be going in the wrong direction with my guesses but cannot figure out where else to go.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 21 February 2022 03:40 (two years ago) link
995 feels like it should unlock everything, but didn't for me!
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 21 February 2022 03:47 (two years ago) link
in case you guys want a hint (and don't worry, it's not a spoiler word) - if you managed to get guess 994, that is a better indicator than 995
― Roz, Monday, 21 February 2022 03:50 (two years ago) link
ah dammit sorry!! that was meant to be hidden - fuck you bbcode
64, got lucky today. After 60 cold guesses, I landed on something close quite by chance.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 21 February 2022 09:16 (two years ago) link
Semantle is punishing us for stealing English vocabulary from all and sundry
― brisk money (lukas), Monday, 21 February 2022 12:17 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #23 in 224 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.72. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 6.81. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Turn 6 was act at 209/1000, shortly followed by enact in the top 100. Which led to me trying a bunch of legal terms again.
― adam t. (abanana), Monday, 21 February 2022 16:57 (two years ago) link
Average similarity per guess might be an interesting stat to see afterward.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Monday, 21 February 2022 17:35 (two years ago) link
Oof, took me 185, and it was a bit of a stab-in-the-dark guess that I genuinely didn't expect to be correct (I was on the same track as Roz). I was thinking I'm getting worse at this game, but seems like aside from a couple of v low scores most people struggled with this one?
― emil.y, Monday, 21 February 2022 17:50 (two years ago) link
Yeah I'm struggling too, 158 guesses and can't get past 995 - and that was with help from my wife after being stuck on 992. I did enjoy last week when it seemed I was getting good at this.
― ledge, Monday, 21 February 2022 19:33 (two years ago) link
lol how on earth did I manage to do it in 35 last night. Pure drunk luck obv!
― calzino, Monday, 21 February 2022 19:36 (two years ago) link
I gave up - I think if you have a bunch of close guesses in the same area but have really exhausted all available synonyms etc there's no choice but to start from scratch. Or just give up.
― ledge, Monday, 21 February 2022 19:52 (two years ago) link
It's not just about synonyms though is it, otherwise it would be piss easy with a thesaurus once you'd hit green. Rather, it's about related concepts.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 21 February 2022 20:45 (two years ago) link
True, that definitely seems to be the way it goes - I'm still quite surprised though that e.g. search is nowhere near today's.
― ledge, Monday, 21 February 2022 21:22 (two years ago) link
this is precisely why using a thesaurus can sometimes be useful, and at other times a total hindrance.
― calzino, Monday, 21 February 2022 21:39 (two years ago) link
yesterday it got me to the finish line instantly, because the terrible tv show that was on was blocking me from thinking of the one word I needed.
the other day it fucked me
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 February 2022 21:50 (two years ago) link
Argh! I was so close at 175 guesses and word #996. Just didn’t get there in time.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 00:02 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #24 in 43 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.88. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #25. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 27.37 (817/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 00:10 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #24 in 32 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.01. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #14. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 15.80. https://semantle.novalis.org/
YEAH MOTHERFUCKER
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 00:21 (two years ago) link
It's happening again... I've got 998 and 996 and I still can't get it
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 00:25 (two years ago) link
Finally, with 67 guesses. Having got 998 at guess 15. Searching for synonyms can really put you off your game, but I'm struggling to work out what's the right strategy.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 00:36 (two years ago) link
Oh I gave up today. Not that the word was obscure or anything, but the synonyms for the answer scored low and didn't point the way.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 00:52 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #24 in 24 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 24.16 (492/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 6.45.
This will never happen again, but I will enjoy it after the pain of the last two days.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 01:11 (two years ago) link
I think it's really difficult to think contextually in the way that's required here. You tend to look for synonyms/antonyms, but when you actually look at the the top 20 or so closest words, generally very few are direct synonyms/antonyms. In yesterday's one, I got give/receive/provide in the 990s and proceeded to try a million synonyms/antonyms. But the answer was seek, ie not a synonym/antonym of those others, but rather in a close contextual relationship with them, ie in seeking something, you want someone to give/provide you with something.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 01:13 (two years ago) link
testing the spoiler tag
spoiler
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 02:19 (two years ago) link
okay did that right
stalled out at 808/1000, taking a break
38 visionary 27.20 808/1000 70 innovator 26.51 758/1000 80 inspiring 26.31 743/1000 71 innovative 25.89 713/1000 94 cutting edge 24.87 ????
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 02:20 (two years ago) link
My kid got this one in 54, proud of her
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 02:22 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #24 in 37 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.42. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 38.41 (980/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
I'm glad the stats all start from today and all records of my terrible attempts from last week are lost
― calzino, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 02:41 (two years ago) link
yeah only problem is i can now only play semantle on my work computer, in order to preserve forever my ridiculously lucky session today
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 02:51 (two years ago) link
Ugh today’s is tough for me - 80 words in and nowhere close
― Roz, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 03:22 (two years ago) link
media check:https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/semantle-is-hard-mode-wordle-powered-by-a-google-neural-networkhttps://discord.st/server/daily-semantle/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnPZY4z75j0
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 03:47 (two years ago) link
I now have 4 friends on FB playing this religiously w/ me.
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 03:49 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #24 in 330 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.75. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #23. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 4.03
yeesh that was a slog - followed all the wrong leads
― Roz, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 04:16 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #24 in 66 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.15. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #39. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 69.46 (999/1000). My early low-level hits were ancient, zodiac, constellation, fantasy, myth so I was on the wrong track for a while.
I gave up on #23 around guess 120 but only because I was really busy last night/today! I think I like the harder ones more.
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 04:53 (two years ago) link
#24 in 72 guesses. Guess 32 was internet which was 884/1000 and led to a very lucky guess.
― adam t. (abanana), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 05:03 (two years ago) link
I really like the new personal stats tracking... would be fun to see (my own) quickest and longest solves on there.
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 05:37 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #24 in 43 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.54. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #30. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 17.53.
After giving up on yesterday's at 200 or so guesses this was a treat
― Number None, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 07:42 (two years ago) link
just jumped from cold to 997/1000 in one go (a decently guessed stab in the dark) and now i’m stuck because i’ve got no through line to follow.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 07:49 (two years ago) link
ok got there in 32.
76 today, fun way getting there
love the nearest word list, almost poetic
― nxd, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 08:27 (two years ago) link
74 for me. Once I was on the right track this one wasn't too hard to get.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 08:54 (two years ago) link
I'm done with this, several of my words which really should have been extremely close were nowhere near today.
― Ste, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 09:15 (two years ago) link
what words?
― micah, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 09:38 (two years ago) link
done in 36 btw
I solved Semantle #24 in 35 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.91. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 12.39.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 15:53 (two years ago) link
You know what? I found that much less satisfying than getting it at ~100 guesses. And also now I have nothing to do with my day, boo.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 15:54 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #24 in 218 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 14.26. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #122. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 8.55. https://semantle.novalis.org/Wow, that one was a struggle. Took me over 120 guesses to get into the green, another 50 guesses to get into the 900s, & a further 50 guesses to nail it. Satisfying finish, tho, enabled by a surprising intuitive leap at guess 211.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 15:58 (two years ago) link
79 guesses for #24, sheer luck as I was banging in words at random.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 16:01 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #24 in 113 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 14.26. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #46. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 20.93. https://semantle.novalis.org/I'll take it. Once I got a sort of close guess (851) thinking laterally not literally definitely helped - this one time anyway.
― ledge, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 16:41 (two years ago) link
lots of "most x thing in the world" in the top 1000, and one of the highest is "horniest".
― ledge, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 16:50 (two years ago) link
did it in SEVEN today, fuck yeah
― kinder, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 17:25 (two years ago) link
This one took me 228 guesses. I was stuck for a really long time at 977, then got one guess a few steps higher than that and immediately found the solution.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 19:30 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #25 in 167 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.00. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #46. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 73.47 (999/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
I'm not proud but I'll take it. I think I have a new Playing Semantle at Work strategy - make a bunch of guesses, get stuck, do something else and come back to it later.
Which is probably a good Semantle strategy even without the "at work" part.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 00:58 (two years ago) link
Yet again, swimming in a sea of green, well into the 900s, and yet I can't get it. Will take the above advice and take a break.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 03:24 (two years ago) link
― kinder, Tuesday, February 22, 2022 12:25 PM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
i don't understand how this is even possible
i made it to 998 today and still ended up giving up
― ✖, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 05:00 (two years ago) link
Taking a break at guess 700 today. got to 992/1000 and I'm stuck.
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 05:29 (two years ago) link
BTW:The Twitterverse also likes to tweet at the Wordplay account and, in the early days of the digital game, one particularly incensed solver drove home the point that the word RAFFIA should be accepted, by mailing a package of the palm fiber ribbon to the home of crossword editor Will Shortz, to Mr. Shortz’s complete bewilderment.This was a buddy of mine who did this! He was proud it got called out in the article.― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Friday, October 22, 2021 4:26 AM (four months ago)
The Twitterverse also likes to tweet at the Wordplay account and, in the early days of the digital game, one particularly incensed solver drove home the point that the word RAFFIA should be accepted, by mailing a package of the palm fiber ribbon to the home of crossword editor Will Shortz, to Mr. Shortz’s complete bewilderment.
This was a buddy of mine who did this! He was proud it got called out in the article.― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Friday, October 22, 2021 4:26 AM (four months ago)
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 05:41 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #25 in 46 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.61. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #40. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 34.87 (832/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
a lot of luck in this game
― brisk money (lukas), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 06:14 (two years ago) link
ugh after being so cold i tried something completely different i got 972/1000 on guess 8 and quickly got to 993/1000 on guess 10 and…. now i’m on guess 25 and stuck.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 06:21 (two years ago) link
Stuck at 998 and >300 guesses. :/
― Roz, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 07:45 (two years ago) link
I cheated. I don't think I would have got today's.
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 08:12 (two years ago) link
I gave up despite once again getting a couple of 990s. Think I could have got it if I'd persevered.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 08:39 (two years ago) link
stuck on 997 and heading towards 200 guesses
― calzino, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 10:41 (two years ago) link
same, but I'm on 998
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 10:51 (two years ago) link
998 really lulls you into a sense of false confidence, I could never get that close to the answer and think I still need to change direction. The jump from 998 to 999 makes some sort of theoretical sense I guess but all of my answers in the 990s were related to cumbersomeness or convolutedness, had to assume I just wasn't hitting the right synonym. Costliness feels like a whole different world
― ✖, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 12:11 (two years ago) link
972 is my best so far, but unlike Fizzles I have yet to progress further from it.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 13:08 (two years ago) link
plenty of time, mike. i'm still stuck on 993 despite picking it up occasionally and throwing in increasingly desperate tangents.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 13:18 (two years ago) link
I gave up after being stuck at 998 for 200 guesses. Boy, my early stats are really not looking great lol
― Roz, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 13:26 (two years ago) link
I have had a few tries at this in the last couple of weeks and have got literally nowhere (like punch in 40+ words at random and never see any green) before giving up. Today I am closer - the thrill of seeing that green bar for the first time! - and am stalled on 987 after a miraculously low (for me) 95 goes.
― Tim, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 13:32 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #25 in 197 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.00. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #99. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 21.08. https://semantle.novalis.org/
felt like finishing below 200 was an accomplishment today.
― calzino, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 13:37 (two years ago) link
finishing that was far more satisfying than my best score of 35 the other day tbh. Mo struggle = mo fun!
― calzino, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 13:42 (two years ago) link
133! What a boost.
I put the right answer in as part of a bunch of words chosen in exasperation with not getting anywhere with the full expectation of not getting anywhere.
My first reaction was to think I'd crashed the browser.
― Tim, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 14:23 (two years ago) link
Got in the top 100 after 15 guesses but rage quit at 157 today
― Number None, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
I'm at 278 and can't seem to get any closer at all, not quite at the point of rage quitting but getting close.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 16:48 (two years ago) link
Gave up
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 17:02 (two years ago) link
Gave up at 447.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 17:03 (two years ago) link
my first white flag today, got most of the closest ones leading up to 998
― nxd, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 17:31 (two years ago) link
I'm stuck at 998, just hit 300 guesses. Going to go away for a while and do something else. I will not be defeated!
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 18:09 (two years ago) link
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 20:20 (two years ago) link
I'm never giving up again, play to the death every time! I took a couple of breaks from it earlier and resisted the urge to rage-quit.
― calzino, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 20:28 (two years ago) link
i’m on guess 49 and have had seven in the 900s.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 21:03 (two years ago) link
no way devilish should be 1.64 imo.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 21:19 (two years ago) link
the way computers think these days, eh!
― calzino, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 21:22 (two years ago) link
i think it was the most recent one where i typed in "world" and got a similarity of 0.00
had to ponder for a moment if this had any deeper philosophical significance and then decided it was just a bug
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 22:23 (two years ago) link
FUCK YOU PUZZLE #25 I BEAT YOU IN 657 GUESSES HAHAHAHA FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING FUCK
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 23:19 (two years ago) link
that's the spirit!
― calzino, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 23:19 (two years ago) link
Apologies for the outburst, but I feel it was warranted.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 23:21 (two years ago) link
Gave up after 200 guesses and one mid tier green. almost all of the top few hundred are adjectives and maybe I rarely guess adjectives? Either way don't think I would ever have got this.
― ledge, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 23:29 (two years ago) link
I think I got this because all my biggest scoring greens where adjectives - I was on the hunt for one.
― calzino, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 23:41 (two years ago) link
had to talk my semantle-skeptic partner and our 10-yo kid through #25, was interesting coaching and nudging them towards the answer, trying to suggest how the machine would think
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 23:43 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #26 in 81 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.96. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #24. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.02. https://semantle.novalis.org/
literally guessed similar variations of said word in the first 30-40 guesses, this one I think was easier to solve because there are less possible variants of words on this particular 'topic' than in #25. also I quit focusing on synonyms so much.
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 February 2022 00:42 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #26 in 125 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.31. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #35. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 21.07. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Enjoyed this one - tricky but not maddening. My Green Path was not misleading and the mental effort of scrabbling around for related words paid off.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Thursday, 24 February 2022 00:46 (two years ago) link
I gave up on #25; #26 took me 106 guesses and I also found it fairly straightforward once I got in the green.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 24 February 2022 00:53 (two years ago) link
same. yesterday's was flummoxing so I probably burned 10 extra guesses trying to be cutesy thinking it was trying to trick me, then realized no this is very linear
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 February 2022 00:55 (two years ago) link
Wow, gave up on 25 and don’t think I’d ever have got it. Just seems like a massive leap from where I was at, even as close as #996.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 24 February 2022 00:58 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #26 in 45 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.54. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #27. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 15.31. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Well, that was a better result than yesterday’s fiasco, and a pretty satisfying line of progression, from musical instruments through the word “classical” to the ancient world, and then suddenly “philosopher” which skyrocketed me to 987, at which point it was a steady circling the answer (and kind of a lucky guess when I hit it, TBH).
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 24 February 2022 01:34 (two years ago) link
Got it in 136. Echoing everyone else, this was much more linear than most of them.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 24 February 2022 02:14 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #26 in 193 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.22. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #108. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 36.80 (667/1000).
my first one! now i'm hooked for life i guess.
― ✖, Thursday, 24 February 2022 03:08 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #26 in 45 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.00. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #17. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 30.30 (27/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Definitely a lucky guess. My top three before that lucky guess were poet, essayist, author so I can't even tell you why I guessed what I did. Agree on this being easier / more linear but I don't mind at all.
― brisk money (lukas), Thursday, 24 February 2022 04:19 (two years ago) link
fun when you can convince yourself "no I wasn't just guessing, I was tapping into my inner semantic network"
― brisk money (lukas), Thursday, 24 February 2022 04:29 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #26 in 104 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 22.90. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 12.80.
could’ve been faster tbh, I’d gotten the root word pretty early on but didn’t think to try the other forms even after it was clear it was looking for an occupation.
For the quick finishers, do you guys have a strategy for which words/word types you punch in at the start to have a high chance of getting in the greens? In the past few games, it’s taken me close to 100 guesses before I even get warm
― Roz, Thursday, 24 February 2022 05:51 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #26 in 73 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.64. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #20. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 50.40 (967/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
I'm OK with this. nouns seem to be the easiest.
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 24 February 2022 05:58 (two years ago) link
I don't normally finish at all, and when I do get to green is it definitely luck. I don't know why I decided to guess sailor today. Soon after, maybe because I was watching Bill Bailey, I tried comedian and it was pretty straightforward from there.
― brisk money (lukas), Thursday, 24 February 2022 05:59 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #26 in 27 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.70. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 21.95.
...much better than yesterday which I couldn't get!
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Thursday, 24 February 2022 06:41 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #26 in 21 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.21. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #9. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 8.09. https://semantle.novalis.org/
pissed it today
― calzino, Thursday, 24 February 2022 08:04 (two years ago) link
― Fizzles, Thursday, 24 February 2022 08:05 (two years ago) link
I got my highest scoring guess in this one, my first 999 with scholar. it was never going to take a lot of guesses after that.
― calzino, Thursday, 24 February 2022 08:08 (two years ago) link
Today was my best yet. Got it in 36.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 24 February 2022 09:04 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #26 in 86 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.90. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #26. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 27.94. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 24 February 2022 10:19 (two years ago) link
@Calzino: I dunno, I got that one as my 68th guess, and still ended up needing 110 guesses. I got too hung up on synonyms etc for a little while.First time I actually finished one of these.
I solved Semantle #26 in 110 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.70. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 33.87 (454/1000).
Looking back through it now, it's funny to realize that my 11th word was history. At some point I also tried historicist, which I suppose is proof that I don't think like a native English speaker.
― Øystein, Thursday, 24 February 2022 11:50 (two years ago) link
I think sometimes that the more heavily verbose people playing this might struggle more because they overcomplicate it, or maybe that's just bollox and some people get lucky!
― calzino, Thursday, 24 February 2022 11:57 (two years ago) link
Stuck on 999, aaargh.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 24 February 2022 13:20 (two years ago) link
^ That was me today. Got 999, then did another 100 guesses, then gave up.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 24 February 2022 13:24 (two years ago) link
it was my third guess after the 999 that did it, but like I say if you can't be brilliant be lucky.
― calzino, Thursday, 24 February 2022 13:26 (two years ago) link
I've now got 6 of the top 10 and 12 of the top 20. I hate this game.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 24 February 2022 14:26 (two years ago) link
Found it on guess #288. My 999 was guess #191, and I was going to give up on guess #291, so that was lucky.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 24 February 2022 14:34 (two years ago) link
instead i was trapped in “complexity” as an attribute of an object and didn’t get out.― Fizzles, Thursday, February 24, 2022 8:05 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I did the same yesterday and ultimately didn't get it. I would have kept working at it but accidentally restarted my browser so I lost yesterday's page.
Onto today's!
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 24 February 2022 14:40 (two years ago) link
Oh well okay I just completely randomly got it on guess #69 after dancing around a parallel track for about 6 guesses.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 24 February 2022 14:42 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #26 in 73 guesses.
Much better than yesterday's though I did hit a synonym rut for a bit, needed to widen my net rather than trying *every single variation* of a word. I needed to look at types of scholar rather than trying to hit every direct synonym for it, of course I did - also needed not to try every school of philosophy when I hit philosopher (while it could have been 'sophist' it was highly unlikely to have been 'deconstructionist', come on brain.
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 February 2022 15:40 (two years ago) link
61! fucking finally. jesus. i had history on guess 16 annoyingly. the hook into this was dream from which i got to memory.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 24 February 2022 21:25 (two years ago) link
did it in about 90. Route was sort of book, librarian, scribe, archivist
― kinder, Thursday, 24 February 2022 21:31 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #26 in 38 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.99. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #26. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 30.92 (126/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/Route was artist, writer, biographer
― ledge, Thursday, 24 February 2022 23:28 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #27 in 58 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.12. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 29.48 (775/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Felt relatively straightforward - or as straightforward as Semantle ever gets - real glad i didn't get too trapped in wrong guess hell today!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Friday, 25 February 2022 00:33 (two years ago) link
Yep, pretty straightforward, got it in 39.
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 25 February 2022 00:41 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #27 in 75 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.84. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #21. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 13.65. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Friday, 25 February 2022 01:46 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #27 in 39 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.55. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 0.66.
i guess i'm really really good at this now (day 2)
― ✖, Friday, 25 February 2022 01:50 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #27 in 66 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 19.54. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 21.95.
By my third guess I was hitting up around 960 but had to fire about fifty synonyms at it before I got the right word (and, annoyingly, it was a slight variant on one I'd already guessed)
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Friday, 25 February 2022 03:53 (two years ago) link
What was #25? I got utterly stuck and I can't see how to see previous answers.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 25 February 2022 03:58 (two years ago) link
Guayaquil, #25 was costly.
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Friday, 25 February 2022 04:37 (two years ago) link
Guayaquil, #25 was fucking brutal.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 25 February 2022 04:46 (two years ago) link
Wow I was not even close! Or rather, I thought I was close but the several top-10 words I had were not leading me towards that at all. And yet I can totally see it, now that I've been told. This is a great game.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 25 February 2022 04:48 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #27 in 92 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.65. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #21. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 13.65.
Another one of those “wall of greens” situations where I got into the 99x’s early on but struggled to make the leap to the secret word.
― Roz, Friday, 25 February 2022 05:10 (two years ago) link
hadn't played in forever but got it in 80 with a friend playing with me
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 25 February 2022 06:03 (two years ago) link
can see how it would be quite fun played in company
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Friday, 25 February 2022 07:25 (two years ago) link
33 today, new pb!
― nxd, Friday, 25 February 2022 08:55 (two years ago) link
massive struggle today. hanging around in the low 20s, stuck in an area i know isn’t the right area but *is* adjacent. got to 800s with guess 54. but that’s been my peak, currently on 71. a grind.
― Fizzles, Friday, 25 February 2022 10:01 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #27 in 18 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.12. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 36.07 (943/1000).
got lucky today. hit a high green on my second guess.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 25 February 2022 10:11 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #27 in 43 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.07. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #20. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 30.04 (805/1000).
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 25 February 2022 10:16 (two years ago) link
I got frustrated just 60 guesses in and used a thesaurus, despite being at 995 or so. Feel regret and shame.
― brisk money (lukas), Friday, 25 February 2022 10:29 (two years ago) link
f’ that. i’ll use any means necessary to get that damn word. and often i’ve found the thesaurus is not your friend but your enemy. yes i’m still stuck what of it.
― Fizzles, Friday, 25 February 2022 12:44 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #27 in 172 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.23. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #25. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 55.82 (995/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― mike t-diva, Friday, 25 February 2022 13:26 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #27 in 138 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.37. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #31. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 30.74 (838/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Definitely feel like I'm getting worse at this. Took me ages to get anywhere close today, though, so a lot of wasted words.
― emil.y, Friday, 25 February 2022 14:40 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #27 in 29 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.49. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 56.01 (996/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
hit the top 100 on my 5th guess and then it was basically a breeze
― Number None, Friday, 25 February 2022 14:51 (two years ago) link
When I play this on my phone I suck, when I play it on my laptop I'm good.
Idk why that is
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Friday, 25 February 2022 15:21 (two years ago) link
yeah, can't play it on the phone at all
― Number None, Friday, 25 February 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
Woah, first time I've found the word after generally hundreds of guesses on other days before giving up.
I solved Semantle #27 in 9 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.52. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 34.17 (918/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― silverfish, Friday, 25 February 2022 18:34 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #27 in 253 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.83. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #42. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 51.72 (993/1000).
Another day with a ton of near-synonyms. I didn't have a method to hone in on the right word. interesting that few of the similar words used the definition of "going up in value".
― adam t. (abanana), Friday, 25 February 2022 19:31 (two years ago) link
abanana i’m still in that hellscape
― Fizzles, Friday, 25 February 2022 19:46 (two years ago) link
I thought this was going to be a breeze: green at guess 7, 991 at guess 14. Now in the hundreds.
― ledge, Friday, 25 February 2022 19:54 (two years ago) link
here we are. dante’s semantic purgatory.
― Fizzles, Friday, 25 February 2022 19:57 (two years ago) link
990s would be paradiso tbf.
980s are “you still need to make another jump fucko”
Without giving too much away I'm stuck in a cul de sac of love, what about you?
― ledge, Friday, 25 February 2022 20:52 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #27 in 143 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.62. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 46.47 (987/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/Had to resort to Roget in the end.
― ledge, Friday, 25 February 2022 20:55 (two years ago) link
xxp That's the annoying thing, sometimes 980s are "another jump fucko" and sometimes they're "this word has a lot of synonyms, try them all". Hell, sometimes 998 is "another jump fucko, this time at right angles, possibly through a dimension you can't see".
Anyway I got today's earlier but then I checked this thread and couldn't remember the answer so I went to the site, typed a few guesses I remembered passing through earlier and still couldn't jog my memory, so pressed "give up", and then realised I'd buggered up my stats with a "gave up" (did it on work PC earlier, on laptop now). Not that it matters.
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 25 February 2022 21:01 (two years ago) link
Without giving too much away I'm stuck in a cul de sac of [Hidden text. Tap to view], what about you?
― Fizzles, Friday, 25 February 2022 21:15 (two years ago) link
Various xps: yeah i still don’t get how pretty tight synonyms can sometimes score so low - like, does the neural net write a different hierarchy of associations based on its selected primary definition? So if it’s looking for say, “croak” (frog sound) then it won’t be interested in “die” of “perish” - sorry if this is dumb or incoherent, still learning to think like a computer here
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Friday, 25 February 2022 21:39 (two years ago) link
There is some mention on the site about polysemy* causing low scores - I guess the multiple uses mean they're found in different contexts more often and therefore aren't counted as semantically similar. Whereas a usual English-speaking brain would count the meanings additively, the computer penalises them via subtraction. Or something.
(Interestingly, 'polysemous' is not an accepted word in the corpus.)
― emil.y, Saturday, 26 February 2022 00:08 (two years ago) link
Aw, nuts! I forgot to finish yesterday’s puzzle, which I woulda likely nailed in a few more guesses. My first guess was “love”, which I think was in the top 100? Green anyway. And I got to the 990s pretty quick. Anyhow, no braggin rights.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 26 February 2022 00:24 (two years ago) link
8 sleep -1.14 (cold)
are negatives supposed to be possible?
― ✖, Saturday, 26 February 2022 00:27 (two years ago) link
xps, I think it depends on what contexts it sees most in its corpus of example sentences, which the FAQ says are mostly taken from news articles?
So it doesn't deliberately pick a specific meaning of "croak" but it probably won't rate "croak"/"die" very high as it would be unlikely to appear with that meaning in many of its sample news articles. Meanwhile, there'll be a lot of words with more obviously similar meanings to "die" which it will have grouped "die" with instead.
Or the other day, when the word was "level" it didn't rate "flat" or "even" very highly although they're close synonyms in one not-very-newsworthy context but the 900s were full of words which might appear before "level" in news articles like "higher", "lower", "raise" etc.
(OK, the "before" part still mystifies me, regarding when it scores synonyms highly, vs not necessarily same-in-meaning but interchangeable-in-sentence words like antonyms, vs words which might appear nearby or just in the same sorts of article.)
This is basically what emil.y said except longer and less clear, but I don't think it deliberately subtracts scores for multiple meanings, it's just the algorithm doesn't understand multiple meanings at all, so the meanings it doesn't see as often don't rate highly at all. But I guess it may also penalise even the most common meaning, because there's effectively more noise in the data set from the meanings it doesn't know what to do with.
― a passing spacecadet, Saturday, 26 February 2022 00:33 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #28 in 145 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.67. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #63. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 74.70 (999/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Saturday, 26 February 2022 00:57 (two years ago) link
I had guesses that had negative relations wtf
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Saturday, 26 February 2022 00:59 (two years ago) link
nice job...i struuuggled w/ #28, didnt even get in the green and tapped out @ 183 guesses
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 26 February 2022 01:06 (two years ago) link
very stuck on 995
― ✖, Saturday, 26 February 2022 01:25 (two years ago) link
Re negatives: I adjusted the similarity algorithm today to be more correct (that's what I get for copy-pasting code!). And as of a few seconds ago I have adjusted the intro text to explain the range.
It's technically "cosine similarity" (multiplied by 100), if that means anything to you.
― David Turner (semantle), Saturday, 26 February 2022 01:40 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #28 in 193 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.94. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #56. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 74.70 (999/1000).
this game makes me feel like a gigantic dumb lug googling "words related to politics"
― ✖, Saturday, 26 February 2022 01:49 (two years ago) link
Thanks for explanation David! And thanks for this awesome game!
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Saturday, 26 February 2022 01:54 (two years ago) link
158. Tough one!
― Roz, Saturday, 26 February 2022 02:18 (two years ago) link
tonight I had help from a friend who wanted to play, so it was more of a two-pronged effort.
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Saturday, 26 February 2022 02:55 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #28 in 647 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -4.23. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #315. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 16.84. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Took me over 300 guesses to get into the top 1000. with "animus" of all things
― adam t. (abanana), Saturday, 26 February 2022 03:17 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #28 in 111 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.99. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #26. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 74.70 (999/1000)
fun one that, good journey
― nxd, Saturday, 26 February 2022 03:28 (two years ago) link
Jumped from not on the list to 999/1000, and then got the answer due to a habit of trying variations that has never paid off before.
― vcrash, Saturday, 26 February 2022 05:32 (two years ago) link
gross today!!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Saturday, 26 February 2022 07:47 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #28 in 109 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.42. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 74.70 (999/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Fuck, I should have got it in the 20s, took me having political, philosophical, theological and cultural all up there before it clicked, and then it was so obvious. Gah. Not sure my insomnia-ridden brain helped either.
― emil.y, Saturday, 26 February 2022 09:21 (two years ago) link
ok got it in an embarrassingly large no of guesses - smashed my head against a wall forever with half the top ten and totally stuck, then came back to it between sets at a gig and got it immediately argh!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Saturday, 26 February 2022 10:23 (two years ago) link
After a lot of dithering in the cold mid-20s, I crashed straight into the top 1000 at 945, leapt immediately up to 999, and have been stuck there ever since.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 26 February 2022 10:45 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #28 in 98 guesses - my first successful one in a while.My first guess had a similarity of 31.24 - thanks, I guess, to Putin-caused current events.My first word in the top 1000 was ”hatred” at guess #13 - and I got to 425 at #29 with “propaganda”, but couldn’t get past there for ages. It was guess #81 ”polarize” that provided the necessary course correction to steer me into the home straight.My penultimate guess had a similarity of 74.70 (999/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Saturday, 26 February 2022 11:45 (two years ago) link
leapt immediately up to 999, and have been stuck there ever since.
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Saturday, 26 February 2022 11:52 (two years ago) link
Fuck. Have got 993 and still can't crack it. This game is taking over my life.
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 26 February 2022 12:21 (two years ago) link
OK, cracked it 115.
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 26 February 2022 13:00 (two years ago) link
Well, that was a little lucky: I solved Semantle #28 in 22 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.42. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #9. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 53.67 (983/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 26 February 2022 16:00 (two years ago) link
I got the 995 blues.
― ledge, Saturday, 26 February 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
yeah me too.Yesterday's I was so close to getting, I think I probably assumed I'd already done all versions of that word, but hadn't.
― kinder, Saturday, 26 February 2022 16:33 (two years ago) link
Oh, FINALLY. My big blind spot was discounting adjectives and assuming nouns - I must have guessed every "ism" there is.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 26 February 2022 17:04 (two years ago) link
I thought I'd guessed every ist or equivalent but I guess not.
― ledge, Saturday, 26 February 2022 18:56 (two years ago) link
the answer to this thread's title is: no, I can't. I give up.
― StanM, Saturday, 26 February 2022 19:37 (two years ago) link
I gave up. top guess was 'political', must have entered every political persuasion bar cornish independence; I did try to think more generally and I had 'dogmatic' but couldn't make the link.
― ledge, Saturday, 26 February 2022 21:17 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #29 in 107 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.42. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #82. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 47.24 (581/1000).
― ✖, Sunday, 27 February 2022 00:15 (two years ago) link
wacky one, took me 82 guesses to get in the green and then 4 guesses later i had 999, and then i honestly thought i might not get it. expected it to be something directly related to violins at least, especially after yesterday had 996-999 all some variation of the answer itself
― ✖, Sunday, 27 February 2022 00:19 (two years ago) link
Got it in 44. Pretty straightforward once you get into green
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 27 February 2022 00:33 (two years ago) link
Gave up on #28 but got #29 in 44 as well. Guessed a cluster of words in the twenties having to do with writing, got from there to poetic, which was almost in the green, and from there it was an easy few jumps to lyrical --> musician --> music --> guitar --> piano.
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 27 February 2022 00:37 (two years ago) link
Yep, followed a very similar route
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 27 February 2022 00:42 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #29 in 21 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.58. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #9. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 8.79. https://semantle.novalis.org/
dumb luck but felt good
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 27 February 2022 01:02 (two years ago) link
I always guess "tree" first. only cos it gets me going and often ranges between 8-10 percentile
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Sunday, 27 February 2022 01:03 (two years ago) link
holy fuck, that was the easiest one for me yet
I solved Semantle #29 in 39 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.99. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #39. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 0.71. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Sunday, 27 February 2022 01:09 (two years ago) link
only got in the top 1000 once...when I guessed the word.
that is awesome!
― ✖, Sunday, 27 February 2022 01:11 (two years ago) link
all of my guesses had to do with vehicles, and then pedal almost got me into the top 1000, but other things like 'pedal' weren't working, so I thought of a pedal for a piano, and...that was it
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Sunday, 27 February 2022 01:11 (two years ago) link
I solved Pimantle #4 with 229 guesses and no hints!
https://semantle.pimanrul.es
someone made a clone with a 2D visualization, though i can't say i got any use out of it at all
― ✖, Sunday, 27 February 2022 01:32 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #29 in 48 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.01. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 77.56 (996/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Phew, much less agony than yesterday. This game either provides a nice little lunchtime (AEST) diversion, or completely eviscerates my day.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Sunday, 27 February 2022 01:43 (two years ago) link
After 400 guesses on #28 — and being stuck at 995/1000 — I went to a family get-together and couldn’t get back in time to SURELY solve that maddening thing. DNF! Then…
I solved Semantle #29 in 30 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.01. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #28 (923/1000 woot). My penultimate guess had a similarity of 54.14 (826/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
…which is the best I’ve done and it felt pretty good.
Neanderthal, mine was 28, 29, 30: accordion >>> keyboard >>> bingo!
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Sunday, 27 February 2022 02:44 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #29 in 80 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.25. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #40. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 58.69 (918/1000).
Fun one.
― adam t. (abanana), Sunday, 27 February 2022 04:30 (two years ago) link
I wonder if the pimantle guy is a Mel Croucher fan.
― adam t. (abanana), Sunday, 27 February 2022 04:46 (two years ago) link
I am now stuck on the 999/1000. I am absolutely baffled as to what it can be given that I guessed the words that obviously seem like the closest words.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 27 February 2022 06:37 (two years ago) link
I'm baffled that you're baffled! It's amazing how this game reveals the different types of semantic leaps people make. I didn't get 999 but I got a very similar one in the high 990s and then immediately guessed the answer. But then there have been games where I've had several in the high 900s and still given up.
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 27 February 2022 07:13 (two years ago) link
no i understand being baffled! i had pretty much 990-999 and for ages was unable to see what it could possibly be - i guess if you work your way up via a particular route, it can kind of obscure some other possibilities
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Sunday, 27 February 2022 07:40 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #29 in 98 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 20.22. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #84. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 72.63 (991/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/Phew, scraped in under 100.
― ledge, Sunday, 27 February 2022 08:13 (two years ago) link
Lots of extremely niche words in the top 1000, which explains the difficulty (for me anyway) in getting the first green.
― ledge, Sunday, 27 February 2022 08:18 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #29 in 114 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.72. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #75. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 73.12 (993/1000).
There are so many words related to music that it could have easily taken me 30 more guesses to get there, or indeed 30 fewer.
― Grandpont Genie, Sunday, 27 February 2022 09:12 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #29 in 125 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 15.51. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #71. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 44.22 (428/1000).
I like the text he's recently added to the preamble:
By "semantically similar", I mean, roughly "used in the context of similar words, in a database of news articles."
I find it really helps to keep that in mind. It's not about synonyms, it's about words in the same wheelhouse.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 27 February 2022 10:40 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #29 in 149 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.83. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #30. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 24.66. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 27 February 2022 12:53 (two years ago) link
i definitely quibble with the semantically similar calculations -- thinking about my guesses for #29 that the game said were way off base, and then finally getting it, I was like, "uh, those two words tend to go together quite a bit?"
― sarahell, Sunday, 27 February 2022 13:45 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #29 in 58 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 34.50. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #32. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 63.51 (970/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Nice and simple! My first guess was both good for me in being close but also a bit of a distraction, lots of guesses about art before making the leap to music. And then of course my brain tried sousaphone before it tried the real answer.
― emil.y, Sunday, 27 February 2022 14:28 (two years ago) link
29 guesses for #29
certainly found the last few a bit easier than the ones about a week ago
― nxd, Sunday, 27 February 2022 14:38 (two years ago) link
426 bloody guesses for today's. 371 before I got a single green, yet millions of 20-30+ colds. (mainly furniture and house related objects, "sofa" was top of the list for a long time )
― kinder, Sunday, 27 February 2022 19:47 (two years ago) link
(ie Semantle no. 29)
― kinder, Sunday, 27 February 2022 19:49 (two years ago) link
Puzzle 24, today's: I am at 999/1000 lol
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Sunday, 27 February 2022 23:31 (two years ago) link
Sorry 29, not 24.
I solved Semantle #30 in 162 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.82. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #27. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 6.78. https://semantle.novalis.org/
hard one!
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Monday, 28 February 2022 00:44 (two years ago) link
Despite hitting the green at guess 6, I'm still completely lost at guess 99.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 28 February 2022 00:55 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #30 in 322 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 26.76 (509/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 15.14. https://semantle.novalis.org/
my first two greens were guess #1 and guess #143
― ✖, Monday, 28 February 2022 01:05 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #30 in 93 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.69. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #14. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 29.21 (718/1000).
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 28 February 2022 01:20 (two years ago) link
I got 963/1000 at #19 and then it was a slog
Yep - 963/1000 is my top green so far, and I've tried everything and am no closer
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 28 February 2022 01:44 (two years ago) link
My new rule is to give up if I haven't got it by 200 guesses, so I don't destroy the entire day with it. Accordingly, gave up on this one despite a sea of green - but I wasn't conceptually that close to getting it, highest guess was 982/1000. Tough one indeed!
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 28 February 2022 02:24 (two years ago) link
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 27 February 2022 07:13 (yesterday) link
Now that I know the answer I remain baffled. The 999/1000 word was “violin”. I thought for sure that meant it had to be viola or cello. From a musical perspective piano is so much further away than any number or other possible musical instruments or words.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 28 February 2022 04:09 (two years ago) link
I didn't get 'violin', but I did get 'guitar', so I just immediately thought common musical instruments. Of which, piano was the first to come to mind.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 28 February 2022 04:40 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #30 in 137 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.37. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #26. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 11.28. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Trickier! But not brutally unfair I don't think - again, was stuck on a certain line of thinking and had to make a little conceptual nudge sideways.
Yeah I was really fixated on "members of the orchestra" for this one - whereas if you're looking more broadly at "musical instruments" then it shakes loose a bit I think.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Monday, 28 February 2022 06:32 (two years ago) link
I was down to racking my brain for orchestral instruments past timpani before I took a flier on piano on that one.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 28 February 2022 06:42 (two years ago) link
not finished the last few - flailing around in the 700s/800s - pleased to get back on track. I solved Semantle #30 in 33 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.15. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 56.11 (996/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― Fizzles, Monday, 28 February 2022 08:37 (two years ago) link
interesting that my penultimate guess at 996 would have probably had me giving up if i’d come at it from a different angle. not sure idve made the leap.
― Fizzles, Monday, 28 February 2022 08:38 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #30 in 139 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.28. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #95. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 62.64 (997/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 28 February 2022 08:51 (two years ago) link
Best ever!
I solved Semantle #30 in 39 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.03. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #22. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.94.
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 28 February 2022 10:20 (two years ago) link
Jesus, totally stuck on this one. Highest is 963, I have a definite subject area my greens are all in - military shit - but not everything there hits and can't seem to find the right tangent.
― ledge, Monday, 28 February 2022 10:35 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #30 in 613 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.90. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #85. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 17.08. https://semantle.novalis.org/
ugh well i sure made a meal of that.
― ledge, Monday, 28 February 2022 10:51 (two years ago) link
The 999/1000 word was “violin”. I thought for sure that meant it had to be viola or cello. From a musical perspective piano is so much further away than any number or other possible musical instruments or words
It's not about a strictly musical perspective though. Say you're reading a magazine article about music. If the article mentions the violin, then it's more likely to also mention the piano than it is to mention either the viola or the cello.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 28 February 2022 11:37 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #30 in 177 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.54. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 46.44 (979/1000)
Can’t tell if I’m getting better at this or not
― Roz, Monday, 28 February 2022 13:44 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #30 in 51 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.63. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.83.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 28 February 2022 14:23 (two years ago) link
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, February 28, 2022 4:09 AM (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Totally same. I tried every band and orchestral instrument, musical terms, component parts like "reed" and "armature," and would never have guessed piano because I don't think of a piano as part of the orchestra (rightly or wrongly). Too much human brain!
One thing I think a lot is that often the answer is something much easier and more common/less specialist than I think it is. Except for IDEOLOGICALLY or whatever.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 28 February 2022 14:42 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #30 in 291 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 20.38. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #96. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.24.
High number of guesses because my first green bars were romance, fling, tryst.
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Monday, 28 February 2022 15:22 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #30 in 172 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.69. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #163. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 17.64. https://semantle.novalis.org/i was stuck for ages on movie, drama, bikini, watch lol how did I not get it until immediately after i got a green with secret
― kinder, Monday, 28 February 2022 15:53 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #30 in 117 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.90. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #33. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.96. https://semantle.novalis.org/
I've found I'll quite frequently get it after a very cold guess, because at that point I'm searching around a bit more widely than just using synonyms for my top guess. Big exception was getting ideology when I knew it should be a different form of the word, that's my only jump from 999 to the correct answer I can think of. My route today was through crime and criminals, getting up to hackers and terrorists and assassins, then to the right answer.
― emil.y, Monday, 28 February 2022 16:03 (two years ago) link
route for me was via oft used helicopter, airplane, rocket, satellite, intelligence. if i’d hit intelligence at 997 without coming in via satellite, i would have been doing a lot of guessing in the wrong area!
― Fizzles, Monday, 28 February 2022 16:21 (two years ago) link
Heh kinder that wasn’t my route (which was similar to emil.y’s) but I got it immediately after that last green too.
I’ve also found that I tend to waste a lot of guesses trying out different forms of a word which was very confusing today cause assassin was ranked higher than assassinating, but hoaxing was higher than hoaxer, and pretending was green but pretender was not even close to warm
― Roz, Monday, 28 February 2022 16:27 (two years ago) link
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/440366-semantle-never-give-up/code
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 February 2022 16:37 (two years ago) link
also:https://lirnril.gitlab.io/stolen-semantle-mirror/
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 February 2022 16:38 (two years ago) link
Tried it today for the first time, got it in 153. Interesting feeling to look at your old guesses and see how they're connected to the answer, especially the cold ones hovering around 25 similarity. Started to get it with "assassin" but still took me another 50 guesses to figure it out.
― Nhex, Monday, 28 February 2022 18:09 (two years ago) link
This was naaasty
I solved Semantle #31 in 158 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.26. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #65. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.99. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 02:17 (two years ago) link
118 guesses. Not the easiest...
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 02:53 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #31 in 241 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.24. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #128. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 21.76. https://semantle.novalis.org/
rough... stuck on 997 forever
― ✖, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 02:54 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #31 in 227 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.65. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #173. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 38.73 (969/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 03:17 (two years ago) link
horrible, so horrible i am ashamed to share the number of guesses it took me
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 06:29 (two years ago) link
guess 61 and reached a dead end at 982 - been messing about in the greens for some time now. will come back to it later.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 07:12 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #31 in 336 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 32.01 (893/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 45.24 (986/1000).
that was a real hard slog
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 07:35 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #31 in 157 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.56. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 29.50 (819/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Thought I was going to string it out for a lot longer. Closest for ages was 'relevant' at 907, on a whim I tried 'nice', and remembered its old fashioned meaning of 'precise/exact', which somehow led me to 'fitting/appropriate'.
― ledge, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 10:01 (two years ago) link
34 guesses today - my best I think. Partially luck though.
― Kim, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 14:17 (two years ago) link
spoke to soon about this getting easier, nightmare couple of days lol168 today
― nxd, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 15:25 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #31 in 90 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.12. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 31.62 (875/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― kinder, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 15:58 (two years ago) link
my problem is now, using the same intro words as my initial guesses has me always following the same pattern of guesses, which sometimes results in gold, but often times gets me wasting ten guesses and going down the wrong path.
I just like starting with "tree" because it's easy, but it almost always winds up an 8-10%er, then I wind up guessing "building", "house", and then sometimes that means I'm coming at it from the wrong angle.
I'm going to go random today and see how that helps.
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 16:35 (two years ago) link
Gave up at 186, but my best guess was so close (998/1000)!
― Nhex, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 18:12 (two years ago) link
123 for me. Wouldn't feel too bad about it but I made my boyfriend start playing and he got it in 50-something.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 18:21 (two years ago) link
I do 'tree' 'woman' 'world' 'know' early on but they don't always help. Today I was channeling Borat on my 12th guess/1st green guess...
― kinder, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 23:30 (two years ago) link
I didn't solve #31. Got to 982 or so and then got stuck.
I solved Semantle #32 in 189 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.88. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #74 (skin). My penultimate guess had a similarity of 71.74 (997/1000).
I'm still having fun with this game.
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 00:20 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #32 in 40 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.05. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #36. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 23.27. https://semantle.novalis.org/
I had fun today! But yesterday was pure suffering.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 00:21 (two years ago) link
i am completely lost on today's
― ✖, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 00:25 (two years ago) link
Got today's in 27 after just one guess in the green.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 00:26 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #32 in 247 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.39. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #209. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 51.10 (962/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
That was painful
― ✖, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 00:38 (two years ago) link
Did it in 17, my best ever, but it was just random luck.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 00:41 (two years ago) link
well that's just the dumbest luck lol
179 liver 100.00 FOUND!175 blood 42.23 487/1000 177 hematoma 36.00 (cold)
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 00:47 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #32 in 126 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.27. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #95. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 31.82. https://semantle.novalis.org/
good stuff today, i had given up the last 2 days... still enjoying playing :)
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 01:05 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #32 in 33 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.75. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 60.70 (994/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Did much better than my attempt for #31 where I gave up after 200 guesses or so.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 04:05 (two years ago) link
#31 - gave up at 301 guesses and 10 minutes to go
I solved Semantle #32 in 40 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -0.50. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #19. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.22.
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 04:25 (two years ago) link
FUCK
I solved Semantle #32 in 183 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.51. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #160. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 9.09. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 04:28 (two years ago) link
I was lost because words related to fish were all popping at 20-30%, and I still have no idea what made me pivot to stomach other than suddenly I started listing foods other than fish and thought hmm I'm hungry
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 04:30 (two years ago) link
looking at the top 1000 this one seems really impenetrable if you don't happen to guess a medical/anatomy term.... i was stuck on "death" as my top guess forever but i wasn't thinking about it in a medical sense as much as an existential/terminal sense. didn't have a breakthrough until i guessed "comatose," which i still wasn't really thinking about in a medical sense........
― ✖, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 06:11 (two years ago) link
well that was ridiculous. fiddling around in nothing land for ages, then jumped from cold to 998. annoyed i didn’t get yesterday’s. I solved Semantle #32 in 57 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.69. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #53. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 10.62. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 06:29 (two years ago) link
*988
it is *interesting* looking at the word list what’s in there and say not chicken, which was an early guess.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 06:32 (two years ago) link
Yeah, that does confuse me too. Like, even if certain words are more closely associated because of the nature of the computer’s reading list - I get that - but I still don’t understand how secondary meanings (or words that might have a secondary set of semantic associations) are pushed right off the list.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 06:41 (two years ago) link
Got to 487 in 4 and 995 in 11 - and that’s where I’m at still, after 48 guesses. Time for a break.
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 07:55 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #32 in 51 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.73. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #49. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 73.89 (999/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 08:14 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #32 in 73 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.31. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #52. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 44.88 (750/1000).
Towards the end I may have wasted a few guesses by choosing words that were too scientific, like lymphocyte! It's hard to know - maybe this helped me focus on terms which were biological in nature.
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 09:13 (two years ago) link
Bless you, David, for creating such an addictive game. Also, curse you, David, for creating such an addictive game!
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 09:18 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #32 in 77 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.39. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #39. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 28.10.
― kinder, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 09:18 (two years ago) link
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 09:29 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #32 in 35 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.67. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #26. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 73.89 (999/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
My quickest result yet. Guess 7 was container (16:03), guess 16 was vessel (25.31). After faffing around a bit with other meanings of vessel, I tried artery (guess 26) and leapt to 851/1000. Then it was mostly swift and linear, through aorta, lung, kidney to liver.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 11:54 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #32 in 110 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.49. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #106. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 73.89 (999/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
fuck. no greens till #106 blood then got it in five. highest (but not green) for a while was hospital, should have played around with that more maybe. or, looking at the full word list, maybe not.
― ledge, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 13:30 (two years ago) link
I had a go with the mirror site yesterday, trying some earlier ones i didn't play (or did but forgot about, so fickle is memory). Had more instances of taking over 100 to get green. Was stumped for ages with one where glue, cloth, tree, wood were all green but nothing else close to any of those words was. (It was candle.)
― ledge, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 13:36 (two years ago) link
Best yet!
I solved Semantle #32 in 31 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.56. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #26. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 71.74 (997/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Came very close to getting stuck and wasting hundreds of guesses on fish, but gill led me to try lung which got me there super-quick.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 15:03 (two years ago) link
should have got there sooner but took too long to hit green!
75 guesses today, fun one!
― nxd, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 16:49 (two years ago) link
652 to 666 on the word list is pretty funny
― nxd, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 16:58 (two years ago) link
Today was my first. I guessed the third (or second?) closest word on my 25th guess. Let’s say this word was “rhubarb”
So then I spent some 25 more guesses on rhubarbs, rhubarbic, rhubarbian, rhubarb pie, rhubarb salad, phylodoxyglycosirhubarb, brabuhr? rrrrrhubarb? rhubarbara?
The answer ended up being celery
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:12 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #33 in 34 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.23. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #21. My penultimate guess had a similarity of -6.61. https://semantle.novalis.org/
I have a busy day and my productivity is very grateful for this result.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Thursday, 3 March 2022 00:21 (two years ago) link
I'm getting much worse at this
I solved Semantle #33 in 357 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.83. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 39.61 (972/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 March 2022 00:58 (two years ago) link
in my defense, i have to take a dump and I didn't want to play this on the toilet so I was guessing rather rapid-fire
I solved Semantle #33 in 175 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.71. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #45. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 38.02 (964/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
i think i could've gotten this a hundred guesses sooner. are adjectives the least fun ones? i just crawl and crawl through the thesaurus until i find the right one
― ✖, Thursday, 3 March 2022 02:19 (two years ago) link
yeah I hate the adjectives
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 March 2022 02:29 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #33 in 290 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.37. My first word in the top 1000 change was at guess #25. My penultimate guess beautiful had a similarity of 26.40 (310/1000).
Good puzzle today. I could have gotten it sooner by figuring out how guesses like #25 were related.
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 3 March 2022 02:53 (two years ago) link
Gave up around guess 180. Kicked myself when I saw the answer, a very easy jump from the many greens I'd already got.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 3 March 2022 02:58 (two years ago) link
I have a bad tendency of guessing words of the same level of syllables once I go green
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 March 2022 02:59 (two years ago) link
22! personal best :)
― nxd, Thursday, 3 March 2022 04:13 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #33 in 43 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.23. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #30. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 27.23 (462/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/odd one this. only had three greens the highest of which was 800, but had a flash of realising what domain i was in and fluked the answer immediately after.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 3 March 2022 07:40 (two years ago) link
actually having looked at the wordlist, that’s not true. id identified an area - advertising - which covered the green words i’d uncovered - and in the end it was just luck.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 3 March 2022 08:57 (two years ago) link
That feeling after getting a high green early on, of your number of guesses marching inexorably into the hundreds.
That feeling of sudden inspiration, 'yes this must be it!', typing it in, hitting 'guess' ... cold.
― ledge, Thursday, 3 March 2022 09:31 (two years ago) link
absolutely. that moment of “ah! i know!”… 1.16
― Fizzles, Thursday, 3 March 2022 09:46 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #33 in 108 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 18.86. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #25. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.32 (55/1000).
I use a thesaurus pretty much every day for this now. I do think of it as cheating, but the alternative - sheer frustration - is unattractive.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 3 March 2022 10:00 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #33 in 207 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.41. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 49.76 (992/1000).
feels like this should’ve been easier for me sigh
― Roz, Thursday, 3 March 2022 10:47 (two years ago) link
Struggling with this one, got one in top 1000 on 6th guess. Got to 991 on guess 130, up to 203 but seem to be going nowhere.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 3 March 2022 11:24 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #33 in 178 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 14.77. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #32. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 28.20 (595/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Wasn't expecting that! Managed to get it by pure chance after being stuck on 'smart' (but not 'intelligent'), 'swift' (but not 'fast'), and then getting my highest green with the frankly unhelpful 'farsighted'.
― ledge, Thursday, 3 March 2022 12:23 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #33 in 6 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 15.36. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 33.32 (886/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
I don't think I'm ever going to beat this. First guess in green was #981>#886>#1000. Completely random.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Thursday, 3 March 2022 12:33 (two years ago) link
nice!
― Roz, Thursday, 3 March 2022 12:57 (two years ago) link
wow great job!
― nxd, Thursday, 3 March 2022 13:10 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #33 in 231 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.70. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.93. https://semantle.novalis.org/
What a slog that was.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 3 March 2022 14:54 (two years ago) link
I gave up on #32, and looking at the answer, no, I was never going to get it.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 3 March 2022 14:58 (two years ago) link
Incredible, PBKR.
Took me 180 today, for #33. My first green was pretty useless (ironically, it was 'green'), but eventually I went from colours, through stylishness, to dangerousness, and the combo of the last two areas led me to the answer.
― emil.y, Thursday, 3 March 2022 14:59 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #33 in 52 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.53. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #18. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 11.27. https://semantle.novalis.org/
daunting was my first green and it sent me in the totally wrong direction. It was pure luck that I got it during a flurry of rapid guessing, because the direction I was going in would have took me nowhere near it.
― calzino, Thursday, 3 March 2022 15:11 (two years ago) link
I just scored a NEGATIVE 4.54, possibly my worst guess score ever.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 3 March 2022 15:30 (two years ago) link
still not sure how negatives workgot a -10.5 the other day
― nxd, Thursday, 3 March 2022 15:34 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #33 in 54 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.98. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #15. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 18.66.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 3 March 2022 17:17 (two years ago) link
I got it, it took a lot of guesses!
I’d love for there to be an option to pursue the LEAST-semantically related word to the solution, once you’ve solved it, that’d be a fun time
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 3 March 2022 17:40 (two years ago) link
Gave up at 218. Whenever I approach the 200 guess mark I feel like quitting. Best word was 947/1000.
― Nhex, Thursday, 3 March 2022 17:40 (two years ago) link
Had a much easier time here
I solved Semantle #34 in 54 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 14.03. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #45. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 44.24 (992/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 March 2022 00:10 (two years ago) link
Got #34 in 94 guesses, definitely getting better at this.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 4 March 2022 01:01 (two years ago) link
107 guesses. But I was basically lost until 100 or so - the longest I've ever had before hitting the green.
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 4 March 2022 01:01 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #34 in 26 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.22. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #22. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 4.18. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Wild fluke, I’ll take it
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Friday, 4 March 2022 01:53 (two years ago) link
Zelda Zonk, we seem to have a very similar guessing pattern. This took me 110 guesses, and I didn't get a guess in the green until #103. Then I had a few more completely cold guesses and then got the answer.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 4 March 2022 01:57 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #34 in 57 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.33. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #38. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 17.92. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Relatively quick today
― Roz, Friday, 4 March 2022 02:33 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #34 in 112 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.96. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #95. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 10.76. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― ✖, Friday, 4 March 2022 05:30 (two years ago) link
bit of a slog today - slowly making my way up through the greens (first guess in greens was 54/1000). got sidetracked by sustainable, fair, trade and only really got somewhere with market at guess 66. I solved Semantle #34 in 85 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -3.15. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 23.92. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― Fizzles, Friday, 4 March 2022 08:09 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #34 in 92 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.73. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.66.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 4 March 2022 08:20 (two years ago) link
YES, finally. Got #34 in 70.
― Sam Weller, Friday, 4 March 2022 08:57 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #34 in 119 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 14.86. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #15. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 3.59. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Another grind into the 100s, first dozen greens were almost entirely unhelpful. 'Size' but not mass or length or width or height so I don't know why I persisted with 'volume', but that led me towards 'sales'.
― ledge, Friday, 4 March 2022 08:58 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #34 in 11 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.49. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 20.01. https://semantle.novalis.org/incredible luck, but I was owed
― brisk money (lukas), Friday, 4 March 2022 10:25 (two years ago) link
the weird thing is that haggle to value is super straightforward but haggle wasn't even top 1000.
― brisk money (lukas), Friday, 4 March 2022 10:32 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #34 in 46 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.24. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #19. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 13.42. https://semantle.novalis.org/
This game isn't really about synonyms at all. They can point in the right direction initially or to find the final word when you are close, but if I'm not making clear progress with each series of guesses, it's time to switch up the strategy.
Also, words in the 800s aren't really that close sometimes. Often you are just as well off thinking of a completely new path, than trying to get from 800 to 1000 if you are stuck.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Friday, 4 March 2022 12:54 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #34 in 39 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.89. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #27. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 23.20. https://semantle.novalis.org/
the highest green I got was 626 with profit and it didn't take many guesses after that because it was very close really.
― calzino, Friday, 4 March 2022 13:14 (two years ago) link
Gave up at 256. I'm just getting worse everyday lol
― Nhex, Friday, 4 March 2022 14:54 (two years ago) link
Well, I was feeling good about my 54, but looks like most of you beat me. Bah.
I actually think my prime enjoyment game is where it takes me about 90-odd. Just scraping in before the hundred, lots of guesses to play with, not too frustrating but difficult enough to provide a challenge.
― emil.y, Friday, 4 March 2022 15:36 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #34 in 139 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.82. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #36. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 24.27 (57/1000).
Good lord it took a lot of circling around for me to get there.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 4 March 2022 15:38 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #34 in 91 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -0.80. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #57. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 48.66 (996/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
took ages to hit green!
― nxd, Friday, 4 March 2022 17:08 (two years ago) link
words 510 to 513 are the highlights today
― nxd, Friday, 4 March 2022 17:10 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #34 in 79 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.06. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #33 (straight in at 943!) My penultimate guess had a similarity of 20.53.
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Friday, 4 March 2022 18:47 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #35 in 24 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.93. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 33.73 (770/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 5 March 2022 00:39 (two years ago) link
meh I shoulda got this sooner
I solved Semantle #35 in 113 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 21.56. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #22. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 20.94. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Saturday, 5 March 2022 00:42 (two years ago) link
stuck on 998
I don't know the word xwoba.
― ✖, Saturday, 5 March 2022 01:05 (two years ago) link
it's from Shaggy's "Boombastic"
Mr Xwoba Xwoba
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Saturday, 5 March 2022 01:07 (two years ago) link
57 for me. Took over 50 guesses to get in the green but it was quick from there
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 5 March 2022 01:48 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #35 in 52 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -2.51. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 55.80 (997/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
thought for a hot second it was gonna be the Shane Warne Memorial Semantle
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Saturday, 5 March 2022 02:12 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #35 in 54 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.47. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 5.55. https://semantle.novalis.org/just got that one out of nowhere but also feel it was a decent enough guess. my nearest prior guess was 826. 47 swing 35.88 826/1000 38 play 31.87 707/1000 41 game 30.32 645/1000 16 wood 27.72 443/1000 48 frame 27.40 408/1000 32 wooden 25.68 165/1000interesting how much cricket dominates the domain list (id been wondering about US/UK corpus bias) RIP Warnealso it’s a word testing the question of whether you get multiple meaning domains - here would bat as in pipistrelle also feature in the wordlist - no is the fairly obvious answer - these are semantic fields - but my early “going up” scores with “tree” and “garden” did have me wondering.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 5 March 2022 04:52 (two years ago) link
actually that’s baloney cricket doesn’t appear until 864. ignore me, it’s usually best and i haven’t had much sleep.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 5 March 2022 04:56 (two years ago) link
Interesting how completely one-sided Semantle seems to be when it comes to words with multiple meanings. I mean 'bat' as in the flying mammal is not exactly a rare usage, but there's virtually no association with it at all in the top 1000. 'Echolocate' comes in at 693.
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 5 March 2022 05:12 (two years ago) link
yeah that’s weird. i’ve read over the word2vec document again and my assumption that the semantic domain will define the meaning of the word (where there are multiple meanings/polysemous) looks wrong. so it must be predominant usage in the corpus?
― Fizzles, Saturday, 5 March 2022 06:21 (two years ago) link
ZZ I tried exactly that after arriving at the answer from the other direction ball, pitch, racquet - I then tried 'echolocation' which was 599 and 'bird' which was 477 but 'fly' was cold
― kinder, Saturday, 5 March 2022 13:16 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #35 in 80 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.25. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 43.34 (953/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Could have chopped 40 guesses out v easily. Oh well.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Saturday, 5 March 2022 13:24 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #35 in 188 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.64. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #24. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 48.38 (986/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/Fuck this game! Got 'play' early on (after mistyping 'fly'); 'game' yep, 'sport' no, 'rugby' no, 'football' no - ah well better not try any other sports then. Bastard.
― ledge, Saturday, 5 March 2022 13:56 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #35 in 61 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 22.98. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 6.99.
Total fluke!
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 5 March 2022 14:07 (two years ago) link
lol ledge i would have been livid.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 5 March 2022 14:22 (two years ago) link
it’s all about the angle you come in at. small increments at low levels are really unhelpful and you have to force yourself to almost start from scratch and expand the net of “good” guesses. multiply the angles.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 5 March 2022 14:24 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #35 in 26 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 15.42. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.87 (203/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Apparently I did come at it a different way to you lot, my path was toward the flying animal - my first green hit was 'bird', so I just tried some other flying things and got lucky with the cute lil night friend.
― emil.y, Saturday, 5 March 2022 15:02 (two years ago) link
I eventually got there with ball which I should have guessed earlier than I did; I did guess hit which isn't there wtf, though some derivatives are.
― ledge, Saturday, 5 March 2022 15:07 (two years ago) link
Gave up on 418 today.
― Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 5 March 2022 15:23 (two years ago) link
Ridiculous number of greens (43) which were a combination of words about warfare, weapons, woodwork tools and gardening tools. .
So, totally see how those relate to what the answer is, but I am not sure I'd have ever got there! Well done those who did.
― Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 5 March 2022 15:28 (two years ago) link
emil.y just swanning in and laughing their way at all the constraints everyone else is wailing about. it’s fascinating how you can create a sub domain out of the main domain and get to the right answer (this happened to me with “bold” where i’d assumed “advertising” out of my words). ofc get on the wrong tack and omg such a slog.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 5 March 2022 15:37 (two years ago) link
Got there in 62 guesses today
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Saturday, 5 March 2022 16:06 (two years ago) link
Gave up today, best was mitt at 959. With my British head on didn’t think about baseball as I’m sure I would have got it if I’d thought of that context.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 5 March 2022 16:23 (two years ago) link
I got a bunch of early hits on guns, rifle - but no other army/violence/injury words - then “projectile” led to “ball” and it was a relative waltz from there, but in my mind was definitely cricket rather than baseball - “wicket” scored quite highly i think
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Saturday, 5 March 2022 19:09 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #35 in 59 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.28. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 46.21 (974/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
I went from wood to door to doorknob to opener and stump and as soon as I tried some cricket words is was straightforward top hits from there!
― calzino, Saturday, 5 March 2022 20:53 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #35 in 69 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 22.98. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5 with “home”. Got all the way up to 477 at #35 with “bird” and 864 at #65 with “cricket” while being totally on the wrong track (or was I?) (I was thinking flying animals), and then, when I wanted to rule out the *other* meaning with “wicket”, I struck gold. But ironically, it turned out to be a flying animal after all!My penultimate guess which was “wicket” had a similarity of 46.21 (974/1000).
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Saturday, 5 March 2022 22:35 (two years ago) link
That’s a pretty great encapsulation of what makes this game infuriating/fun. I suddenly feel sorry for the poor computers tasked with trying to make sense of this dumb fkn language.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Saturday, 5 March 2022 23:23 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #36 in 30 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -2.47. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #27. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 44.35 (990/1000)
I felt like I was doing a much better job of swivelling through possible domains this time (allowing that there’s always a great deal of luck involved in getting onto the green).
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Sunday, 6 March 2022 00:39 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #36 in 45 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.38. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 39.12 (986/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 6 March 2022 00:59 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #36 in 139 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 16.88. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #42. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 3.99. https://semantle.novalis.org/
i got 2 words above 800 and struggled. getting the answer didn't really feel like "getting" it even though the answer isn't really far off from what i was stuck on.
― ✖, Sunday, 6 March 2022 02:02 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #36 in 63 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.98. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #36. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 20.42 (317/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
slow start but fairly quick once I got into the greens
― Roz, Sunday, 6 March 2022 02:03 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #36 in 114 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -5.71. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #42. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 54.97 (996/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Sunday, 6 March 2022 03:09 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #36 in 86 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -12.47. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #36. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 54.97 (996/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― Nhex, Sunday, 6 March 2022 08:13 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #36 in 76 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.26. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #53. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 52.26 (995/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/Can't be unhappy with that but I wish I'd tried my customary 'option' sooner, it only took me three guesses after that.
― ledge, Sunday, 6 March 2022 08:20 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #36 in 66 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 24.42 (766/1000) with “input”, and I had “team” (558/1000) at #5, but I still couldn’t get back in the green with any of the workspace or management speak words I tried until “process” at #47, and I only saw the light at #51 with “diversity” (874/1000).My penultimate guess ”array” had a similarity of 32.60 (960/1000).
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Sunday, 6 March 2022 09:02 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #36 in 66 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -8.42. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 35.45 (976/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
it took me another 10 guesses after select which is what I presume ledge meant by customary 'option'.
― calzino, Sunday, 6 March 2022 09:04 (two years ago) link
lol nice score, breastcrawl!
― calzino, Sunday, 6 March 2022 09:05 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #36 in 44 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.74. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #35. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 52.26 (995/1000). The word that clinched it this time was when I hit on menu.
― Grandpont Genie, Sunday, 6 March 2022 09:13 (two years ago) link
Just after I started playing my wife turned in the TV and my first few words were picked out of questions Sophie Raworth was asking the Deputy Minister of Ukraine.
― Grandpont Genie, Sunday, 6 March 2022 09:16 (two years ago) link
*prime minister!
― Grandpont Genie, Sunday, 6 March 2022 09:17 (two years ago) link
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Sunday, 6 March 2022 09:31 (two years ago) link
-8.42, I do apologize
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Sunday, 6 March 2022 09:32 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #36 in 55 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -2.07. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #50. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 1.12. https://semantle.novalis.org/Was going nowhere until I randomly got collection
― kinder, Sunday, 6 March 2022 09:33 (two years ago) link
it took me another 10 guesses after select which is what I presume ledge meant by customary 'option'.I meant 'option'! which is one of my customary guesses along with mind, brain, love, emotion, math, logic, object, abstract, god, time, space, distance, place, set, run, do, have... and others. Don't know how good a strategy that is as more general terms often aren't a close match but it's probably no worse than any other!
― ledge, Sunday, 6 March 2022 10:55 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #36 in 38 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.03. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 20.42 (317/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 6 March 2022 11:31 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #36 in 113 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -4.03. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 52.26 (995/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
I got trapped at 947 with quality for quite some time.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Sunday, 6 March 2022 13:12 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #36 in 4 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.71. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 5.16. https://semantle.novalis.org/^ absolute fluke as it was so close to one of the starter words I always use. Still, feeling smug today.
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Sunday, 6 March 2022 13:21 (two years ago) link
still trying to get a hang of this thing ... i didn't give up this time and got it in ... 94 lol. First green word came fairly early -- "taste" -- but then I ventured down multiple wrong paths. Then I decided to think like a computer in terms of what people commonly use computers for, and I got there quite quickly! (for me)
― sarahell, Sunday, 6 March 2022 14:59 (two years ago) link
It's normal practice on this thread to hide words that might be construed as hints in spoiler text, fyi.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 6 March 2022 15:02 (two years ago) link
Oh my god, this one was a nightmare for me.
I solved Semantle #36 in 257 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.20. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 54.97 (996/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
My first word in the green was input and it did not help AT ALL. So many wrong paths - I don't think I've ever had as many minus scores. I only got on the right path by sharing ideas with my bf, who I believe is still working on today's.
― emil.y, Sunday, 6 March 2022 15:38 (two years ago) link
i’m doing abysmally. just cannot seem to get in the right place despite one in the 800s.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 6 March 2022 15:58 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #36 in 133 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.63. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #121. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 6.92. https://semantle.novalis.org/
another one that took aaaages to hit green but once in it played fine
― nxd, Sunday, 6 March 2022 17:02 (two years ago) link
why was 'cherry' in the top 1,000 wtf
― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 6 March 2022 23:52 (two years ago) link
Probably because of ‘cherry pick’ing things?
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Sunday, 6 March 2022 23:56 (two years ago) link
i think a new cricket ball is sometimes called a cherry?
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Monday, 7 March 2022 00:05 (two years ago) link
Got it in 68, woo
― Nhex, Monday, 7 March 2022 00:06 (two years ago) link
Got today's, #37, in 47 guesses, by a very similar route to the one from a few days ago where the answer was "bat." First time I've seen semantle sort-of repeat itself.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 7 March 2022 00:07 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #37 in 41 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -0.03. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 7.44. https://semantle.novalis.org/
It's definitely going through a more forgiving phase at the moment - I dare not assume I am getting better at it.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Monday, 7 March 2022 00:11 (two years ago) link
158 guesses this time - my approach of spamming the keyboard with obviously irrelevant words while I think is ugly... and has not triggered a path to success yet. But by god I'm going to keep doing it.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 7 March 2022 00:26 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #37 in 72 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.60. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #43. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 18.36. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 March 2022 00:28 (two years ago) link
once again, the 'duh' moment happened ten guesses later than it should have
I solved Semantle #37 in 60 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.06. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 16.00. https://semantle.novalis.org/
i got my second guess in the green because i typo'd the word i really meant to try and then took forever to figure it out, i think i have reached the peak of my ability here
― ✖, Monday, 7 March 2022 00:29 (two years ago) link
I got this one in 20. Kind of dumb luck because my nearest guess was “cold” - although to me it didn’t seem cold once I knew what the word was.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 7 March 2022 00:42 (two years ago) link
Fluked it in 15. Which is fortunate as I have a ton of work to get through.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 7 March 2022 00:55 (two years ago) link
I seem to do best when I shut off my brain and just flail around at random with words.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 7 March 2022 00:57 (two years ago) link
some hilarious words in the top 1000, looking at that list I now have no idea how I managed to arrive at the answer
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Monday, 7 March 2022 01:37 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #37 in 333 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 15.21. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 21.25 (35/1000).
Sooooo many wrong trajectories.
Average guesses across all games: 248.43
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Monday, 7 March 2022 04:17 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #37 in 28 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.67. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 30.77 (915/1000).
Might be my best yet. My second guess was diamond which put me on the right track.
― adam t. (abanana), Monday, 7 March 2022 04:29 (two years ago) link
failed miserably at yesterday's, got this one in 18, took about 2 minutes, by far the best i've ever done
― JoeStork, Monday, 7 March 2022 05:10 (two years ago) link
finally got #37 in 64 tries -- i agree w/emsworth re forgiving phase and doubt i am improving -- though i guess i should feel good that i remembered so many words associated with American football considering I haven't followed it in over 30 years
― sarahell, Monday, 7 March 2022 06:16 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #37 in 48 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 23.73 (494/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 40.69.
first guess was home and the closest opening guess I've made yet. The penultimate guess was a typo where I got two letters the wrong way round of the secret word and the first time I've noticed you get a score for misspellings that are very similar.
― calzino, Monday, 7 March 2022 06:18 (two years ago) link
yesterdays was a miserable failure. got there easily today. I solved Semantle #37 in 27 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.20. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #15. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 14.42. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― Fizzles, Monday, 7 March 2022 06:50 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #37 in 59 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.48. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 44.26 (996/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 7 March 2022 08:13 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #37 in 104 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.45. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #22. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.11.
― Sam Weller, Monday, 7 March 2022 08:48 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #37 in 71 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.97. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 44.26 (996/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Stuck on 982 ball for a while, the 'give it a rest and try again later' strategy really helped here, even just for 5 or 10 minutes.
― ledge, Monday, 7 March 2022 09:28 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #37 in 72 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.26. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #28. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 6.99.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 7 March 2022 12:01 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #37 in 27 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.40. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 10.90. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Sunday, March 6, 2022 7:11 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
otm
― johnny crunch, Monday, 7 March 2022 12:13 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #37 in 72 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.06. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 29.00 (874/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
I only had one guess in the 900s and after continent, zone, center didn't get me there, I backed out and went range>pasture>the word in three guesses. There are a lot of paths with this word.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Monday, 7 March 2022 12:35 (two years ago) link
pilon, blooped, squibbing, skelly, colligate, fungoes, yd, gapper, cuppy - are these all US sports terms or what? I know we have shit like 'silly mid off' but come on
― ledge, Monday, 7 March 2022 13:38 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #37 in 91 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.99. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 5.15. https://semantle.novalis.org/
I just like typing in words too much. My penultimate guess was 'dodecahedron' just because I wanted to type that in (not hidden because I can't really see that being a spoiler for any reason).
― emil.y, Monday, 7 March 2022 14:33 (two years ago) link
25 today! thanks to a big 982 after ten guesses
― nxd, Monday, 7 March 2022 14:43 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #37 in 38 guesses.
My first guess had a similarity of 2.78.
My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #9.
My penultimate guess had a similarity of 24.33
Should've gotten that faster considering where I go every day
― kinder, Monday, 7 March 2022 16:10 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #37 in 57 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.83. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #17. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 31.60 (933/1000).
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 7 March 2022 17:59 (two years ago) link
Not gonna lie the Wordle share thing is a lot easier to read
― Nhex, Monday, 7 March 2022 18:44 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #37 in 11 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.06. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 30.58 (912/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
wild, will probably never top this.
― von kelson, Monday, 7 March 2022 20:27 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #37 in 116 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 16.65. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #24 with “season”, which came up when I was heaving moderate success with (northern hemisphere) climate- and geology-related words, which got me as far as “tundra” at 629 and “circle” (as in polar —) at 811 (at guess #74). I guess I could have explored things from the sports angle early on from “season”, but we just had a sports-related word recently, so I thought nah, I’m good. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 44.26 (996/1000). Even though this was a bit of a rough one for me, it took several rounds across the day to get there, I like that I seem to get them in the end no matter what now. Knock on wood.
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Monday, 7 March 2022 21:44 (two years ago) link
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Monday, 7 March 2022 21:55 (two years ago) link
I find the "figuring out the jump" the hardest, because I almost always hit words that are in the 15-20% range long before I get any greens, and obviously finding similar words to those in the 15-20% are just going to have you endlessly finding other 15-20% words.
yesterday I started to get better at that, like thinking of other words that might be related to that grouping of words that aren't really synonyms and trying some of those out instead. each time I get int he green I can't figure out how my brain made the leap, but it does.
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 March 2022 22:32 (two years ago) link
I just like typing in words too much
this is my problem. my impulse is to just try a million words and go wherever free association takes me, even if those words aren't really hits. and trying every variation of a word and close synonyms even if they aren't really hits.
and then i wonder why it always takes me 100+ tries. though i think i'm also just really bad at free associating to a wide array of concepts. i latch onto things
― ✖, Monday, 7 March 2022 23:22 (two years ago) link
Onto #38 and fuck this. Over 200 guesses, many greens, my highest at 994/1000... and still I can't get it.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 01:12 (two years ago) link
From the sublime to the ridiculous in fact, as yesterday I got it in 17. Just when you think you're getting the hang of it, you're not getting the hang of it.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 01:13 (two years ago) link
Took me 108 to get to green but then 40 more to strike gold.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 01:19 (two years ago) link
I gave up. Had a shit day and don't feel like chasing endless dead ends.
Lol I was in the greens and never would have gotten it
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 01:48 (two years ago) link
Gave up too. Might have got it if I'd persevered I guess, but over 200 guesses is enough.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 02:06 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #38 in 149 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.51. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #22. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 44.70 (993/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― ✖, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 03:28 (two years ago) link
362 guesses lol. was completely misled - it took me more than 200 guesses to get past my highest green at 808/1000
― Roz, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 03:39 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #38 in 264 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -4.94. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 20.78.
Would not have got it without a thesaurus. I was floundering in the 800s and typed in the first related word I looked up, bingo.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 07:51 (two years ago) link
What are people's average # of guesses? I'm averaging 155.73 at the moment.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 07:53 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #38 in 260 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.77. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #135. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 20.15. https://semantle.novalis.org/
That was hard! I was out on site all day so had various opportunities to chip away at it, but wasn’t really til I got home and could concentrate that I finally got somewhere.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 08:14 (two years ago) link
#38 -- i'm at guess 206, with 7 guesses in the 900s and my brain needs a break
― sarahell, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 08:31 (two years ago) link
got 879/1000 on guess 4. am now on guess 97.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 08:34 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #38 in 36 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -3.16. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 58.56 (998/1000).
Nice. Semantle owed me one.
― Sam Weller, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 08:44 (two years ago) link
stuck on 969/1000, 160 guesses.
― ledge, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 09:26 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #38 in 274 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.49. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #14. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 26.52 (623/1000).
Average guesses across all games: 250.13
I, too, like typing out the words.
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 09:50 (two years ago) link
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 09:52 (two years ago) link
stuck on 986 on 111 guesses. Going take a break because I am going nowhere fast
― calzino, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 10:16 (two years ago) link
makes me so mad when the solution is just another form of a word i’d entered dozens of guesses earlier, which happened today.
― Roz, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 10:21 (two years ago) link
yeah that is annoying, feels like wasting guesses typing e.g. guess guessing guesses guessed, but sometimes it has to be done.
found todays in 284 with thesaurus help which seems unnecessary in retrospect.
― ledge, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 10:31 (two years ago) link
did today's, #38, in 36. hit on a low green on my 4th guess and it was quite a pleasant route to the word e.g. cloud, thick, envelop, surround
― kinder, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 11:48 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #38 in 142 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.46. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 1.53.
hah! I had the plural of the secret word like about 60 odd guesses ago.. durr!
― calzino, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 12:10 (two years ago) link
194 for #38! My average is 142, which I feel is alright.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 14:21 (two years ago) link
Gave up on #38 at 268 guesses.Closest I came was "lingering" at 984/1000 - you can see my frustration.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 15:43 (two years ago) link
I used ilxors' hints to finally get it in 230 ... i first got closer with building > urban > area so I could have been stuck in a maps and building plans rabbit hole for hundreds more
― sarahell, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 17:12 (two years ago) link
I did terrible. Tried on two devices and didn’t get anywhere without hints here. Ugh.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 17:22 (two years ago) link
I couldn't get it because my first green was a series of words like "related", "relationship", "other", "linked", and 'related' was in the 900s, but there was no way for me to get "surrounding" from that
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 17:23 (two years ago) link
my second `give up` today ;_;
― nxd, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 17:28 (two years ago) link
Got to 945 at guess #36 and haven’t been able to get closer. Did get to 910 at guess #85 by making an earlier cold word plural, but that’s it. Now at #113. Think I’m letting this one go. It’s been a hard enough day already, this is just additional frustration. Guess I didn’t knock on wood hard enough yesterday!
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 21:21 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #39 in 23 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.28. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 14.10. https://semantle.novalis.org/
holy moly. i think people will have an easier time with this one. the top 1000 is pretty uniform except for the word "stroganoff"
― ✖, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 00:27 (two years ago) link
Haha I had a terrible time, although maybe not ideal to be doing this in lifts and corridors when walking around my workplace
I solved Semantle #39 in 170 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.27. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 34.77 (874/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 02:18 (two years ago) link
Best in a while, 46
46 generous 100.00 FOUND!44 magnanimous 53.53 995/1000 42 kindly 35.26 883/1000 39 saintly 30.86 717/1000 43 magnanimously 30.82 714/1000
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 02:38 (two years ago) link
my first green was "meal", which wasn't very helpful at all! the effect of having your expectations wrongly primed by a misleading first green can be CATASTROPHIC imo
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 03:09 (two years ago) link
In 118, although I was stuck on 996/1000 for 40 guesses...
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 03:42 (two years ago) link
66, relatively comfortable stroll today compared to yesterday
― Roz, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 04:04 (two years ago) link
solved #39 in 52 guesses. I feel like I'm getting a lot better at this, although I also still quit a lot. Again best approach just seems to be total random/free association until I get close. Sometimes I listen to a podcast while I'm doing it and just randomly enter words I hear in the podcast.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 05:16 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #39 in 26 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 24.93. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 27.78 (428/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/i haven’t finished the last two days so relieved to do this relatively quickly.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 06:53 (two years ago) link
Both sad and happy there's no practice mode for this. I feel like I could get better at this but it would also be too addictive.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 07:00 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #39 in 49 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 14.45. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #9. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 39.67 (951/1000).
nice start to the day
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 07:43 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #39 in 32 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.08. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #29. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.08.
total fluke, hit a high green on #29
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 08:20 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #39 in 119 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.14. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 11.26. I actually thought it was going to be worse than that, once I got going, since all my early greens were superlatives, and there are obviously so many of them! It was only once I hit on 'abundance'that I started to make useful progress.
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 09:36 (two years ago) link
got it in 75, but weirdly after only one green ( gift, but `present` was cold ). but had lots of high-ish colds.
― kinder, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 09:44 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #39 in 34 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.85. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 35.97 (903/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― brisk money (lukas), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 09:50 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #39 in 84 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.90. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 45.97 (982/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
From guesses 28 to 56 I went from good to judicious to gift and it was pretty direct from there.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 12:04 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #39 in 116 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 17.34. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 42.46 (970/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/\\
Green in 8, great I thought, then I got stuck on handsome (930) for ages. Was trying other complimentary words not to do with attractiveness too but not well enough.
― ledge, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 13:19 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #39 in 196 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.57. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #62. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 8.15. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Took me ages to get anywhere near a green, then I got stuck exactly where ledge did, then finally got the additional senses of caring and large to get me off the attractive track.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 15:47 (two years ago) link
xp PBKR - i feel like my extensive experience with charitable fundraising was a hindrance because i got over a dozen high 900s based on words used in the context of thank you letters written to donors but then i thought about the tendency for the words to be polysemous and i thought of the guesses that were somewhat close that were related to food and i got it.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 16:33 (two years ago) link
63 today, only 2 greens then a lucky leap to the correct answer, always a nice double take when that happens
― nxd, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 17:24 (two years ago) link
xp Several ppl have mentioned it, but the first green you get and the route you take can really make things harder or easier for you.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 17:58 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #39 in 75 guesses. My first guess (“wine”) had a similarity of 16.33. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11 with “sweet” - got stuck on the sugary sense of it for too long, until “lovely” at guess #30 shot me up to 848. Still took me 45 (!) more guesses in the same realm (both adjectives and nouns) to finally get there.My penultimate guess had a similarity of 27.46 (375/1000).
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 18:24 (two years ago) link
part of me thinks this might be a "better" game if you're given the #1000 word from the start. a lot of the time it doesn't feel like getting into the green is an actual skill, just random chance. but that's not true, some people are clearly better at it than others
― ✖, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 19:36 (two years ago) link
got puzzle #40 in 53 guesses. largest leap so far, only had 3 in the green and closest was 356/1000
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 10 March 2022 00:23 (two years ago) link
50, trying an animal-vegetable-mineral type of approach to early guesses
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 10 March 2022 00:28 (two years ago) link
Got it in 41. Struck the high greens at 13, then just a question of trying out a bunch of words in the general area.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 10 March 2022 00:36 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #40 in 59 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.12. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #42. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 6.75. I was due!
johnny, I had only two in the greens, and the closest was...356/1000.
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Thursday, 10 March 2022 00:48 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #40 in 41 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -0.66. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 33.31 (937/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Best one for me in a while
― Roz, Thursday, 10 March 2022 01:11 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #40 in 71 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.10. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #40. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 14.97. https://semantle.novalis.org/
I’ll take it!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Thursday, 10 March 2022 02:46 (two years ago) link
part of me thinks this might be a "better" game if you're given the #1000 word from the start. a lot of the time it doesn't feel like getting into the green is an actual skill, just random chance.
hmm not sure I agree with this - there's been a lot of times where following a thread from the 10-15 guess range eventually got me into the greens. Today it was "computer", which led v quickly to "device", a low green.
but yeah, definitely not fun on the days where it takes ages to get there though.
― Roz, Thursday, 10 March 2022 03:13 (two years ago) link
i mean i don't agree with it either
I solved Semantle #40 in 78 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.19. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 43.35 (991/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
got to 998 fairly early and was stuck there forever
― ✖, Thursday, 10 March 2022 04:42 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #40 in 66 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.78. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #38. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.30 (102/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/Maybe the most satisfying Semantle for me ever, in that my winning guess neatly combined two different lines of inquiry, music-related and group leader related. Normally I'm desperately trying to branch out from a single approach.
― brisk money (lukas), Thursday, 10 March 2022 05:30 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #40 in 57 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.00. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #35. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.81 (619/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
my winning guess neatly combined two different lines of inquiry
Nice. I was stuck on president and leader for a while - so tempting to just hammer out synonyms but they weren't even top ten so it had to be something slightly more tangential.
― ledge, Thursday, 10 March 2022 08:52 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #40 in 73 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.27. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.21 (569/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 10 March 2022 10:42 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #40 in 93 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.23. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #9. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 15.07.
I went down a musician wormhole but diverged from soloist and vocalist to find the word.
― calzino, Thursday, 10 March 2022 12:24 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #40 in 39 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.45. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #26. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 31.68 (909/1000).
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 10 March 2022 13:39 (two years ago) link
95 today. Interested to see other people's paths, I basically followed the same chain as calzino, got stuck writing down every single musician type - violinist, trombonist, pianist etc - that I could think of before moving more laterally.
― emil.y, Thursday, 10 March 2022 13:42 (two years ago) link
My 1st green was 'voice' on 26 guesses. There are lots of directions you could potentially go from there but luckily for me my higher greens to get me to the solution included both 'megaphone' and 'microphone'.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 10 March 2022 13:44 (two years ago) link
xp
yeah I did the whole orchestra as well lol, with the forlorn hope one of them might miraculously be the right one!
― calzino, Thursday, 10 March 2022 13:47 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #40 in 61 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.00. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 30.66 (882/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Was surprised to finally get it - all my close guesses were stuff like "leader", "president", "elected", "governor", etc.
― Nhex, Thursday, 10 March 2022 15:49 (two years ago) link
same, i was stuck on legislator, parliamentarian, lawmaker, leader, politician - guessed "orator" on a whim and got the answer next guess
― ✖, Thursday, 10 March 2022 16:18 (two years ago) link
nearly done the whole bloody orchestra and related terms and am on 935/10000 fuuuuuuuck. realised it’s some like beach or something and i just haven’t made some sort of obvious in retrospect lateral jump.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 10 March 2022 16:42 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #40 in 8 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.01. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 20.47.
Insane, sheer blind dumb luck, I was listening to Eleventh Dream Day when I opened up the tab, so my second guess was "guitar" which led to "feedback", "music", "noise" and "amplifier".
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 10 March 2022 16:50 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #40 in 66 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.77. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 27.04 (728/1000).
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Thursday, 10 March 2022 18:25 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #41 in 23 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.47. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 18.35 (41/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Wooooo needed this today!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Friday, 11 March 2022 00:31 (two years ago) link
Gave up after getting every word from 988 to 998 and then spinning out - I thought I'd already guessed the answer
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 11 March 2022 00:33 (two years ago) link
124 - but I was completely lost until the last 3 guesses
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 11 March 2022 02:01 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #41 in 46 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -4.23. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #15. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 51.22 (991/1000).
First green guess was 950/1000. After that, all my little sidetrips were just that -- little.
This is the first puzzle where I said "This has got to be the answer" and it was!
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Friday, 11 March 2022 03:00 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #41 in 41 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.62. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #20. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 42.17 (977/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 March 2022 03:06 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #41 in 57 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.56. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 48.15 (988/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
i hate spending this much time in the green. got stuck in a technology profession loop (programmer, technician, etc) before trying "controller" for some reason, which got me to leader and then director.
― ✖, Friday, 11 March 2022 03:42 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #41 in 34 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -0.36. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 21.41 (466/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
two good days in a row yay
― Roz, Friday, 11 March 2022 05:56 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #41 in 46 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.42. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #28. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 26.28 (765/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 11 March 2022 06:35 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #41 in 49 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -2.19. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #41. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 66.64 (998/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/lol at “speaker” yesterday. i was getting high scores for pianist, violinist and my highest for soloist. totally got me in a the wrong space. needed to go back down and work up again.
― Fizzles, Friday, 11 March 2022 06:46 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #41 in 44 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.69. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 43.43 (981/1000).
got agency + department after a dozen guesses, which led in a straight line towards boss and it was a lot easier going than yesterday.
― calzino, Friday, 11 March 2022 06:52 (two years ago) link
people who got to ‘speaker’ via hi fi means are very fortunate! i spent forever trying to think of obscure parliamentary terms (admittedly i should have thought of speaker sooner).
also makes me think that sometimes word2vec is better at polysemy than other times (i guess more equal representation of each meaning in its reference marerial?)
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Friday, 11 March 2022 08:37 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #41 in 34 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.30. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #32. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.06 (155/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
one more like this and my average might get below 150!
― ledge, Friday, 11 March 2022 09:00 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #41 in 52 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.84. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 43.68 (983/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Friday, 11 March 2022 14:13 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #41 in 53 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -9.65. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 31.24 (888/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Tantalizing one - almost half my guesses were in the green, actually got #998 at guess 25
― Nhex, Friday, 11 March 2022 15:44 (two years ago) link
92. God damn all of you guys!
― emil.y, Friday, 11 March 2022 15:47 (two years ago) link
i had actually quit playing for a few days, given up early because I was getting frustrated, but yesterday I did a speed run where instead of thinking about it, I just rapid fire started guessing words, and that seemed to help a lot. that and the path being a little more linear.
think when I move slower, I tend to just do the synonym olympics rather than being instinctual
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 March 2022 15:51 (two years ago) link
satisfying 29 today, just pipped by two of my friends by one guess which is a little less satisfying
― nxd, Friday, 11 March 2022 16:37 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #41 in 103 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -0.99. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #80. (!!!!!!!!!).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.35 (560/1000).What the hell! I never had so much trouble getting a decent score in - first 15+ word at guess #35.why though do we get a very similar word to the one we had yesterday?
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Friday, 11 March 2022 18:40 (two years ago) link
“similar” depends on your vector i think (again i use vector irresponsibly). unless you mean “a noun”.
― Fizzles, Friday, 11 March 2022 19:36 (two years ago) link
see yermans point about “feedback” and me being stuck on “soloist”
― Fizzles, Friday, 11 March 2022 19:45 (two years ago) link
one thing i’ve found myself doing quite early on, without any sense of whether it’s a viable heuristic, is do “city” and “country” or sometimes “urban” and “rural” to divide between “natural” and intensively human spheres. both of the last two days have been “city” based definitely but not sure that makes them the same as such.
― Fizzles, Friday, 11 March 2022 19:54 (two years ago) link
another one is whether things are spatial (geography) or time based (history). please to be clear my success rate is rubbish. however i will stick to my superstitious success heuristics. #cargocult
― Fizzles, Friday, 11 March 2022 19:57 (two years ago) link
please Fizzles don’t spoiler!
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Friday, 11 March 2022 20:02 (two years ago) link
as in you’re openly responding to my hidden comment
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Friday, 11 March 2022 20:03 (two years ago) link
oh no! i didn’t think i was. didn’t feel opened up in any meaningful way?
― Fizzles, Friday, 11 March 2022 20:09 (two years ago) link
both are about yesterdays?
― Fizzles, Friday, 11 March 2022 20:10 (two years ago) link
my comment most certainly wasn’t
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Friday, 11 March 2022 20:14 (two years ago) link
want to address your points too, but I’ll wait till after the next game is out
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Friday, 11 March 2022 20:16 (two years ago) link
the word yesterday was so similar to day before's that I bailed on that I guessed the day before's word, thinking I needed to refresh my cookies or something
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 March 2022 20:20 (two years ago) link
sure but my comment was about your invisible comment and i don’t think anyone is going to be able to divine the solution from my comment unless they reveal yours.
― Fizzles, Friday, 11 March 2022 20:31 (two years ago) link
an xpost.
― Fizzles, Friday, 11 March 2022 20:32 (two years ago) link
the thing to do is not open the thread until you've done that day's puzzle
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 11 March 2022 20:49 (two years ago) link
the point of hidden texts is that even if you do open it up you won’t get spoilers. people have been adhering to this and it was working very well.why are we having this discussion?
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Friday, 11 March 2022 20:59 (two years ago) link
i have no idea! i’m a bit lost!
― Fizzles, Friday, 11 March 2022 21:05 (two years ago) link
reread my comments and i don’t see it. as you might see upthread i was being extremely cautious and apologetic about the extreme use of hidden text tags.
― Fizzles, Friday, 11 March 2022 21:07 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #42 in 88 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -2.59. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #70. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 38.25 (599/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
lots of blundering around, first green was in the high 800s (think it was “meal”), second was #999, “meat” - from there it was pretty straightforward - anticipating low scores today!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Saturday, 12 March 2022 00:24 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #42 in 24 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.17. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 49.60 (961/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Saturday, 12 March 2022 00:30 (two years ago) link
19 guesses, nice easy run today: country - rural - cow - milk - beef - FOUND
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 12 March 2022 00:46 (two years ago) link
i almost always guess food related shit cos it's dinner time when I play here, so it actually being about food made it easy
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Saturday, 12 March 2022 01:12 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #42 in 65 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.56. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 65.42 (997/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Took me longer than it should have tbh but my first three greens were whiskey, wine and bourbon which led me down the wrong path for a while
― Roz, Saturday, 12 March 2022 01:15 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #42 in 70 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.11. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #20. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 13.68.
pie >> food (at guess 52) >> vegetables >> meat >> FOUND
Three decent scores in a row, it does feel more forgiving.
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Saturday, 12 March 2022 01:29 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #42 in 48 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -0.94. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #9. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 65.42 (997/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
i was literally just thinking, as i was walking over to my laptop to do the semantle, carrying a muffin, "i wonder if there's ever gonna be a food semantle" but i still waited until 9 to guess "food." i then guess "muffin" which wasn't in the green.
― ✖, Saturday, 12 March 2022 03:14 (two years ago) link
Found it in 32, first guess in green was 999/1000
― JoeStork, Saturday, 12 March 2022 04:08 (two years ago) link
Found it in 36, got from animal to chicken very quickly then dicked around with all manner of farmyard animals for a while before realising the animal and the meat have the same word.
― ledge, Saturday, 12 March 2022 08:07 (two years ago) link
I've got to 999 on my 13th guess which is a record for me, but lets see how many more it takes
― calzino, Saturday, 12 March 2022 09:02 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #42 in 25 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.58. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 49.83 (964/1000).
― calzino, Saturday, 12 March 2022 09:30 (two years ago) link
I had just browned some diced beef when I started today's so it was a lucky guess to get in early
― calzino, Saturday, 12 March 2022 09:34 (two years ago) link
i got semantle #42 in 40 guesses.
in today's pimantle i put in quaternion as a silly guess and it turned out to be #17
― adam t. (abanana), Saturday, 12 March 2022 09:59 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #42 in 101 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.97. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 66.01 (998/1000).
As someone easily amused, I did chuckle when things like 'supper (cold)', 'kebab (cold)' kept appearing.
― Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 12 March 2022 10:14 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #42 in 19 guesses. My best score so far, by some distance (I think my previous best was 62).My first guess had a similarity of 8.07. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11 with “cattle”, straight in at 897. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 55.25 (985/1000).lol I tried Fizzles’ urban-rural thing, and zooom! “rural” 17.32 > “farm” 31.92 > “cattle” 897/100
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Saturday, 12 March 2022 10:20 (two years ago) link
this total lack of frustration and struggle today is disappointing tbh. It's a buzz to hit a high green early but not 999 ffs!
― calzino, Saturday, 12 March 2022 10:24 (two years ago) link
As for yesterday’s minor kerfuffle (so a kerfizzle then?), there aren’t many metrics by which “speaker” and “manager” aren’t similar kinds of words, even within the subcategory of nouns. I had a score of 967 for “president” the day before yesterday, and yesterday it scored 966. Same thing for “chairman/woman/person”.I do also feel that nouns in general seem to be extremely overrepresented in this game. More verbs, prepositions, adverbs, et cetera, I say. Make the word categories more unpredictable.
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Saturday, 12 March 2022 10:27 (two years ago) link
did I miss a rare clusterfizzle? blimey whatever next. Some fair points there about how this puzzle could be improved.
― calzino, Saturday, 12 March 2022 10:37 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #42 in 54 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.69. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #44. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 65.42 (997/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 12 March 2022 10:58 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #42 in 52 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.18. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #41. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 41.08 (784/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Saturday, 12 March 2022 13:24 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #42 in 147 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.73. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #51. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 40.92 (772/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Feel like today's was very easy to get, but my brain just wouldn't skip to the right answer. Had pretty much all of the top ten greens, but not the actual target!
― emil.y, Saturday, 12 March 2022 14:37 (two years ago) link
Also I was very sad because my path went from animal -> pet -> the correct area. Don't want to eat my pets ;_;
― emil.y, Saturday, 12 March 2022 14:39 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #42 in 13 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.70. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.58. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 12 March 2022 14:57 (two years ago) link
guess #4 was fish which got me quickly to beef & meat the closest greens possible
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 12 March 2022 14:59 (two years ago) link
Messed around with lots of forms of potato after I got that and 'roast' early on, plus many other typically roasted vegetables, before trying the holy quaternity of chicken, beef, pork (then would've been lamb)
― kinder, Saturday, 12 March 2022 18:39 (two years ago) link
I got Semantle #43 in 27 -- y'all are gonna get it way faster than me as usual, I'll bet
― sarahell, Sunday, 13 March 2022 00:33 (two years ago) link
nah i had a shocker! 117 guesses
first greens were all mealtimes so i got super stuck trying to think of variations on “lunch”!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Sunday, 13 March 2022 00:38 (two years ago) link
i have a tendency to start with words related to building systems and guessed "vent" and "door" and when "door" was closer than "vent" i guessed "welcome" and then was close
― sarahell, Sunday, 13 March 2022 00:44 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #43 in 86 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.09. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #17 (948/1000). My penultimate guess had a similarity of 31.39 (579/1000).
Should have been about 50-something. I faffed about with the military after “salute” at guess 17.
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Sunday, 13 March 2022 00:56 (two years ago) link
utterly lost, have 8 answers in the green up to 819 but i feel like i'm at a dead end and have to start over
― ✖, Sunday, 13 March 2022 02:07 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #43 in 179 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.16. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #42. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 33.54 (736/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
frustrating! i went through every verb in the world. went observe>pray>celebrate>bless and then got stuck on the concept of worship and admiration for 7 hours
― ✖, Sunday, 13 March 2022 02:20 (two years ago) link
I got it in 40! What a fun game, thank you for this thread - I’ve never heard of it.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Sunday, 13 March 2022 03:11 (two years ago) link
I am a computer programmer so I guess yes. Yes I can.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Sunday, 13 March 2022 03:12 (two years ago) link
I ate shit on this one, hit 100 without a green.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 13 March 2022 04:19 (two years ago) link
147 - not great despite hitting green on my very first guess. Got led astray by a bunch of fancy meal-related guesses like "toast", "banquet", "luncheon", "brunch", "fete" etc. and didn't get close until I finally guessed "reception"
― Roz, Sunday, 13 March 2022 07:57 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #43 in 283 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -2.36. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #54. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 41.07 (948/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
This one was absolutely brutal for me. Fumbled around with schmooze, meet, etc. etc. for 200 guesses. Didn't get it until I got reception>toast>salute. Ugh!
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Sunday, 13 March 2022 14:43 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #43 in 108 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -0.93. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #15. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.17. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:36 (two years ago) link
p lost until guess 99 hello
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:37 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #43 in 197 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.50. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #26. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 7.05.
I had greeting 25 guesses ago 🤡.
― calzino, Sunday, 13 March 2022 16:03 (two years ago) link
Oh thank god most of the rest of you struggled with this one too. I was expecting my usual thing of opening up the thread to find everyone got it in under 30, where I was stuck until 161.
― emil.y, Sunday, 13 March 2022 16:39 (two years ago) link
Took me over 70 to get to 986, another 100 to get to 996 and I'm still stuck.
― ledge, Sunday, 13 March 2022 18:29 (two years ago) link
took fucking ages despite getting a green at about guess 32 and guessing a variation of the word about 100 guesses before i hit the right one. and in the meantime a whole ilx clusterfuck had been born, lived and died (idk i haven't actually read to the end of the threads but it felt like an eternity to do today's Semantle)
― kinder, Sunday, 13 March 2022 19:19 (two years ago) link
53 today, got a good green after only 7 guesses but found myself in a rut for ages
― nxd, Sunday, 13 March 2022 20:18 (two years ago) link
Gave up, should have got it. I blame brain fog after hosting a six year old's birthday party.
― ledge, Sunday, 13 March 2022 21:03 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #44 in 136 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 16.93. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #33. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.19 (736/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
lotta greens in the 900s, satisfying to ultimately get it
― johnny crunch, Monday, 14 March 2022 00:19 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #44 in 25 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.43. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 11.50. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 14 March 2022 00:26 (two years ago) link
stuck at 995. so done
― hrep (H.P), Monday, 14 March 2022 00:34 (two years ago) link
998 now. painful
― hrep (H.P), Monday, 14 March 2022 00:35 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #44 in 44 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.92. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 5.58.
was thinking about horseracing and farming after "field" and was sort of on the right ...erm... thing
― calzino, Monday, 14 March 2022 00:42 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #44 in 37 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.20. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #28. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.80 (780/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Phew. Was really ready to have a non-horrible Semantle experience.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Monday, 14 March 2022 01:11 (two years ago) link
100 todayfun one
― nxd, Monday, 14 March 2022 01:33 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #44 in 57 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.77. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #18. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 30.09 (910/1000).
Five straight games under 100, I'll take it.
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Monday, 14 March 2022 01:41 (two years ago) link
A green in the 800s in my very first guess... but then took another 60 to get there
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 14 March 2022 03:25 (two years ago) link
997/1000 is a word I've never even heard of!
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 14 March 2022 03:31 (two years ago) link
ha woo yeah that’s an odd one
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Monday, 14 March 2022 04:15 (two years ago) link
It's probably only used in reference to the dirt on a horse track I guess?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 14 March 2022 04:51 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #44 in 33 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.47. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 32.25 (943/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 14 March 2022 08:20 (two years ago) link
i’m a bit surprised that horse-related meanings push trains so far down the list - maybe the computer reads an awful lot of the Racing News or something?
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Monday, 14 March 2022 08:39 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #44 in 34 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.16. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #9. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 16.07. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― ledge, Monday, 14 March 2022 09:42 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #44 in 47 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.24. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 24.96 (718/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
This one probably has a lot of different ways to get there.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Monday, 14 March 2022 11:30 (two years ago) link
Gave up on yesterday’s puzzle. Got into the green (417) with “ceremony” at guess #17 and then nothing but agonizing religious slavering until I finally improved it at guess #112 with “pray” (673). I sort of sensed religion was not the answer, and neither were funerals, but I got stuck again. All it would have taken was a simple hello…
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Monday, 14 March 2022 12:22 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #44 in 95 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 16.56. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #36. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 28.94 (883/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 14 March 2022 15:24 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #44 in 171 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.95. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #73. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 24.49 (686/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Fucked up twice today. Firstly, I usually have sport as one of my starting guesses and forgot to use it today. Would have been straight in the green. Secondly, I thought I'd already tried the target word! So I was purposefully doing related things until I realised I hadn't actually typed that one in.
― emil.y, Monday, 14 March 2022 17:42 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #44 in 148 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 18.35. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 6.93. https://semantle.novalis.org/
My first green word was "weather" at 500/1000 which really led me astray, hence 142 guesses to win...
― Nhex, Monday, 14 March 2022 17:44 (two years ago) link
got #44 in 18 guesses after a lucky green at guess no. 3
― kinder, Monday, 14 March 2022 18:05 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #45 in 81 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.28. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 10.20. https://semantle.novalis.org/
mostly lost today but a few of my mid greens arc & arch led me to the word
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 00:19 (two years ago) link
#45 -- back to my old slow self at 143 guesses -- i had the same two mid greens johnny did but also terms i associated with baseball and still am unclear why those are close to the word except for maybe the fact that there are probably a lot of articles about sports in the dataset used to determine proximity
― sarahell, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 00:28 (two years ago) link
#45 took me 104. Got bogged down with blank - emptiness - cosmos - universe - galaxy, as one does.
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 01:38 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #45 in 67 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 17.71. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #19. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 4.70. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Once again, took longer than usual cause I’d already guessed a different version of the word earlier.
But I’m happy to back under 100 guesses! Yesterday’s was brutal for me.
― Roz, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 02:23 (two years ago) link
The worst I've ever done. 150 in without a green.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 03:05 (two years ago) link
Gave up, after getting a couple of greens that were of no help. I did guess 'square', which you'd think would be high up in the greens, but it was cold.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 03:51 (two years ago) link
like if yr green guesses were field, blue, sky, infield, ball, fence, arc, arch, plus pitch, dugout, and crowd around 19% ...
― sarahell, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 04:22 (two years ago) link
idk what do the rest of you think about it seeming like sports terms are often closer to the word than you would think if you were just thinking about words
― sarahell, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 04:24 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #45 in 82 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.26. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #9. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 10.70.
I was thinking about planets and the cosmos and was going along a moon, universe, orb route to cracking it
― calzino, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 06:52 (two years ago) link
my first high but non-green was "dancing" so that was my route: pirouetting, twirling, spinning, whirling before making the jump to adjacent words
― Roz, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 08:12 (two years ago) link
got there eventually but that was my worst ever score
forgive myself for not seeing a path through my first greens - lamp, sky, blue, neat, heaven and - at 973! - crease?!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 08:55 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #45 in 80 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.18. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #39. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.97.first green was garden after "flower" got quite high. lots of fence/ boundary related guesses after that i think my brain is slowly adjusting to moving to the right sort of tangents - at times.
― kinder, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 09:07 (two years ago) link
Got it in 124, this game is perverse. Why universe, galaxy, sky, moon but not planet, star, satellite, sun? Why triangle and rectangle but not square? Why arc but not curve? Why not shape or round?
― ledge, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 09:37 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #45 in 263 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.69. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #58. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 23.97 (152/1000).
this was a slog, only got it with the help of a thesaurus.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 10:37 (two years ago) link
37 today, not too bad considering it took 29 to hit green
― nxd, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 11:21 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #45 in 46 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.29. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #37. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 6.30. https://semantle.novalis.org/
I only had two not particularly high greens moon and orbit, tried several more space-related terms without success, then hit the word from there. Weird one for me.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 12:19 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #45 in 7 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.61. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 11.51. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Ahahahahahahaaaaa. It's a semi-regular starting guess for me, for some reason. But I don't like getting them too quick, it takes all the fun out of the game.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 14:11 (two years ago) link
Yes, but nice juice to your stats once in a while!
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 14:17 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #45 in 121 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.85. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #9. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 16.08. https://semantle.novalis.org/
One of the worst played so far. Why is "front" at #796? Why are "blue", "sky" and "bracket" in the top 1000?
― Nhex, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 14:29 (two years ago) link
189 guesses and still plugging away. I have 8 greens and a few that seemed to be promising paths, but only hitting dead ends so far.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 15:17 (two years ago) link
Lately I've been bailing at around 100 guesses if I'm in the middle of the green with no improvement. Rarely do I see the answer and think 'oh I would have gotten there eventually'. I'm impressed by you all.
― Sam Weller, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 15:26 (two years ago) link
Because it's not about synonyms, it's about words that you are most likely to find in a newspaper article where the target word also features.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 15:26 (two years ago) link
― sarahell, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 04:24 (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah and not just common sports terms but arcane ones like 'deking' and 'carom', wtf.
― ledge, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 15:34 (two years ago) link
I tapped out at around 350 guesses, just wasn't getting there. Somewhat kicking myself now though.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 15:54 (two years ago) link
Because it's not about synonyms, it's about words that you are most likely to find in a newspaper article where the target word also features
anagram otm ...this is part of the challenge! (not saying it isn't worth complaining about)
― sarahell, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 17:07 (two years ago) link
what is close answer #989 about
― nxd, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 17:22 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #45 in 89 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 15.30. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #51 with “field” (709). And then, around guess #77, I realized, “hey, there’s a sports opening here!”, and I was most of the way there, because half of the time there’s a sports connection, right? Still, I plucked the target word out of thin air really. Good for me, I guess, after two consecutive non-finishes.
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 17:28 (two years ago) link
funny how everyone today is grumbling about the disproportionately big sports bias in the target words
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 18:00 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #45 in 147 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.85. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #65. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 27.53 (711/1000).
so many contexts to today's word, so not surprised it took me a while. My 1st green was 'pond', and rather than think "they are often round" I reeled off a list of things found in parks and gardens and finally hit on 'pyramid' which led me on to the various shapes.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 19:23 (two years ago) link
before i started guessing words related to sports i had gotten sky, blue and field so i had a bunch of guesses related to painting then i started on parks/outdoor recreation areas
― sarahell, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 19:51 (two years ago) link
Having failed miserably on the last one, I got #46 in a mere 17 guesses, having hit a high green on my third guess. Having looked at the list of greens, I think most people are going to find this one easier than yesterday's
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 00:08 (two years ago) link
omg
199 guesses
The big key guesses, in order of closeness, were: monologue -> harmony -> descant (?!) -> chorus -> prayer -> samsara (?! I get it now) and then it was about a hundred random dead-ends before pyramid got me on the right track
― flow, my crimson tears (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 00:25 (two years ago) link
Holy crap I just guessed it in 5!
Guess #2 was time, guess #4 was space, and then I got it.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 00:30 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 45 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 17.53. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 56.85 (998/1000).
I went through a stage of thinking why is North scoring higher than S + E + W and remembered junior school geography: Never Eat Shredded Wheat.
― calzino, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 01:49 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 43 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.47. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 42.96 (965/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
I had to get less specific instead of more in the end.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 01:52 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 34 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.98. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 14.30.
Average guesses across all games: 195.70Down from 250 at #38
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 02:01 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 68 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 15.14. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6 urban. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 56.85 (998/1000).
ty ilx
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 02:06 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 115 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.80. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 16.83. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Phew, not as grim as yesterday but still slow going - albeit I did always feel like I was getting closer. Need to practice my leaps of intuition!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 02:37 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 157 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.41. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 24.14.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 08:12 (two years ago) link
my first guess was green! I solved Semantle #46 in 22 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 28.99 (585/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 17.30. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― kinder, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 09:25 (two years ago) link
Weird one - needed only two greens.
I solved Semantle #46 in 42 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.58. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #31. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 3.99. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― Roz, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 09:35 (two years ago) link
Well whaddya know.
I solved Semantle #46 in 4 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.19. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 9.88.
― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 09:41 (two years ago) link
FOUR?! I was proud of seven a couple of weeks ago!
― kinder, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 09:48 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 56 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 15.44. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 28.99 (585/1000).
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 09:52 (two years ago) link
Found it in 37, average guesses across all games:120.00.Wonder how fizzles will get on with this one... I was caught up in specifics for a while (city, suburbs, downtown) before zooming out.
― ledge, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 10:08 (two years ago) link
Four guesses is wild!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 10:18 (two years ago) link
I know, blind luck. Though I do tend to use the answer as one of my early guesses on most days, so it just happened to be the winner today.
― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 10:21 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 54 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -0.59. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 33.91 (859/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Pretty straight forward and probably lots of ways to get there.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 10:46 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 12 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.32. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 32.16 (790/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
two 4's ! wow, took me 3x as long lol
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 11:25 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 34 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 32.27 (797/1000) with “rural”. Once again, Fizzles’ rural-urban opening gambit served me well, although that super score for “rural” had me thinking I was basically there already. Good thing I reminded myself to check out “urban” as well, just to make sure.
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 13:33 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 3 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 18.51. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 28.22 (517/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
how
― von kelson, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 13:40 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 65 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.90. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #14. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 53.97 (995/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 14:35 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 25 guesses.
These last two have been far too fast. 25 at least feels like it involved some work on my part, though, so I can be proud of it. 7 was completely random.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 14:58 (two years ago) link
The very weird close words 476-474 have given me the title of my new sexy mystery novel: Spadefoot in Cockloft
― emil.y, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 15:02 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 23 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.02. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 33.14 (828/1000).
― nxd, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 16:36 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #47 in 67 guesses. Average guesses: 90.95.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 17 March 2022 00:32 (two years ago) link
Got it in 44. Had 986/1000 on my 4th guess, but it took another 40 to get there.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 17 March 2022 00:50 (two years ago) link
currently at guess 156 with #978, #987, #988, #996 and #997 -- i am very not good at this game
― sarahell, Thursday, 17 March 2022 03:35 (two years ago) link
lol - 188 guesses and finally got #47 - it makes sense now that philosophy and rational were high in addition to the numerous synonyms
― sarahell, Thursday, 17 March 2022 03:48 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #47 in 120 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.67. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #97. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 48.97 (996/1000).
Not excelling at this game lately!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Thursday, 17 March 2022 06:49 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #47 in 48 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.55. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16, straight in at 986 with “strategy”, and “goal” at #37 got me to 996. In conclusion, I could have gotten there a wee bit quicker than I did. But nice to have such a straightforward one.
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Thursday, 17 March 2022 06:59 (two years ago) link
zome zerious Zelda Zonk zynchronicity going on today, I zee!
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Thursday, 17 March 2022 07:02 (two years ago) link
Indeed, and I got the 996 as well!
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 17 March 2022 07:07 (two years ago) link
very much included that in my zynchronicity azzezzment
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Thursday, 17 March 2022 07:09 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #47 in 218 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.35. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #142. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 8.77.
another hard slog, I think I'm getting worse at this
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 17 March 2022 08:20 (two years ago) link
some just seem to be harder than others. after a high green at guess 10 i'm now over 200 and just plugging in words randomly.
― ledge, Thursday, 17 March 2022 09:38 (two years ago) link
going to start guessing some obscure american sports terms. jart, ganker, plex, truntle...
― ledge, Thursday, 17 March 2022 09:55 (two years ago) link
oh fuck
― ledge, Thursday, 17 March 2022 10:09 (two years ago) link
got it in 253; tenth guess was philosophy at 850, given that the subj/obj distinction is one of my perennial concerns in that area i might have fluked it a bit sooner.
― ledge, Thursday, 17 March 2022 10:15 (two years ago) link
discovered the secret: since catching covid, i've got all of these in under 60 guesses, and mostly under 40
― devvvine, Thursday, 17 March 2022 10:45 (two years ago) link
Semantle: Can you think like a covid-19?
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Thursday, 17 March 2022 11:05 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #47 in 74 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 20.22. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #27. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 32.46 (902/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Came in from view and opinion so had to flip it around a bit.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Thursday, 17 March 2022 13:06 (two years ago) link
surrendered today, had greens of 993, 996, 997 but could not crack it
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 17 March 2022 13:58 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #47 in 77 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.99. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #53. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.92 (416/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Came in from concentrate -> focus -> target, thankfully I missed any philosophy-related words or I might have been stuck guessing completely irrelevant stuff for ages.
― emil.y, Thursday, 17 March 2022 14:45 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #47 in 401 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.81. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #25. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 14.33. https://semantle.novalis.org/
That was ugly, but I didn't want to give up. And, yep, got caught in a philosophy related rabbit hole for far too long.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:27 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #47 in 79 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.96. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 46.51 (993/1000).
started this after midnight and was aimlessly going through synonyms of success. I cracked it this morning in a more computer like state of mind.
― calzino, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:29 (two years ago) link
“Synonyms of Success”, now there’s a title of a bestseller waiting to happen!
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:08 (two years ago) link
title *for*
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:11 (two years ago) link
I guess
Paradoxes of Failure sounds a better title!
― calzino, Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:29 (two years ago) link
Puzzle #47: Gave up at 268 guesses today. Nearest words didn't help at all
― Nhex, Thursday, 17 March 2022 17:02 (two years ago) link
[Hidden text. Tap to view] sounds a better title!
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Thursday, 17 March 2022 17:06 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #48 in 74 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.94. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.97. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Ok could have been worse - got very stuck in teaching/telling words before making a leap to making words - once again, I have to remember not to get too fixated on the first green
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Friday, 18 March 2022 00:29 (two years ago) link
A hell of a lot more long-winded than it needed to be, but got it in 134. My way in: work (in the mid-greens) - employ - utilize - deploy - install - create - construct - build - FOUND!
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 18 March 2022 00:51 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #48 in 101 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.62. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 15.60. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― johnny crunch, Friday, 18 March 2022 00:52 (two years ago) link
Starting to get more of a feel what the guesses mean - a high cold/low green may be helpful in terms of whether it's an object or abstract concept you're after, and whether it's a noun/verb/adjective/adverb. Mid greens may give you a very general feel for the area, but it's only when you get into the 980s that you're really getting a clearer idea of what it is. And even then...
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 18 March 2022 01:00 (two years ago) link
Didn't hit inside 900 until guess 200
I solved Semantle #48 in 242 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.34. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #45. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 39.75 (957/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 18 March 2022 01:01 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #48 in 45 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 21.98. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 12.39.
I can think like a computer almost every day now, despite being a dyslexic who left school at 15!
― calzino, Friday, 18 March 2022 01:47 (two years ago) link
first guess was place, 6th guess was organise. I had a good start here.
― calzino, Friday, 18 March 2022 01:51 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #48 in 60 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.76. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 42.95 (974/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Not too bad - average guesses down to 136.6 now from 176 last week. Still only one “give up”.
― Roz, Friday, 18 March 2022 04:35 (two years ago) link
(I solved Semantle #47 in 74 guesses.)
I solved Semantle #48 in 20 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.55. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 20.99.
Very lucky to get build 48.93 992/1000 at guess #6. Very fun, though!
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Friday, 18 March 2022 04:55 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #48 in 562 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.74. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #34. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 23.51.
Oof. I resorted to googling synonyms.
― adam t. (abanana), Friday, 18 March 2022 05:11 (two years ago) link
562, now that's real dedication! I tend to give up if I haven't got it by 200 guesses.
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 18 March 2022 05:23 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #48 in 49 guesses.
A fluke, nothing till guess 48, then 993/1000 then bingo.
― ledge, Friday, 18 March 2022 08:34 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #48 in 48 guesses.
Lucky with getting early greens lately.
― Sam Weller, Friday, 18 March 2022 10:15 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #48 in 141 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.14. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #61. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 48.93 (992/1000).
That might be most greens (18) to get there, as there are so many words relating to work, offices, being a manager and arranging meetings.
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 18 March 2022 10:33 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #48 in 36 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -9.42. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #14. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.42. https://semantle.novalis.org/
My wife shouted the answer to me as I was thinking out loud.
I've been on a run and I am within sight of getting my average guesses below 100.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Friday, 18 March 2022 11:55 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #48 in 98 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.25. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #71 with “work” (636/1000). *WHAT IF* I had tried that word right after “job”, my guess #7? But you know, that one scored 7.73 🤷🏻♂️
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Friday, 18 March 2022 13:33 (two years ago) link
108 today. Not bad, but got stuck in a bit of a synonym rut again.
― emil.y, Friday, 18 March 2022 14:02 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #48 in 63 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 16.29. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 3.44. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 March 2022 14:21 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #48 in 66 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.70. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 47.89 (991/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― nxd, Friday, 18 March 2022 17:15 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #49 in 30 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 15.66. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #17. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 63.15 (998/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Most straightforward for a while, for me.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Saturday, 19 March 2022 00:49 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #49 in 156 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.42. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #9 fish, 507/1000. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 8.16. https://semantle.novalis.org/
That first word in the top 1000 threw me way off. No idea how it's related.
― adam t. (abanana), Saturday, 19 March 2022 01:01 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #39 in 53 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.50. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #15. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 58.75 (998/10
― calzino, Saturday, 19 March 2022 01:17 (two years ago) link
I did it all on my phone and it printed an old one from the clipboard
― calzino, Saturday, 19 March 2022 01:22 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #49 in 55 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.22. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #22. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 27.76. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― calzino, Saturday, 19 March 2022 01:23 (two years ago) link
once it seemed obviously to be cooking pan related it was a piece of piss
― calzino, Saturday, 19 March 2022 01:28 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #49 in 105 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 15.17. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #100. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 63.15 (998/1000).
Guesses 100 -- weed (964/1000) -- through 105-FOUND, were the only ones in the "green".
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Saturday, 19 March 2022 02:02 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #49 in 211 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.59. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #15. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 11.11.
― Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 19 March 2022 10:36 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #49 in 252 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.46. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10 with “flower” and guess #11 got me as high as 657 with “garden”. Than “bulb”>”tuber”>”herb” (989! at #125!). Tried all kinds of gardening and food/cooking stuff, got lots and lots of greens (fittingly!), but was only thinking of the edibles (!) themselves and forgot about the utensils, until I tried “pan”, which turned out to be…my penultimate guess - it had a similarity of 37.06 (928/1000).Have to say, although it was my worst score ever, I thoroughly enjoyed this one. Don’t think I’d ever gone beyond 150 guesses without giving up, but it was fun (rather than frustrating) just to keep the greens coming (I racked up 53 in the end, got me real hungry!) in the knowledge that it was probably going to be the most basic word imaginable (I had seen there were quite a number of low scores).Seeing the list with closest words made it even more fun. To think that “rhubarb” was the closest non-drugs-related word!
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Saturday, 19 March 2022 11:02 (two years ago) link
Solved in 122, bit of a weird one, took me a while to get to herb, various varieties of which were all high greens, took a detour through houseplants and I could have got it from there, instead I went 'herb... cannabis!'
― ledge, Saturday, 19 March 2022 11:06 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #49 in 56 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.30. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #26. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 28.95 (230/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
I'm not sure how I got there how I did. soup was my closest and I had barely any greens.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Saturday, 19 March 2022 12:47 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #49 in 95 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.19. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #24. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 29.36 (312/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
first green was herb & then took a while to guess marijuana & then had a real block thinking of synonyms of that lol
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 19 March 2022 13:36 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #49 in 85 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 17.10. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #35. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 23.63. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Lol, my path was: DRUG scored high but not in the green, HERB was the first green so I thought "oh, so it's not actually drugs" and tried a bunch of actual herbs, then MARIJUANA hit super-high -> "oh shit, it *was* drugs after all" -> tried every synonym and a bunch of other drug-related terms until *finally* I came up with the right one. Was surprised it was that one as I would've thought cooking-related terms would be much higher than drug-related terms in that case.
I also really have a bad case of "think of every synonym except the right one" for all of these games.
― emil.y, Saturday, 19 March 2022 15:10 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #49 in 23 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 20.78. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #20. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 26.96.
― Sam Weller, Saturday, 19 March 2022 15:46 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #49 in 93 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.89. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #55. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 35.59 (891/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 19 March 2022 16:44 (two years ago) link
Pimantel #25 was a bad and awful experience for me. my 77th guess (and first in the top thousand) was "barrel" (15/1000). by my 110th guess I'd convinced myself that the secret word must have something to do with oil, so I racked up a bunch of high ranking words like "hydrocarbon" (56/1000), "refinery" (26/1000), and "crude" (9/1000 ffs) until it occurred to me to try "barrels". I generally only go for plurals when I'm frustrated and feel like mashing some keys with little expectation off success. I think I'd prefer it if plurals were excluded from the secret word pool, though I guess that would compromise the robotic purity of the exercise
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Saturday, 19 March 2022 19:29 (two years ago) link
(forgot to say that I ended up solving it in 149 guesses)
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Saturday, 19 March 2022 19:31 (two years ago) link
i swear to god i am going to guess every single fkn green in #50 (excepting the target word, naturally)
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Sunday, 20 March 2022 05:11 (two years ago) link
I got in 30!
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 20 March 2022 05:23 (two years ago) link
arrrrgh!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Sunday, 20 March 2022 05:30 (two years ago) link
If you want a hint: think about the Ukrainians!
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 20 March 2022 05:42 (two years ago) link
Thanks ZZ - I had to give up before I saw this, it was wrecking my day!
i reckon i probably got 300 greens, they were mostly vanquish/conquer/triumph kind of words - there are a lot of these, we must be a very warlike bunch - and i got a few hints of something positive/reactive - absorb, ignore - but anyway glad to be out of it, stats be damned!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Sunday, 20 March 2022 07:31 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #50 in 58 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.09. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 34.25 (775/1000).
quite straightforward today, first green was stop and it was nearly all greens thereafter.
― calzino, Sunday, 20 March 2022 08:36 (two years ago) link
i swear to god i am going to guess every single fkn green in #50 (excepting the target word, naturally)It me
― ledge, Sunday, 20 March 2022 08:39 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #50 in 26 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.32. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12 with “face” (388), and then “confront” (976) two guesses later.My penultimate guess had a similarity of 24.57.
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Sunday, 20 March 2022 09:18 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #50 in 107 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -4.60. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.37.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 20 March 2022 09:30 (two years ago) link
Got in in 133 with ZZ's hint. My top three guesses were ignore, reject, and tolerate which wasn't helpful in choosing between positive, negative, and neutral reactions. Though other guesses were leaning negative.
― ledge, Sunday, 20 March 2022 12:46 (two years ago) link
852/1000 is a mood.
― ledge, Sunday, 20 March 2022 13:34 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #50 in 304 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.04. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #21. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 48.48 (992/1000).
Stopping at 300 guesses, and having 991, 989, and 988 as top greens (out of many), I resorted to...ILX. I did not look at Zelda's hint or at anybody's hidden text. I checked 852/1000 to see if I had guessed it, but I had not. Was "a mood" a hint, I wondered. I tried to change my mindset -- to search for a mood in the form of a verb -- and four guesses later I found it.
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Sunday, 20 March 2022 14:06 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #50 in 160 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.78. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #49. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 24.60. https://semantle.novalis.org/
So much for my under 100 streak. This one was really hard for me. I had contemplate and consider forever and just got stuck in synonym land.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Sunday, 20 March 2022 14:56 (two years ago) link
256 today, first blip in a while also
― nxd, Sunday, 20 March 2022 15:00 (two years ago) link
lol, that took me 375. Oddly it stayed fun and not frustrating, as I meandered through a bunch of enjoyable word-chains.
― emil.y, Sunday, 20 March 2022 15:30 (two years ago) link
69/1000 lol
Took me 378 guesses, phew.
― kinder, Monday, 21 March 2022 00:01 (two years ago) link
61 guesses Languished in the low greens with plan, proposal, system etc., until I hit on school and it was pretty straightforward from there. A bit surprised my guesses book, textbook, schedule, timetable were all cold.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 21 March 2022 01:47 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #51 in 57 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.21. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #23. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 34.32 (730/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 21 March 2022 02:17 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #51 in 40 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.91. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 31.25 (572/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Good result for me, surprised at the word they went with this time - more unusual than most
― Nhex, Monday, 21 March 2022 02:41 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #51 in 74 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.22. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 34.03 (719/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Just glad to be in double figures after yesterday’s personal calamity.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Monday, 21 March 2022 04:06 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #51 in 105 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.65. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 5.26. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Thought this was going to be a quick one after landing 966/1000 on guess #10, but nope still needed nearly 100 more after that :/ one of those days where I got a lot of green guesses but not the actual word
― Roz, Monday, 21 March 2022 04:22 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #51 in 145 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.44. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #24. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.01.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 21 March 2022 08:22 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #51 in 72 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.02. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #21. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 33.43 (691/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Quite enjoyed this one, i had a lot of greens in the same area but not leading anywhere specific so i just kept on plugging away with as many terms in the same domain i could think of
― ledge, Monday, 21 March 2022 08:48 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #51 in 83 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -3.12. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 26.52 (99/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
I had a lot of very close greens and should have gotten it a lot earlier.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Monday, 21 March 2022 11:48 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #51 in 23 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 18.77. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 35.11 (765/1000).
― nxd, Monday, 21 March 2022 14:14 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #51 in 95 guesses.
Really thought I was going to finish much faster. This was, I believe, the first game where I thought of the concept of what the target word was but couldn't actually remember the word for it - my brain helpfully proposed "oh, you know, the whole gamut of schoolwork you have to do" - thanks, brain. Could have cut off at least 40 guesses if I'd sat back and waited for the word to come to mind instead of going ahead with my rapid-fire word association.
― emil.y, Monday, 21 March 2022 15:14 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #51 in 💯 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 16.06. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11 with “religion” (606/1000), followed by “theology” (904) at guess #29. Easy to see how this would steer me off the right path. Thankfully I was enlightened just in time to bag my first century.
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Monday, 21 March 2022 20:56 (two years ago) link
it took me 136 guesses for #51 -- this was one of the first ones where once I got on the right track sorry for pun I got it fairly quickly
― sarahell, Monday, 21 March 2022 22:06 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #52 in 215 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.38. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #45. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 3.79. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Brutal tangent on martial arts before I got on track
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 00:17 (two years ago) link
Completely stuck on #52 despite swimming in a sea of green, including 995/1000. I know what I'm looking for, but seem to have exhausted all possibilities...
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 00:43 (two years ago) link
Unbelievable!
I solved Semantle #52 in 4 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 35.48 (886/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 6.56.The first and possibly last time I got a green on my initial guess! That guess being origami.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 02:57 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #52 in 157 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 15.37. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.15. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Cor, I’m not sure if they are getting trickier of I am getting stupider.
Getting ‘kite’ at #995 relatively early fucked me right up - was convinced it must have been something wind-powered
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 03:29 (two years ago) link
Respect to the 4 guess achievement!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 03:30 (two years ago) link
Cheers, emsworth! I was so excited about it I accidentally posted about it on the wrong thread at first.
I obviously do my best thinking at about 2.40am. Need to rethink my life a bit!
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 08:39 (two years ago) link
odd route to today's and only got it through looking at synonyms - all of mine were "boat" related as boat was 990/1000 but no other vehicles I tried were green
― kinder, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 09:00 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #52 in 213 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 17.34. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #32. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 34.80 (874/1000).
Another nightmare, definitely getting worse at this
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 09:14 (two years ago) link
I have a lot of greens all in the same domain but like Zelda I can't get higher than 995, and it's the gaps that worry me - in between the greens that I do have, what's going on? Is there a completely unrelated domain that I haven't stumbled on and also matches the target word?
― ledge, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 09:21 (two years ago) link
Don't think I'm giving too much away by saying yes, ledge, there is!
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 09:28 (two years ago) link
In a word, yes! (I gave up in the end, although I had actually thought of the word and hadn't bothered to try it because I hadn't thought it likely!)
Xp
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 09:29 (two years ago) link
I had a million flying objects, and I also had hovercraft and spacecraft, but forgot the golden rule of this game which is that the answer is (usually) simpler than you think!
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 09:33 (two years ago) link
thought of another domain which has yielded a whole load more greens but got me no closer. i've managed to get five ???? words though! gyrocopter, wingsuit, jetski, lifejacket, windsurfer
― ledge, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 09:45 (two years ago) link
Am getting the feeling that people whose route into the green was along pottery/weaving lines are having an easier time than those stuck on aircraft/watercraft!
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 09:52 (two years ago) link
192, had to use a thesaurus and now i feel like an idiot. i knew what kind of word it probably was - synonym of vessel - but couldn't bring anything to mind.
― ledge, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 10:35 (two years ago) link
18, this was my best result ever!
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 11:45 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #52 in 96 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -2.41. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #36. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 59.96 (999/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
I fumbled around for a while, got stuck with assemble early, then got word 929 with guess 88 and it was short work from there.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 12:13 (two years ago) link
Re: Zelda's last hidden post - definitely! Despite a high-ish score I found it a pleasant ride.
I solved Semantle #52 in 114 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.50. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #23. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 52.25 (998/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Most of my wasted guesses were from 'music' being a fairly high non-green, and my first green being 'pluck' - spent so long trying out different ways of playing instruments, like an idiot. As soon as I got on the right track with 'weave' it was a reasonably straight walk to the finish.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:50 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #52 in 40 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 35.04 (879/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 59.96 (999/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
maybe should have done better considering my first guess was #879
― nxd, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #52 in 45 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.42. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #27. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 8.70. https://semantle.novalis.org/
"boat" was my link, lol. 990/1000!
― Nhex, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 16:43 (two years ago) link
i got #52 in 115 guesses (pretty good for me) ... i did a lot of wasted guesses because i had gotten into the green fairly early with poetry, writing, art, photography and skill at guess 92, which I would have thought would have been much higher. Also guess 101 technique I felt should have been in the green, and so I was actually surprised when the answer was the answer
― sarahell, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 16:52 (two years ago) link
Gave up today, got to #995 relatively quickly but got focused on aviation and couldn’t see beyond that.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:49 (two years ago) link
Crept up to 961 in 132 guesses. Now at #165 and still not getting anywhere. Close to giving up on this one.
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 19:27 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #52 in 178 guesses. Well, that was silly of me. I probably entered most cr*ft-related words, but apparently did not think to put the actual word “cr*ft” to the test for some reason.
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 19:38 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #53 in 51 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 33.66 (726/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 9.32. https://semantle.novalis.org/
think the highest first guess ive ever had, & then just danced around it but knew i had the right path
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 00:11 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #53 in 46 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.14. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #27. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 60.21 (997/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Phew that’s a bit better. Pretty straightforward from first green (‘kill’). Grateful to have it knocked over quickly but tbh kinda miss the gruelling attritional Test Match Semantle experience!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 00:20 (two years ago) link
57 guesses. Cold until 49, but got it quickly after my first green.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 01:23 (two years ago) link
76 guesses. Got thrown off by some high-but-not-green guesses early on, and pursued that line even though I knew it wouldn't get me anywhere.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 01:30 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #53 in 62 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.12. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 16.29.
another total fluke
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 08:09 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #53 in 46 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.40. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #20. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 23.47. https://semantle.novalis.org/
This was more like it. Got throw with guess 20 and gradually worked my way to it from there.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 11:58 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #53 in 67 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.40. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #35 with “jump” (726). My penultimate guess had a similarity of 40.66 (926/1000). Another sports one! Luckily not some obscure Americanism tho
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 12:02 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #53 in 60 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.71. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 26.06 (33/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
I got Shoot/997 at guess 52, after a whole lot of gun related guesses, luckily only took me eight more to twig that it might be a variation.
― ledge, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 13:06 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #53 in 62 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.16. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 60.21 (997/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 15:39 (two years ago) link
My first guess was a green - play.I tried tons of related words but only certain ones were getting close and ones like sport were not.Got there in about 70 after trying shoot and shooting
― kinder, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 16:15 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #53 in 70 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 27.38 (230/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 60.21 (997/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
First guess may have been green but it wasn't a particularly useful one. Took me a lot of meandering guessing to narrow it down.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
30 today, another good one, enjoyed the last run
― nxd, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 16:47 (two years ago) link
I feel like there's a certain kind of free association that can get you to the answer in a reasonable # of guesses a lot of the time, like once you get up into the high teens/low 20s, you can guess words that are semi-related but not quite synonyms and try going in different directions, and you often get closer and closer that way.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 16:52 (two years ago) link
A bit of a slog today, though got there in the end.
I solved Semantle #53 in 285 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.07. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #23. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 64.65 (998/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 17:41 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #53 in 82 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.76. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.05. Too many words to do with killing and weapons and of course I went through all the other verb forms before I hit on the right one.
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 17:43 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #54 in 63 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.05. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 29.27 (734/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
I hit 990 at 11 guesses, should have gotten this sooner
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 24 March 2022 00:06 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #54 in 46 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.62. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #25. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 11.11. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Given that part of the fun of games like this is second-guessing my mental processes… I might have got this quicker if I hadn’t been avoiding words/domains that I went through yesterday - the computer obviously doesn’t give a fuck but here’s me trying to be cunning by avoiding non-existent patterns.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Thursday, 24 March 2022 00:14 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #54 in 37 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.21. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 33.45 (856/1000).
After two quits and a skip, this was nice :-).
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Thursday, 24 March 2022 00:21 (two years ago) link
same, past two days were tough for me
I solved Semantle #54 in 47 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.80. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 38.32 (934/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― Roz, Thursday, 24 March 2022 00:28 (two years ago) link
Woah, solved in 8 guesses, my best ever. High cold in my first guess, middling green with my second guess, plain sailing from there. car - plane - military - weapon - missile - FOUND!
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 24 March 2022 00:48 (two years ago) link
My best so far as well.
I solved Semantle #54 in 15 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.51. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 59.60 (997/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― MarkoP, Thursday, 24 March 2022 02:02 (two years ago) link
holy shit, i havent done one in a while because im always tired and this is hard when youre tired. but uhh i got it in 7? feels like pure luck but ill take it
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 24 March 2022 02:07 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #54 in 21 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.62. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 34.09 (871/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― nxd, Thursday, 24 March 2022 08:08 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #54 in 33 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.52. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 32.80 (840/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 24 March 2022 08:27 (two years ago) link
15 for me, space is one of my usual early words and luckily i didn't avoid it this time.
― ledge, Thursday, 24 March 2022 08:35 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #54 in 60 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.45. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 35.75 (897/1000). while Russia is destroying Ukraine, having two war-related words on successive days feels...uh. Random process, I know.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 24 March 2022 08:36 (two years ago) link
Took me 36 after 3 greens - sky, space, airplane.
Coincidentally I'd just dressed my kid in rocket trousers and a rocket tshirt
― kinder, Thursday, 24 March 2022 09:34 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #54 in 31 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.87. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #20. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 16.74. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Average guesses down to 102.23. Trying to get under 100.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Thursday, 24 March 2022 11:33 (two years ago) link
33! Not bad at all.
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 March 2022 15:33 (two years ago) link
i havent done one in a while because im always tired and this is hard when youre tired
I always do this when I'm tired. My sleep cycle is incredibly poor so I usually get up in the afternoon and go straight to semantle. I have thought about doing it late at night when it changes to the next one and my brain is more awake, but I find the routine comforting this way around.
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 March 2022 15:36 (two years ago) link
i only play every few days, but my last three times i've got it sub 30 — feeling like a god
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 24 March 2022 16:13 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #54 in 44 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.60. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #17 with “vehicle” (416/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 28.45 (690/1000) with “takeoff”, after having “liftoff” score 969.This one was a breeze basically although the target words seem to become increasingly war-affected.
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Thursday, 24 March 2022 17:05 (two years ago) link
Better than yesterday, but still nowhere near as good as you lot.
I solved Semantle #54 in 147 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.89. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #71. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 16.93. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 24 March 2022 17:42 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #55 in 32 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.47. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #17. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 31.08 (809/1000).
Using a thesaurus every day is helping me get my average down
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 25 March 2022 07:58 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #55 in 101 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 14.76. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of -0.38. my first green - urge - was rather unhelpful! Took me ages to get on the right track.
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 25 March 2022 09:53 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #55 in 176 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.43. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #14. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 21.66. https://semantle.novalis.org/
I had so many greens it was ridiculous. My worst in some time.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Friday, 25 March 2022 12:55 (two years ago) link
Got this in 135 and hated it. First green at guess 27 was engage 993, one hundred guesses later I wasn't any closer, despite heavy thesaurus usage to aid my covid addled brain.
― ledge, Friday, 25 March 2022 13:13 (two years ago) link
Ooooh, I just went from (cold) to 921! The game is afoot.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 25 March 2022 14:36 (two years ago) link
i have had 239 guesses so far and i have been doing word association for things related to war crimes tribunals and getting nowhere
― sarahell, Friday, 25 March 2022 14:49 (two years ago) link
lol my highest score so far is DISAGREE and synonyms for diverging but it's not leading anywhere new either.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 25 March 2022 14:58 (two years ago) link
Always worth trying antonyms if synonyms aren't getting you anywhere imo.
---I solved Semantle #55 in 115 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.57. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #27. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 39.93 (964/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― emil.y, Friday, 25 March 2022 15:47 (two years ago) link
#55 is a tough one, I'm on 210 guesses with 49 in the green, but still can't seem to land on it.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 25 March 2022 15:51 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #55 in 82 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 21.22. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 55.76 (995/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― nxd, Friday, 25 March 2022 16:48 (two years ago) link
370 guesses -- dozens in green -- closest are prosecute and engage -- idk idk
― sarahell, Friday, 25 March 2022 17:14 (two years ago) link
Kicking myself now, finally threw in the towel around guess 450. The word was one I was 100% absolutely certain I had already guessed.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 25 March 2022 17:18 (two years ago) link
i gave up on this one too, lots of guesses in the 900s but eventually had to concede defeat and stop haemorrhaging productive hours!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Friday, 25 March 2022 22:04 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #55 in 145 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.20. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #37. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 31.08 (809/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 25 March 2022 22:59 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #55 in 28 guesses (about 2 and a half minutes after it dropped). got lucky because my 17th guess was give (17/1000) (one of my fallback words when I'm flailing about early in the game), and after that it was a short path from donate to help to assist to cooperate
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Friday, 25 March 2022 23:08 (two years ago) link
(wait nvm, I guess the next one drops in 45 minutes, so I'm late to the game)
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Friday, 25 March 2022 23:14 (two years ago) link
Ok loool I got this after 67 goes, getting 4 greens, leaving it all day then watching some of The Wire series 5 and going straight back in with the target word. my greens were 'respect', 'believe', 'share', 'affirm' and I'd just watched some episodes where the 'co-op' featured heavily, so that was my first guess this evening
― kinder, Friday, 25 March 2022 23:14 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #55 in 210 guesses. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11 with “confront” (963), quickly followed by “engage” (993) at #24My penultimate guess had a similarity of 39.93 (964/1000).Ha, ha, ha, just lovely. That’s how little it can mean to get so high up early on. Instead of things narrowing down they kept widening. In the end I had 20 out of the highest 50 greens and 82 greens in total. Still fun though!
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Saturday, 26 March 2022 00:02 (two years ago) link
lol the share c&p called this game 53 but really it was 56
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 26 March 2022 00:46 (two years ago) link
second fluke in a row: I solved #56 in 20 guesses. I hit upon frown (784/1000) on my 7th guess, and I toyed with various gesture and expression related words (and some abstract stuff like "chastise" and "hate") until I got it right. my only other words in the top 1000 were grimace (649/1000, 8th guess) and "wink" (977/1000, 17th guess). usually when I play this game I'm constantly reminding myself not to be so literal and so narrowly focused, but in this case I was better off pursuing the dumbest and most obvious leads
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Saturday, 26 March 2022 00:49 (two years ago) link
big fluke here too
I solved Semantle #56 in 39 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.22. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #34. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 1.91. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― nxd, Saturday, 26 March 2022 01:39 (two years ago) link
I’ve got 990, 995 and 998 but I’m struggling to make the breakthrough.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 26 March 2022 08:17 (two years ago) link
^^i gave up despite reaching same (plus 992 and 996). I think I might have gotten it eventually but would’ve taken ages. Not very helpful hint: following different meanings of 996 would’ve gotten me there faster than 995 or 998
― Roz, Saturday, 26 March 2022 08:35 (two years ago) link
Gave up too, doubt if I was going to get it very quickly.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 26 March 2022 09:16 (two years ago) link
Oh my god, I'm finding this one SO HARD. I'm on 250 guesses and my highest is 810, but I'm just not narrowing down the path. Most of my guesses that I think are going to be green end up being wildly off-base.
― emil.y, Saturday, 26 March 2022 12:05 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #56 in 65 guesses. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #35 with “indication” (750), followed by “hint” (985) at #38, so I guess I could haven gotten their quicker - ain’t it always the case?
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Saturday, 26 March 2022 12:33 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #56 in 77 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.52. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 18.30. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Saturday, 26 March 2022 12:34 (two years ago) link
Bizzare list of closest words.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Saturday, 26 March 2022 12:35 (two years ago) link
Bizarre
Found it in 244, I had the right idea - some kind of bodily movement around 200, after being stuck at hug for over 100 guesses.
― ledge, Saturday, 26 March 2022 13:07 (two years ago) link
Oh fucking hell, got it in 464. I was stuck in violent actions for ages, then rejoinder/riposte/rebuke/reply land, before coming round to gestures in general, and even then it took me a lot of time and a lot of making stupid faces trying to think of other options.
― emil.y, Saturday, 26 March 2022 13:26 (two years ago) link
Haha same.
― ledge, Saturday, 26 March 2022 13:29 (two years ago) link
pimantle #22 is kind of an asshole (or maybe I am). after I hit upon a handful of top 1000 words like "gangsta" and "homeboy" and "homie", I felt like I had no choice but to advance the word "n***a", only for the computer to sternly inform me that it wasn't in the dataset. the site even has a disclaimer saying that "the dataset includes offensive words (including slurs!)", but I guess that particular word is on a blacklist ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . I got the secret word ("rap") in 39 guesses.
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Saturday, 26 March 2022 17:08 (two years ago) link
Are pimantles just old semantles with the added visual element, or are they their own puzzles?
― emil.y, Saturday, 26 March 2022 17:21 (two years ago) link
I solved Pimantle #22 with 45 guesses and no hints!
Which is miles better than my recent attempts with Semantle. Presumably the position of the word on the grid should help, but haven’t worked out how.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 26 March 2022 17:41 (two years ago) link
pimantle is based on semantle, but the secret words are chosen independently, so it isn't just a rehash of old semantles. the creator says "it's the same dataset as semantle but with a bunch of words removed to make it fit in the browser", but also says "its wordlist is hand curated, so there are slightly more obscure words like you want mixed in with common ones. It's appreciably harder"...so I'm not totally clear on how much overlap there is between the two datasets. I don't find it appreciably more difficult than semantle, and I find the heatmap more interesting than useful, though it can sometimes help to see if a particular chain of word association is likely to be a dead end even when it initially seems like you're homing in on the secret word
https://www.reddit.com/r/Semantle/comments/t00e1u/i_made_my_own_version_of_semantle_that_plots_your/
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Saturday, 26 March 2022 17:43 (two years ago) link
i got #56 in 318 guesses (thanks to things in hidden text from other ilxors). ... i took a different wrong turn with hello, greeting, award, winner, bye, handshake, and honor
― sarahell, Saturday, 26 March 2022 21:32 (two years ago) link
Finally got it after TONS of greens. Thanks to Roz's tip!
― kinder, Saturday, 26 March 2022 22:39 (two years ago) link
On to #57, and I have 990, 993, 994, 996, 997 and 998, plus a zillion other greens. Fuck this game!
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 27 March 2022 00:57 (two years ago) link
OK, finally got it in 61 guesses, having first hit the high greens at guess 9
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 27 March 2022 01:01 (two years ago) link
998 at guess 19 but no helpful context and I feel the pressure to go for a low score instead of my usual shotgun approach. Curses!
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 27 March 2022 01:30 (two years ago) link
I do appreciate a reason to try vomitous and stank, though.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 27 March 2022 01:36 (two years ago) link
brutal, I was going too far instead of pulling back
I solved Semantle #57 in 148 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.24. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 32.05 (356/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 27 March 2022 01:44 (two years ago) link
got this one in 29, thanks to guessing antonyms.
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 27 March 2022 02:20 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #57 in 123 guesses. my first green words were "fistfight" (28th guess, 185/1000) and "fisticuffs" (30th guess, 486/1000), so I wasted a bunch of guesses on scrapes and brawls and beatdowns, then went through a slightly warmer streak of adjectives that denote cruelty and rudeness, and finally racked up a bunch of top 100 words along the terrible/horrible/awful axis. this was a tough one because there are so many synonyms for the higher-ranking words, but I can't bring myself to consult a thesaurus. I keep forgetting that the secret word is always one of the 5,000 most popular words in the English language, so it will never be something like "noisome" or "execrable" even though those words may help you arrive at the answer
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Sunday, 27 March 2022 02:23 (two years ago) link
am once again stuck in synonym hell - have got 990 993 994 997 998 and the now familiar feeling that I’m still one concept jump away
― Roz, Sunday, 27 March 2022 03:38 (two years ago) link
Ok got it in 169 but ugh
― Roz, Sunday, 27 March 2022 03:47 (two years ago) link
151 for me - which sounds terrible but I have given up on the last two!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Sunday, 27 March 2022 03:52 (two years ago) link
#57 -329 guesses! so many synonyms and common words that go along with them, i was very close to resorting to guessing words by methodically going through remembered lyrics to songs by the Smiths
― sarahell, Sunday, 27 March 2022 05:59 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #57 in 71 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.84. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #18. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 23.79. I think for the first time I hit on both the 1,000th and 10th nearest word, the former being my first green.
― Grandpont Genie, Sunday, 27 March 2022 08:29 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #57 in 63 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 24.77. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #47. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 53.87 (987/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Better than past few days. Going to take a lot of these to get my average below 100.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 27 March 2022 09:08 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #57 in 45 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.65. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 32.67 (436/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/I was in green hell for a while, taking a break helped. Thought that hammering synonyms might finally pay off, there were enough different but related meanings and not enough space in between all the greens I had to branch out in a whole new direction.
― ledge, Sunday, 27 March 2022 11:36 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #57 in 27 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 53.87 (987/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 30.14. https://semantle.novalis.org/
I have two words I use at the start of every game and one of them popped on my first guess at 987. Still deceptive, though.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Sunday, 27 March 2022 11:54 (two years ago) link
112 for me. I had a path that went sport -> fighting -> skirmish -> squabble -> childish -> idiotic -> general insult words -> target word (of course with plenty of additional guessing between those main threads) (and that hidden stuff is VERY spoilery this time, beware).
― emil.y, Sunday, 27 March 2022 13:26 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #57 in 150 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 16.21. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #17. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 16.94. https://semantle.novalis.org/
I got stuck in rut trying to find synonyms for "bad"
― cajunsunday, Sunday, 27 March 2022 16:36 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #57 in 162 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 17.50. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #57. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 59.25 (996/1000).
Not bad, considering how terrible at I've been at this recently.
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Sunday, 27 March 2022 16:58 (two years ago) link
Wow, that took ages. Tons of greens (all the awful synonyms). 996/1000 was the tipoff for me.
― kinder, Sunday, 27 March 2022 17:48 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #57 in 73 guesses. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #49 with “selfish” (131), which led me to “negative” (457) at guess #61, and then it was straight ahead to the target.Good to finally see an adjective, after we had a verb earlier this week. Enough with the noun monotony!wasn’t getting anywhere with this earlier today, couldn’t get higher than low-20 colds with face-related words, and then started tonight’s session with “selfish”, just because that was the Jazmine Sullivan song I was playing. the rest is history!
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Sunday, 27 March 2022 19:32 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #58 in 31 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.93. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #17. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 35.58 (903/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Thank you for bein merciful today Semantle.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Monday, 28 March 2022 00:07 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #58 in 113 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.75. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #48. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 43.82 (973/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 28 March 2022 00:07 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #58 in 36 guesses. my first word in the top 1000 was "lawyer" (guess #29), followed by "policeman", "police" and "city". I hit upon "news" (weirdly only ranked 912/1000) as my penultimate guess after asking myself where those words commonly appear together
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Monday, 28 March 2022 00:19 (two years ago) link
i got #58 in 68 guesses -- i was surprised! i feel like they are easier when the word is only one part of speech as opposed to most of them where they can be multiple parts of speech
― sarahell, Monday, 28 March 2022 00:28 (two years ago) link
agreed! if the word has multiple senses, it seems like you end up with sort of a vote splitting scenario... ex. if the secret word is "butt" then one would hope that "tu5h" would be one of the ten closest words, but it might only make it to like 966/1000 because it has to compete for a high ranking with words like "abut" and "hit" and "intrude" and "cigarette". no matter which thread you pick up on, you're going to have fewer green words to work with. though it can be interesting to tease out the separate threads after the game is over
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Monday, 28 March 2022 01:07 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #58 in 84 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.42. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #18. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 41.30 (960/1000).
Should have had it a dozen guesses earlier. My initial reaction to the secret word was "No fair! Archaism!"
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Monday, 28 March 2022 02:27 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #58 in 54 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.65. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #15. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 11.12.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 28 March 2022 07:08 (two years ago) link
jfc, 278 guesses. Didn't have anything closer than 606/1000 (police) for nearly 200 guesses, then finally just starting typing nouns at random and my eighth was paper, then went for news and then got it.
― ledge, Monday, 28 March 2022 09:27 (two years ago) link
some of my favourites from the top 1000: gigant, grough, snottily, whorehouse, podunk, kurus, booboisie
― ledge, Monday, 28 March 2022 09:33 (two years ago) link
Haha
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Monday, 28 March 2022 09:48 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #58 in 144 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.76. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 42.32 (966/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Spent way too much time in the 600s and 700s going absolutely nowhere. Then I got writer mostly at random and had the answer within seven guesses.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Monday, 28 March 2022 12:18 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #58 in 60 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 14.75. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #58. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 10.94. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― johnny crunch, Monday, 28 March 2022 12:39 (two years ago) link
Pretty good!
I solved Semantle #58 in 36 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.18. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #27. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 30.94 (832/1000). 1st green was 'lurid', haha!
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 28 March 2022 12:43 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #58 in 98 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.59. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #67. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 36.54 (912/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Not particularly notable, but my guesses were miles and miles away at first, until I got 'morning' and 'zoo' next to each other in the list, which gave me the association 'radio', which was of course a high green and a good track to follow. It amused me, anyway.
― emil.y, Monday, 28 March 2022 16:10 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #58 in 160 guesses. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #80.My penultimate guess had a similarity of 37.65 (922/1000).
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Monday, 28 March 2022 21:08 (two years ago) link
this latest (#59) seems to depend a lot on the sample - lots of terms that only make sense in one context in the top 10/20/100.
― vcrash, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 02:09 (two years ago) link
Got it in 34 - a fluke though First green was 'fly' but it was only 28/1000 - generally an indication of nothing whatsoever. However I went with that and my next guess was correct
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 02:31 (two years ago) link
Got it in 32. My first guess was in the green, which I don't think has happened before.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 02:52 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #59 in 206 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -4.45. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 20.39.
First time getting 1/1000.
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 03:46 (two years ago) link
Toughest one in a while now!
I solved Semantle #59 in 232 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 32.45 (720/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 9.94. many of you have stressed the importance of using antonyms, but I have never felt it applied to my efforts. Until today! I had so many greens with the likes of 'drop', 'fall', 'spiraling' etc. My penultimate guess was 'hover'.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 09:10 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #59 in 82 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.62. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #47. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.58. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Glad to be under 100 guesses again - past few days have been tough for me
― Roz, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 09:26 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #59 in 97 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.85. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #17. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 29.00 (511/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Wow that came out of the blue, was fully expecting to carry on well into the 100s. Was stuck with tumble, fall, drop as my highest guesses - some seriously misleading rankings imo, e.g. fly, glide should be much higher.
― ledge, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 09:31 (two years ago) link
good call about antonyms gg, though that was not my explicit thinking.
― ledge, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 09:37 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #59 in 37 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.14. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #21. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 49.94 (976/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Build is one of my standard early words, which lead to increase and it was just refinement from there.
― reassessing life after bookmarking a Will Smith thread (PBKR), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 11:57 (two years ago) link
19! My god! One of my early guesses is often cat, because I like cats, and I went from there to claws -> wings -> fly -> target word, easy as pie.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 13:50 (two years ago) link
once again i have opened the game for the first time in a while and once again i have accidentally stumbled upon the correct answer on guess 5. guesses 3 and 4 were 'choose' (not close) and 'fly' (weirdly barely in the top 1000), but i figured i'd try a similar verb to see how it went (my 6th guess was going to be insect).
where's the thing that you are all copy-pasting when you complete it?
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 15:20 (two years ago) link
oh nvm i found it.I solved Semantle #59 in 5 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.06. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.24 (28/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 15:22 (two years ago) link
lots of red herrings today, fun106 in the end
― nxd, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 19:03 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #60 in 87 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 18.34. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.44. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Found this difficult but satisfying. Somewhat annoyingly I had “principal” as one of my much earlier guesses!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 00:41 (two years ago) link
Did in 78 guesses. A bit of a slog though, as I hit a green in the 700s on my second guess.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 00:46 (two years ago) link
I got #60 in 65 guesses -- hit the 900s twice in the first 20 guesses; because of the annoying thing with plurals and verb tenses being not necessarily close to the word, I definitely "wasted" some guesses
― sarahell, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 03:20 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #60 in 177 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.66. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #57. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 48.34 (981/1000).
I needed some help. More like "synonymle" am I right.
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 05:56 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #60 in 17 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.80. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 14.33. https://semantle.novalis.org/
woo! sheer luck though - ”philosophy” is one of my favourite starter words, a couple of quick jumps from there to the solution
― Roz, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 06:52 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #60 in 21 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.52. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6.
― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 07:17 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #60 in 148 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.20. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #24. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 32.53 (423/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 08:09 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #60 in 92 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.89. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #56. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 14.46. Hit on the answer after plenty of greens relating to religion and the law.
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 08:47 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #60 in 59 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.76. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #26. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 40.80 (923/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Probably should have had it about 10 guesses earlier. I had nearly the entire top 10 but didn't think of the most obvious one.
― reassessing life after bookmarking a Will Smith thread (PBKR), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 11:39 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #60 in 48 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 18.34. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #18. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 7.89. https://semantle.novalis.org/
logic at guess 18 then philosophy (sometimes but not always one of my usual starters too) then messing about in that area before trying the non academic meaning.
― ledge, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 12:10 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #60 in 192 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.33. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #148. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 59.40 (997/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Took so long to get in the top 1000 I nearly gave up.
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 13:51 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #61 in 104 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.24. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #22 with ‘government’My penultimate guess had a similarity of 50.54 (949/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Coulda got there quicker I guess but still (mostly) enjoyed the journey.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Thursday, 31 March 2022 01:17 (two years ago) link
Got it in 71 guesses. My first green was the same as yours and it should have been a quick ride from there, instead I floundered for another 50 guesses
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 31 March 2022 01:22 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #61 in 115 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.57. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #52. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 86.44 (999/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 31 March 2022 02:08 (two years ago) link
I got #61 in 111 guesses -- my coldest guess was hot lol
― sarahell, Thursday, 31 March 2022 05:27 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #61 in 94 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.08. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 13.27. My first green was 'dignity' and it took quite another 19 guesses before I hit on my next: 'society'. A lot of time was then wasted with guesses about cities, neighbourhoods etc followed.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 31 March 2022 06:58 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #61 in 64 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.37. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #26. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 51.70 (960/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/First green was moral, took me a while to get to politics then short work from there.
― ledge, Thursday, 31 March 2022 08:39 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #61 in 167 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.25. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #58. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 86.44 (999/1000).
another nightmare
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 31 March 2022 09:07 (two years ago) link
I don't think I'm cut out for this game. It took me 58 guesses just to get a low green and it took me another 70 guesses to get my second green. I got election on guess #129 but I didn't think of the target word for another 38 guesses after that!
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 31 March 2022 09:13 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #61 in 27 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.89. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #15. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 28.82. https://semantle.novalis.org/
I think this my best yet. Got to 999 in 16 but faffed around instead of going for the obvious one.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 31 March 2022 12:04 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #61 in 99 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.27. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #23. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 37.34 (395/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
I had another form of the word at 26 - oh well.
― reassessing life after bookmarking a Will Smith thread (PBKR), Thursday, 31 March 2022 12:48 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #61 in 62 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.98. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #27. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 86.44 (999/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 31 March 2022 13:11 (two years ago) link
89 today, about 177 yesterday. Today's was more about slightly shifting the concepts each time until I honed it down, yesterday was a massive "every synonym except the right one" frenzy.
― emil.y, Thursday, 31 March 2022 14:21 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #61 in 11 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 41.95 (739/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 86.44 (999/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
/brag
― Nhex, Thursday, 31 March 2022 17:13 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #61 in 16 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.90. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 32.16. https://semantle.novalis.org/
having 'politics' as a starter word pays off sometimes
― ✖, Thursday, 31 March 2022 23:56 (two years ago) link
Eventually gave up on #62, despite getting a million greens. I'm not sure I would have ever got it though now I know what it is
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 1 April 2022 03:33 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #62 in 69 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.42. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 16.62. https://semantle.novalis.org/
should've been faster considering I had 995 at guess #18. needed 993 to make the right leap to the target word.
― Roz, Friday, 1 April 2022 04:14 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #62 in 55 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.74. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #14. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 27.04 (716/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
I was stuck with a highest guess of ‘conclude’ (479) for ages, then consulted a co-worker who has previously been a Semantle sceptic - she suggested ‘introduce’ (493) and it was a hop, skip and a jump from there! i think that this will leave her more favourably disposed towards co-Semantle efforts in future
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Friday, 1 April 2022 04:37 (two years ago) link
Gave up on #62, after just 84 guesses. I don't normally give up that soon. Like Zelda Zonk, I doubt I would have ever have got it given the direction my guesses were going.
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 1 April 2022 09:57 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #62 in 105 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.14. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #43. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 23.29 (89/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 1 April 2022 10:00 (two years ago) link
I had introduce on guess #54 but it still took me another 50 guesses to get from there to the target word!
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 1 April 2022 10:03 (two years ago) link
might have to give up, stuck on 984/1000 after 150 guesses and thesaurus ain't helping.
― ledge, Friday, 1 April 2022 10:49 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #62 in 32 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.34. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #28. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 21.30. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Got this one almost out of nowhere after two greens.
― reassessing life after bookmarking a Will Smith thread (PBKR), Friday, 1 April 2022 11:50 (two years ago) link
found it in 161 with direct thesaurus help so a false victory. don't think i would have got it without completely changing paradigms.
― ledge, Friday, 1 April 2022 12:28 (two years ago) link
though i don't know what i would have changed to as gift and now are both cold.
― ledge, Friday, 1 April 2022 12:29 (two years ago) link
lol, 15. Almost entirely a fluke, most of those guesses were massively cold, then a low green gave it to me in two more guesses.
― emil.y, Friday, 1 April 2022 13:41 (two years ago) link
thanks to ledge's hints i got it in 203 guesses ... after having high greens with guesses #2 and #7 confront and meetlol ...
― sarahell, Friday, 1 April 2022 16:22 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #62 in 139 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.17. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #17. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 12.81.
Time was running out, but I'm glad I stuck with it (after having 994/1000 at guess 39).
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Saturday, 2 April 2022 00:02 (two years ago) link
#63 -- i am stuck
― sarahell, Saturday, 2 April 2022 02:53 (two years ago) link
Me too - despite a host of greens, the highest of which is in the mid-980s. But that was many guesses ago, so I am no doubt barking up the wrong tree.
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 2 April 2022 03:13 (two years ago) link
OK, finally got it in 81 guesses. Originally got stuck on synonyms of 'company' and had many high greens for enterprise, firm, business etc. to bolster me in my delusion.
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 2 April 2022 03:26 (two years ago) link
i am now at guess 380 with three words in the mid-980s that all seem related, and many others slightly lower that are also related ...
― sarahell, Saturday, 2 April 2022 03:33 (two years ago) link
Guessing you're barking up the same wrong tree as I was!
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 2 April 2022 03:36 (two years ago) link
i am barking down a computer terminology rabbit hole
― sarahell, Saturday, 2 April 2022 03:42 (two years ago) link
Not the same tree I was barking up, but can confirm your tree is not the right tree!
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 2 April 2022 04:20 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #63 in 59 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.79. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 29.27 (839/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
was coming in on a vegetables/farming/market angle so got stuck guessing hearty rustic words for a while, but nudged myself out of that cul de sac quickly enough thankfully
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Saturday, 2 April 2022 04:39 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #63 in 33 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.77. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.38 (228/1000).
this one made me feel better about myself after a string of terrible performances
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 2 April 2022 09:01 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #63 in 131 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.26. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #46. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 36.93 (962/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Had “manufacturer” early so got stuck guessing a whole lot of business/company terms before finally guessing “seller”. Pretty quick from there
― Roz, Saturday, 2 April 2022 09:12 (two years ago) link
Found it in 157. Had seller at 126 so dragged that out a bit.
― ledge, Saturday, 2 April 2022 12:04 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #63 in 99 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.86. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.13 (169/1000). most of my early greens were to do with farming and owning land.
― Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 2 April 2022 12:17 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #63 in 227 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.91. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 18.22.
I had "vender" (998/1000) at guess 163 LOL
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Saturday, 2 April 2022 14:25 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #63 in 60 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.04. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 2.07. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― reassessing life after bookmarking a Will Smith thread (PBKR), Saturday, 2 April 2022 15:07 (two years ago) link
oof, my 68th and 79th guesses were "customer" (992/1000) and "seller" (993/1000), but I set the game aside after 100 guesses because I wasn't getting any closer to the answer. It occurred to me some time later that "vendor" would be the perfect guess, but by the time I got back to my computer I was convinced that I'd already tried that word. I ended up getting it in 113 guesses
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Saturday, 2 April 2022 23:34 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #64 in 182 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.82. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 17.89. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Tough one, so many greens under 500, then I thought I knew what it was but struggled to find variations on junk mail.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 3 April 2022 01:14 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #64 in 47 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.17. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 9.35.
Guess 5 was the only green I got -- "level" at 2/1000. As I flailed around for a better foothold, I hit it. I'll take a fluke!
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Sunday, 3 April 2022 01:15 (two years ago) link
hey #64 -- only 209 guesses! i randomly got a high green at guess #11 with verbal then it only took another 198 guesses lol
― sarahell, Sunday, 3 April 2022 05:04 (two years ago) link
#64 was maybe the fourth one I tried, first one I finished. got it in 55 guesses.
― john shopkins (naus), Sunday, 3 April 2022 06:04 (two years ago) link
Made it to 984/1000 but it took forever to get there and I then stalled - so did the kind thing and put myself out of Semantle’s misery. Looking at the word I think I probably could have got there! But I know it is equally likely that I could have just prolonged the agony all day…
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Sunday, 3 April 2022 07:13 (two years ago) link
I gave up too (after >300 guesses) and was surprised to see that the word was one I thought I’d already tried :/
But I wasn’t really getting anywhere anyway - I couldn’t see which way the greens were leading me, just seemed like a big jumble of random words.
― Roz, Sunday, 3 April 2022 07:52 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #64 in 9 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 23.14 (515/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 18.04.
best ever score. one of my starter words is personal which took me to a middling green, it was a short hop from there.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 3 April 2022 10:50 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #64 in 78 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.11. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 14.95. https://semantle.novalis.org/
I only had 2 guesses in the 900s. If I hadn’t have gotten this when I did, it might have taken me all day.
― reassessing life after bookmarking a Will Smith thread (PBKR), Sunday, 3 April 2022 12:57 (two years ago) link
105 today, over that yesterday. Yesterday was once more a nightmare of synonyms where for some reason that particular one was nowhere near my brain. Today was easier, though I'd tried a variation of the word that was not green and it took me a bit to clock that the shorter version was more accurate to what else I had.
― emil.y, Sunday, 3 April 2022 15:37 (two years ago) link
#64 - over 200 guesses on 2 devices. Got #997 on turn 11 then couldn't get any higher.
― adam t. (abanana), Sunday, 3 April 2022 15:42 (two years ago) link
pimantle #40 is a silly one. recommended.
― adam t. (abanana), Sunday, 3 April 2022 15:46 (two years ago) link
(re: semantle) tapped out at 200 guesses, would never have got it.
― ledge, Sunday, 3 April 2022 19:52 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #65 in 79 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.38. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 52.43 (993/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
got seven of the ten closest before I was right
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 4 April 2022 00:10 (two years ago) link
Got it in 89. 'Communication' (935/1000) was my way in, although it took me another 35 guesses before I got it.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 4 April 2022 00:42 (two years ago) link
am I misremembering or didn’t we have a different version of today’s word as a solution before?
― Roz, Monday, 4 April 2022 04:36 (two years ago) link
Hmmm #55 was COOPERATE
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Monday, 4 April 2022 04:46 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #65 in 154 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.42. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 52.43 (993/1000). Bah.
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Monday, 4 April 2022 04:47 (two years ago) link
Can someone fix/hide my post right after Roz's? Sorry about that.
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Monday, 4 April 2022 04:49 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #65 in 68 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.94. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 37.89 (920/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 4 April 2022 07:49 (two years ago) link
Found it in 118, took me 53 guesses to get green and I had to use the thesaurus to get over the line - i had 995/1000 and knew it would be something close to that but couldn't dredge it out of my early morning brain, and lost patience.
― ledge, Monday, 4 April 2022 08:33 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #65 in 67 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.47. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 12.63. https://semantle.novalis.org/
This took a little time but was pretty straightforward.
― reassessing life after bookmarking a Will Smith thread (PBKR), Monday, 4 April 2022 12:29 (two years ago) link
do you make considered guesses or just type whatever pops into your heads? I realize I just guess a lot of things without the goal of getting the answer in the shortest number of tries. Maybe that's why I'm at guess #381 and close but ... just not getting it
― sarahell, Monday, 4 April 2022 16:28 (two years ago) link
I have about 5-15 words I use right out of the gate to see if anything pops. Also I’ve noticed generic words like “give” or “carry” often work best to get pointed in the right direction.
― reassessing life after bookmarking a Will Smith thread (PBKR), Monday, 4 April 2022 17:02 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #65 in 86 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.58. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 1.82. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― john shopkins (naus), Monday, 4 April 2022 21:55 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #66 in 56 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.00. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #9. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 78.68 (999/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
only missing 998 to round out the top 10
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 01:08 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #66 in 66 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.87. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 56.08 (995/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Sitting on a top of 960 ('school') forever, had completely run out of educational things and was about to pull the plug - then somehow stumbled on 'basketball' and it was easy from there. Don't really associate educational institutions with sport so heavily, but I guess this is more a US thing.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 01:46 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #66 in 97 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.92. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #37. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 9.80.
Should have had it sooner, but glad I'm under 100.
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 04:38 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #66 in 41 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.70. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 78.68 (999/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
my streak of 40 died because i forgot to do yesterday's :(
― ✖, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 04:42 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #66 in 51 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.77. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #14. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 21.24. https://semantle.novalis.org/I solved Semantle #66 in 51 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.77. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #14. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 21.24. https://semantle.novalis.org/
I also got stuck on 'school' for 20 odd guesses but then tried 'sport'.
― ledge, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 07:39 (two years ago) link
there's gold in the top 1000. some faves: guttiest, heighth, thinclads, wrinklier, skelly, shools, coch, frosh, squatty, eleemosynary, pompon, umping, geat
― ledge, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 08:18 (two years ago) link
Theyre talking about Semantle on the SpellingBee subreddit now!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 08:42 (two years ago) link
100 guesses. had actually gotten ‘athlete’ at guess 46 - took another 50 guesses before I thought to try a different word :/
― Roz, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 09:47 (two years ago) link
Frustrating one, this!
I solved Semantle #66 in 120 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.79. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #25. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 78.68 (999/1000).
my 1st green was 'school' on my 25th guess and it took a lot of guesses connected with teaching, training, learning and the providers and recipients of same before I thought "they do sports at school" and guessed 'sports' for guess 100.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 10:14 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #66 in 32 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.89. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #19. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 26.06 (528/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
My usual tactic of picking words from the spines of my books struck gold for a change today.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 10:17 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #66 in 231 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 18.10. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 78.68 (999/1000).
back to my usual level of performance after a couple of freakishly low scores
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 10:38 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #66 in 69 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.94. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 1.17. https://semantle.novalis.org/
I was pretty much nowhere until guess 55, sprint, then zeroed in from there.
― reassessing life after bookmarking a Will Smith thread (PBKR), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 12:02 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #66 in 18 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.56. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 78.68 (999/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 13:43 (two years ago) link
#66 in 21 guesses. There are some categories that I always try: medical/body, science, sports, music, law, government and that paid off today.
― adam t. (abanana), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 14:05 (two years ago) link
26. A nice one today. I too always have sport as one of my early guesses so it was just a bit of tootling round the concept to get there.
I've been feeling as though I should maybe change when I play as I have resorted to thesaurus cheating a couple of times lately, when my brain just hasn't been awake enough to dredge up certain words. But maybe I should just resist the temptation instead. Grr.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 15:30 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #66 in 34 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 18.03. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #18. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 78.68 (999/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― nxd, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 18:00 (two years ago) link
well that sucked
I solved Semantle #67 in 225 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.54. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #14. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 20.45. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 02:01 (two years ago) link
Cracked it in 79. My route in: continual - constant - eternal and many similar words - brief diversion into god, divine etc. - infinite - FOUND!
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 03:19 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #67 in 240 guesses. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #40 -- infinite!
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 05:30 (two years ago) link
102, thought it was gonna be worse tbh considering my first green only came in at guess #79 with implicit.
― Roz, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 06:18 (two years ago) link
84 out of nowhere - first green at guess 32 with god, then nothing till 81: certain, 82: sure (cold), 83: certainty
― ledge, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 12:13 (two years ago) link
Your daily favourites from the top 1000: bollox, wost, addlepated, skerrick, yawping, baldest, shittiest
― ledge, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 13:03 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #67 in 364 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.67. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #87. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 15.79. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Kept plodding on but took an age to get my second in top 1000.
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 13:06 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #67 in 48 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.75. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 45.03 (994/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― nxd, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 15:21 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #67 in 173 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 31.98 (782/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 16.43. https://semantle.novalis.org/
I haven't gotten this flummoxed in a long time. My first guess was 782 and my 7th guess was 946. I thought it was going to be easy!
― reassessing life after bookmarking a Will Smith thread (PBKR), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 18:34 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #67 in 284 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.29. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #68. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 30.45 (662/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Now, 284 might not be a great score, but I did spend over one hundred guesses of it having a grand old time typing in swear words, many of which were in actual fact in the green. A good game in my book.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 20:12 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #68 in 120 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 15.44. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 67.45 (999/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Very tired today and just smashed random words into the box until I got close. Judging by this result, the strategy is no better or worse than when I try to be clever.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Thursday, 7 April 2022 01:36 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #68 in 73 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 25.30 (291/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 36.14 (920/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
it is an absolute curse to get in the green early
― ✖, Thursday, 7 April 2022 02:25 (two years ago) link
Gave up, despite many greens. But looking at the answer, I don't think I would have got it, I was too stuck on an angle that was giving me all those greens, but was ultimately all wrong. I had 'disappointment' which was 994/1000, and a whole string of similar words also in the green: dismay, chagrin, letdown, setback etc.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 7 April 2022 02:28 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #68 in 316 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.87. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.43 (306/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Didn't break 900 until 301. gamble, chance and whiff were my first greens and lead absolutely nowhere useful
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 7 April 2022 02:49 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #68 in 61 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.52. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 13.41.
Took a break after 60 guesses, and my first one after it found it :-)
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Thursday, 7 April 2022 04:10 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #68 in 129 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.95. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 43.39 (977/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
^^this
― Roz, Thursday, 7 April 2022 05:56 (two years ago) link
Solved in 199 - up until about 150 I was derailed by a bunch of very abstract greens all leading nowhere - though, why, reason, however.
― ledge, Thursday, 7 April 2022 08:22 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #68 in 154 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.56. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #24. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 59.48 (996/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 7 April 2022 09:07 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #68 in 70 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.40. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #15. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 33.69 (861/1000). the answer was an appropriate one, as I didn't expect to get it when I did and thought I'd have to soldier on for a while with a bunch of upbeat, positive words.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 7 April 2022 09:39 (two years ago) link
Oof, took me 264. I got caught up in multiple green strands that didn't really help me and also found it tough to narrow down the part of speech the word was in, so I had a lot of variations of the same word all in green. I will admit that when I got it I did kick myself for not thinking of it before, though.
― emil.y, Thursday, 7 April 2022 17:32 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #68 in 249 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 19.86. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #59. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 3.06. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Last two days have been my worst showing in weeks. Gotta get out of synonymtown.
― reassessing life after bookmarking a Will Smith thread (PBKR), Thursday, 7 April 2022 19:21 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #69 in 67 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.16. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 15.32. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 8 April 2022 00:41 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #69 in 28 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.83. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 40.53 (980/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
:) Had money as an early guess, put me on the right path quickly
― Roz, Friday, 8 April 2022 01:24 (two years ago) link
Got it in 107 guesses. Got 'bank' halfway through - should have been straightforward from there but it took me another 50 guesses :(
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 8 April 2022 02:48 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #69 in 69 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.71. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #19. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 70.08 (999/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 8 April 2022 05:56 (two years ago) link
I had money as an early guess as well, but it still took me another 40-odd guesses to get there.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 8 April 2022 05:59 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #69 in 50 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.08. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #25. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 16.37. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― Sam Weller, Friday, 8 April 2022 07:21 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #69 in 44 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.63. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 21.48. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 8 April 2022 08:42 (two years ago) link
155, another one where it took me ages to get enough greens. my first was trust at 19, but i didn't think of it in the financial sense till guess 80, and it still took me ages to get there.
― ledge, Friday, 8 April 2022 11:37 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #69 in 57 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.15. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #34. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 15.17. https://semantle.novalis.org/
This was starting to feel like it was going to be a long slog like the last two, when I got it sort of out of nowhere. 980 was my closest guess.
― reassessing life after bookmarking a Will Smith thread (PBKR), Friday, 8 April 2022 12:37 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #69 in 225 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -0.36. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #58. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 70.08 (999/1000).
Typically high Semantle slog :-(
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Friday, 8 April 2022 18:39 (two years ago) link
#69 in 76. Fun one.
― adam t. (abanana), Friday, 8 April 2022 18:44 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #70 in 178 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.17. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #73. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 18.83. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 9 April 2022 01:47 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #70 in 103 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.08. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #40. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 9.71. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 9 April 2022 06:52 (two years ago) link
50 guesses and no greens yet.
― ledge, Saturday, 9 April 2022 07:50 (two years ago) link
Past 100 guesses and no greens yet - that's some kind of achievement I suppose.
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 9 April 2022 08:06 (two years ago) link
Finally into the green with 'you' and 'your', which is not really helpful.
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 9 April 2022 08:16 (two years ago) link
141, but wouldn't have gotten it without my husband's help. highest green was "knob", which indeed was how i felt like for most of this game.
― Roz, Saturday, 9 April 2022 08:44 (two years ago) link
some doozies in the top 1000 today: faff, thingamajig, doohickey, crotch, clit, pathname, stereoscopy, potentiometer.
― Roz, Saturday, 9 April 2022 08:53 (two years ago) link
Gave up after 200 guesses and only two middling greens. The worst I've ever done! I had clothes and dress, but they were both cold, surprisingly.
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 9 April 2022 09:04 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #70 in 145 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.21. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #86. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 16.14. so many guesses without a single green! My 1st green was "headphones", having had words like "ear" and "hood" which were just outside the green zone. Spent some frustrating time guessing music and sound recording terms that were some way outside the green zone.
― Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 9 April 2022 10:19 (two years ago) link
Well I half fluked it in 79. I normally don't let the early non green guesses guide me but after having no luck stabbing in the dark I gave it a go and it sort of worked. Highest non greens were choose, select, and option so I started thinking about web forms and got it in 3!
― ledge, Saturday, 9 April 2022 10:27 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #70 in 45 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.41. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 11.23.
this one was kinda fun
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 9 April 2022 11:45 (two years ago) link
Most of my recent games have been terrible in terms of score, but this was a nice 30 for me. Came in from the functional/mechanical side of things rather than words related to clothing items, which I think made it much more simple for me.
― emil.y, Saturday, 9 April 2022 12:56 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #70 in 287 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.38. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #85. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 36.64 (876/1000).
At 250 guesses I had 7 in the green and nothing over 550/1000. 200+ guesses in three of my last four games. It's getting to me!
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Saturday, 9 April 2022 13:57 (two years ago) link
I'm 38 guesses in and I've never had so many single digit or negative similarity words ever.
― Not the best golfer by any means . . . but a great, great entertainer (PBKR), Saturday, 9 April 2022 13:59 (two years ago) link
Hit my first green (mid-500s) at guess 121 and 19 synonyms later don't have a single other green. This is insane.
― Not the best golfer by any means . . . but a great, great entertainer (PBKR), Saturday, 9 April 2022 16:53 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #70 in 256 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.17. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #121. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 30.30 (536/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Finally got it without being anywhere near it.
― Not the best golfer by any means . . . but a great, great entertainer (PBKR), Saturday, 9 April 2022 17:09 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #71 in 17 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 25.24 (274/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 60.00 (997/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
sheer luck, my first word was ”champagne” lol
― Roz, Sunday, 10 April 2022 00:37 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #71 in 106 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.67. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #26. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 27.21 (518/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 10 April 2022 00:51 (two years ago) link
Phew, after the complete debacle of yesterday, I got this one in 38.
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 10 April 2022 01:35 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #71 in 29 guesses via a game -> poker -> alcohol -> casino -> nightclub -> club -> bar route. kinda glad I sat out #70 judging by all the gripes registered itt
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Sunday, 10 April 2022 01:51 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #71 in 173 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.57. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #92. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 47.99 (985/1000).
"I don't know the word shotglass."
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Sunday, 10 April 2022 02:51 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #71 in 83 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.28. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #63. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 60.00 (997/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Looks like giving up on yesterday’s (on basis of hangover and sleep deprivation) was a smart move.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Sunday, 10 April 2022 04:34 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #71 in 39 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.05. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 32.64 (832/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Best one I’ve had in a while, takes me to a 7 day win streak.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 10 April 2022 07:56 (two years ago) link
One of my better ones!
I solved Semantle #71 in 34 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.45. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #20. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 33.61 (861/1000). a word with multiple meanings, so many ways of getting there. Looking forward to reading the hidden comments today.
― Grandpont Genie, Sunday, 10 April 2022 08:07 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #71 in 54 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 27.10 (503/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 21.10.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 10 April 2022 10:02 (two years ago) link
77, via dinner then restaurant, after which it still took an embarrassing 19 guesses.
― ledge, Sunday, 10 April 2022 12:46 (two years ago) link
57. Completely stabbing in the dark for most of that, then my first green (of two) was cage and got it in hardly any after that. Feel like I missed out on a lot of fun guessing by not getting on the drink route.
― emil.y, Sunday, 10 April 2022 12:57 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #71 in 67 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.22. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #55. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 47.75 (984/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
store was my first green and it was pretty steady progress from there.
― Not the best golfer by any means . . . but a great, great entertainer (PBKR), Sunday, 10 April 2022 19:39 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #72 in 86 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -0.27. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 18.09. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 11 April 2022 01:14 (two years ago) link
Got it in 67. Had lots of greens with words like stymie, frustrate, derail, thwart. Then 'lose' was a high green, so I tried the old antonym switcheroo with 'win' which was even higher, and it was quick from there.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 11 April 2022 01:37 (two years ago) link
When is this game going to give me a break? What can stumble, hope, die, however, disappear, draw, belief, court, strong possibly have in common?
― ledge, Monday, 11 April 2022 08:16 (two years ago) link
Got in in 318 with much thesaurus help after stumbling on my first >900 score, happen, in guess 293. Much respect to anyone who can get this in under 200, let alone 100!
― ledge, Monday, 11 April 2022 08:27 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #72 in 74 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 22.65. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 44.56 (988/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Went down the route of legal, quadrangle and circle as my first green word was court but was a dead end until pursue on guess 55 and it was fairly straightforward from then.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 11 April 2022 09:21 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #72 in 27 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.95. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.67.
Lucky guess at #4.
― Sam Weller, Monday, 11 April 2022 10:19 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #72 in 429 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -2.78. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 34.14 (885/1000).
I never normally use a thesaurus but I was determined not to give up on this since I had so many close greens! So on about guess 420 I broke my rule and consulted one.
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 11 April 2022 11:39 (two years ago) link
I think - I hope - this is a unique game for me. My 1st green was on guess 12 ffs! It was confident.
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 11 April 2022 11:41 (two years ago) link
I salute your dogged persistence - I tend to give up if I haven't got it by 150 or so!
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 11 April 2022 11:56 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #72 in 76 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 15.25. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #29. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 30.82 (706/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
It took a while but this was the easiest one for me as it was more or less continuous progress once I hit green.
― Not the best golfer by any means . . . but a great, great entertainer (PBKR), Monday, 11 April 2022 11:58 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #72 in 74 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.38. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 37.37 (951/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Yeah similar experience of (mostly) steady progress.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Monday, 11 April 2022 12:28 (two years ago) link
It took a while but this was the easiest one for me as it was more or less continuous progress once I hit green
I'd really like to know how you do that. My highest green so far is justice which was 150 guesses ago. I have no idea where to go from there. Utterly stumped.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 11 April 2022 12:36 (two years ago) link
Sorry, meant to say, easiest one for me in the last week or so.
Easy in that synonyms lead in a fairly unbroken chain to the next leap (and there were a couple).
I did come at it from a different path than you are on: rise>arise>continue>uphold>persevere was my basic path with a lot of synonyms in between.
― Not the best golfer by any means . . . but a great, great entertainer (PBKR), Monday, 11 April 2022 12:50 (two years ago) link
Fuckity fucking fuck! Finally! A horrible game.
I solved Semantle #72 in 362 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.29. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #60. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 12.52. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― emil.y, Monday, 11 April 2022 20:34 (two years ago) link
Gave up #72, somewhere over 300 guesses. There were SO MANY cold high-20s...
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Monday, 11 April 2022 20:45 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle in 36 guesses. my first green word was fight (guess #12, 572/1000), and I continued in a combative mode for a while (with green words like "compete", "argue", "oppose, "wrestle") before hitting upon "persist" (990/1000) on my 31st guess. from there it was a fairly painless path from "continue" to "persevere" to "endure" to the secret word
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Monday, 11 April 2022 21:43 (two years ago) link
*Semantle #72, that is
I solved Semantle #72 in 66 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 19.57. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #25. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 44.56 (988/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― ✖, Monday, 11 April 2022 22:57 (two years ago) link
oh fuck me wrong code sorry
― ✖, Monday, 11 April 2022 22:58 (two years ago) link
Got #73 in a nice and easy 33 guesses. My route in: rural - farm - crop - wheat - wine - grape - fruit - FOUND!
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 00:20 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #73 in 110 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 15.25. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #100. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 64.10 (997/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
so many dead ends before green
110 apple 100.00 FOUND!109 fruit 64.10 997/1000 104 lettuce 44.96 827/1000 101 vegetable 44.70 820/1000 106 kale 41.34 642/1000 107 carrot 39.26 454/1000 100 crop 38.93 414/1000 102 corn 38.27 324/1000 103 okra 34.26 (cold)105 grain 33.34 (cold)97 awl 31.81 (cold)99 farmer 31.80 (cold)35 fairy 30.03 (cold)94 wood 28.56 (cold)98 farm 27.51 (cold)80 puppy 25.15 (cold)62 fish 24.83 (cold)81 kitten 22.41 (cold)90 lop 21.98 (cold)92 chef 21.69 (cold)6 rot 21.56 (cold)85 penis 21.15 (cold)
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 01:38 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #73 in 3 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.06. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 64.10 (997/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
OMG
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 01:42 (two years ago) link
Three guesses! Is fruit one of your starter words?
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 02:00 (two years ago) link
It would flatter my game to pretend I have anything as organised as starter words - I just blunder in and try and cast the net as widely as I can, mixing up nouns and adjectives mostly. First guess was “poor”, then “fruit” - cue near total paralysis while I consider best options for guess #3!
After playing this game for a few months now, knocking over Semantle in under a minute is definitely a “fucks with the fabric of time” experience.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 02:15 (two years ago) link
amazing, emsworth.
I got it in 88 - got sidetracked a little bit by farming/grain-related guesses: my early greens were "wheat", "rye", "corn", "cereal". changed tack and went down the bakery route which let me to "dessert" and "fruit" to the target word.
― Roz, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 02:21 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #73 in 55 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.09. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 32.21.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 04:11 (two years ago) link
54 - beat you by one! Managed to work my way up fairly steadily from non-greens: animals, dairy (cheese was my first green), various foods - chocolate was high so tried other sweet things.
― ledge, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 07:42 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #73 in 99 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.57. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 64.10 (997/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Went through pretty much every vegetable I could think of, then thought laterally, entered fruit and got it in two.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 08:01 (two years ago) link
At the risk of disparaging perfectly normal fruits from other parts of the world here's some fun from the top 1000: apote, etrog, boletus, pattypan, charoset, profiterole, scurf, mucilaginous, spag
― ledge, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 08:04 (two years ago) link
mucilaginous? makes sense with okra just outside the top 100
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 08:12 (two years ago) link
Bit of a spoiler in your non-hidden text ledge!
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 08:30 (two years ago) link
argh sorry!
― ledge, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 08:33 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #73 in 45 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.41. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #38. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 64.10 (997/1000).
this was a relief after yesterday's nightmare
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 08:55 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #73 in 67 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.53. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #29. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 56.08 (979/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― Not the best golfer by any means . . . but a great, great entertainer (PBKR), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 12:05 (two years ago) link
had 16 guesses in the 900s lol but finally got this in 116 guesses
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 12:35 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #73 in 1 guess. My first guess had a similarity of IT WAS THE RIGHT WORD. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #1. My penultimate guess had a similarity of NOTHING, BECAUSE IT ONLY TOOK ME ONE GUESS.
Sadly, it's because I thought "oh, I'd better check the semantle mod thread in case someone posted about spoilers, then I'll know to avoid the main semantle thread until I've done it myself". But the spoiler was coming from inside the thread. (Basically, ledge posted fruits and then I tried the most obvious one I could think of, and it was the right one.)
― emil.y, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 13:02 (two years ago) link
Sorry! My attempt to be helpful in the mod thread backfired. What a disaster for Semantle #73. Hopefully it's done your stats some good!
― ledge, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 13:08 (two years ago) link
Ha, it's fine really, just a bit of an amusing accident.
Oh, and seeing as there have now been 50 games since stats started recording, anyone fancy sharing their stats? Despite the statistical outlier today, I am still on 132.74 as my average number of guesses, which I suspect is higher than most of you. However, since recording I have not given up once, nor failed to finish. I am persistent.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 13:11 (two years ago) link
I'm 122 on desktop, around 115 iirc on mobile aka weekend games, I have given up a few times which obviously brings those down a bit.
― ledge, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 13:27 (two years ago) link
I bet I'm the worst out of all of youse. 142.22
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 13:44 (two years ago) link
my avg is 87.58, i do give up sometimes usu after 100+ guesses
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 13:59 (two years ago) link
Give-ups don't affect your average, which is no. of guesses divided by no. of games played (incl. give-ups).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 14:07 (two years ago) link
so if you're a giver upper you'll have a lower average than someone who hammers on beyond 400 guesses.
― ledge, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 14:16 (two years ago) link
ah ok
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 14:22 (two years ago) link
average of 134.42, with three give ups
― Roz, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 14:58 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #73 in 100 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.85. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #54. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 59.36 (991/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Got stuck for a bit in a loop looking for types of cheeses when "camembert" scored as my highest green, even higher than "cheese" itself before branching out
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 15:19 (two years ago) link
42 today
50 games playes, 71.7 average with 2 giveups
― nxd, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 17:57 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #74 in 111 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.61. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #79. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 74.55 (998/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 13 April 2022 00:23 (two years ago) link
That was painful. I had 987/1000 at guess 6, and 998/1000 at guess 30. And yet I didn't strike FOUND until guess 77. Almost gave up there, having basically run out of synonyms.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 02:36 (two years ago) link
This one clearly shows the sports bias in semantle. I mean when I think of today's word, I think more of books, songs, movies etc
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 02:39 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #74 in 96 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.04. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #19. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 42.90 (965/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― Roz, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 03:06 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #74 in 44 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.24. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.73 (248/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
got in early with "dream" (771), "dream come true" led me to "triumph." kind of surprised it ended up being such a nondescript word after landing every variation of "champion" in the 990s. i don't think i would've thought of the word without a thesaurus if i wasn't familiar with pro wrestling and vince mcmahon's obsessive rule about only referring to championship belts as "titles"
― ✖, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 03:09 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #74 in 80 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.10. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #20. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 37.81 (942/1000).
After a give up and a skip, this was nice.
First game: 24Total days played: 50Wins: 40Win streak: 1Give-ups: 7Did not finish: 3Total guesses across all games: 9161Average guesses across all games: 183.22
Two 500+ games and three 300+ games and, well, yeah.
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Wednesday, 13 April 2022 05:10 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #74 in 105 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.52. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #36. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 30.55 (817/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Got to #994 on guess 54 but pussy footed around before getting there. Never heard of 988 and 989 are they American usage?
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 08:02 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #74 in 110 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.97. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #17. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 8.74. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Also spent a long time in the 990s on this one.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Wednesday, 13 April 2022 09:21 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #74 in 94 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.02. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #15. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 7.69.
Hit #999 on guess #51 but took me another 43 guesses to get it. Infuriating
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 13 April 2022 10:21 (two years ago) link
I got 987/1000 on guess three, 120 guesses later i now have all but three of the ten closest, including 999, and i still can't get it :/
― ledge, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 10:31 (two years ago) link
Gave up. Ridiculous.
― ledge, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 10:44 (two years ago) link
Ha, me too!
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 10:58 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #74 in 64 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.74. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #23. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 75.60 (999/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 11:17 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #74 in 41 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.76. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #19. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 60.48 (996/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Wednesday, 13 April 2022 11:30 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #74 in 62 guesses. Was also surprised by literature-related words not really making an appearance, I took a solely sports-based approach up to the word.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 13:59 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #74 in 67 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.06. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #19. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 17.88. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Considering I had 999 at guess 32, that took a frustrating path to get there.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 13 April 2022 14:01 (two years ago) link
The database is news articles iirc. There are way more articles about sports than literature.
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Wednesday, 13 April 2022 14:16 (two years ago) link
Eeep, non-hidden spoilers, PBKR! Am abusing my mod powers to hide them.
Also, yeah, I guess your point is right. Still at least a little surprising, though!
― emil.y, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 14:20 (two years ago) link
Oops, sorry!
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Wednesday, 13 April 2022 14:34 (two years ago) link
49 today, quite a few high 900s before
― nxd, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link
66 guesses for me, had basically the whole top 10 before getting it.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 13 April 2022 20:31 (two years ago) link
Got #75 in 68 guesses. A long time messing around with words for building/construction eventually led me to my first (low) green 'assembly', which led to 'meeting' in the high greens and I got it a couple of guesses later.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 14 April 2022 00:30 (two years ago) link
34 - my first green was ’fete’ so messed around with party, gala, feast, celebration, wedding etc before I decided to broaden it out and stumbled on the solution on the first try. Didn’t get anything above 987.
― Roz, Thursday, 14 April 2022 03:49 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #75 in 109 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.95. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #88. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 34.83 (945/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 14 April 2022 04:44 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #75 in 65 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.14. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #34. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 6.84.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 14 April 2022 07:09 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #75 in 54 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.33. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.98 (647/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Got to 956 on guess #4 then went down a food rabbit hole, moved to meeting on guess #41 and got it fairly easily from there.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 14 April 2022 07:54 (two years ago) link
Good one today!
I solved Semantle #75 in 23 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -4.25. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 12.18.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 14 April 2022 08:43 (two years ago) link
14! Maybe my best yet. Having set as one of my early guesses finally pays off.
― ledge, Thursday, 14 April 2022 08:47 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #75 in 56 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.61. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #46. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 30.03 (866/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Thursday, 14 April 2022 09:35 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #75 in 72 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -0.01. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #43. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 11.75. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Thursday, 14 April 2022 11:52 (two years ago) link
110 for me. Was stuck on synonyms for a good while, should have thought of juggalos sooner.
― emil.y, Thursday, 14 April 2022 14:20 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #75 in 22 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.16. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 34.85 (946/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 14 April 2022 14:53 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #75 in 200 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.00. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #56. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 42.64 (990/1000).
Got stuck on time-of-day things, then meal-times, then hit upon celebration/ceremony and honed in with -- lots of other guesses.
I used to want to get my scores below 100. Now I just want a few greens before guess 50.
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Thursday, 14 April 2022 16:34 (two years ago) link
Gave up today. I was on the right track but graduate, draft, etc. pointed the wrong direction.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 15 April 2022 00:59 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #76 in 92 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 30.07 (841/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 3.95.
Guess #1 was train. Choo-choo related? No. What athletes do? No. Guess #43 was "job" and #70 was "hire" which got me there.
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Friday, 15 April 2022 04:26 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #76 in 36 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.21. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 29.01 (791/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
another good day for me today. :) route was university - college - enrol - enlist, and a few guesses from there to the target word
― Roz, Friday, 15 April 2022 04:59 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #76 in 75 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.04. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 13.51. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Neither good nor bad! Thought I was on another sport words journey - which sort of worked for me, but I can take a step back and see it in a broader context now.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Friday, 15 April 2022 05:22 (two years ago) link
Gave up too, 12 day win streak comes to an end. Got to 990 and had more greens than any other attempt.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 15 April 2022 08:29 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #76 in 96 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.55. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #45. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 7.95. not a green, but the word that set me on the right path turned out to be 'rookie'
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 15 April 2022 11:07 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #76 in 16 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -0.47. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 56.42 (994/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
new pb!
― nxd, Friday, 15 April 2022 13:39 (two years ago) link
75. A very satisfying game to play, making steady progress from low to high greens, finding related concepts, trying antonyms, switching verb/noun forms e.g. graduate (though the answer also works both ways I got there via enroll). A six hour time out helped with the final euraka moment.
― ledge, Friday, 15 April 2022 14:24 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #76 in 126 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.83. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 17.08. https://semantle.novalis.org/
I had cultivate (942) at guess #18, so this one took me a lot longer than it should have.
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Friday, 15 April 2022 15:11 (two years ago) link
similar story here. enlist (991/1000) was my 41st guess, and from there I threw out a bunch of words relating to matriculation and military recruitment and job applications. the secret finally popped into my head (with a feeling of "there's no fucking way this can't be it") on guess #83. my brain is a lot less efficient at this game when I'm tired and irritable
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Friday, 15 April 2022 23:27 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #77 in 25 guesses. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13 (love, 774/1000), and from there I jumped from admire (#14, 878/100) to "appreciate" (#15, 985/100) to "thank" (#16, 997/1000). I would have gotten it more quickly if I hadn't been so convinced it was a verb. my penultimate guess was "thankful" (999/1000), mostly prompted by lack of imagination
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Saturday, 16 April 2022 00:41 (two years ago) link
Got it in 12 guesses, which must be my best ever, making up for a dismal performance yesterday which ended in giving up. 'Happy' (984/1000) at guess 4 put me on the right track.
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 16 April 2022 01:17 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #77 in 86 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.59. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 89.77 (999/1000).
Kind of a high score, but a fun one.
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Saturday, 16 April 2022 02:39 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #77 in 21 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.61. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 16.91. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Saturday, 16 April 2022 03:25 (two years ago) link
12 guesses very strong ZZ! My (early) first green was “appreciate” (985/1000) which was helpful - although needed a few guesses to flesh out context! I was convinced it was a verb also
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Saturday, 16 April 2022 03:29 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #77 in 67 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.84. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 21.28.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 16 April 2022 07:04 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #77 in 158 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.68. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #14. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 63.60 (992/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Slow work today, 46 greens, got there in the end.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 16 April 2022 08:08 (two years ago) link
It had to happen, someone is youtubing their games. This is yesterday's, so not a spoiler obviously:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQMiBj1FPQs
It's frustrating for me to watch someone who is a far better player of this game than I could ever hope to be. Like in this example he makes the leap from "attract" to "hire" which is something that would never have occurred to me in a million years.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 16 April 2022 09:15 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #77 in 171 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 25.96 (283/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 89.77 (999/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Wasting away again in Synonym-ville, looking for another word for generous.
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Saturday, 16 April 2022 13:28 (two years ago) link
Got #985 at guess six. Gave up 100 guesses later, after leaning on the thesaurus and reading all the spoilers here! Some you win & some you lose.
― ledge, Saturday, 16 April 2022 18:00 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #77 in 107 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.85. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #17. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 60.75 (987/1000). another one with lots of greens (21), with the last few all synonyms of 'thank' in its various forms.
― Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 16 April 2022 20:35 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #77 in 217 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.54. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 38.58 (885/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/my worst in a while, got stuck in synonym hell and spent the entire duration certain it was a verb, not an adjective, because the verbs were all hitting better than their corresponding adjectives. i only broke out of it with "thank" to "thankful" which was convenient. oy
― ✖, Saturday, 16 April 2022 22:03 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #78 in 8 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.62. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 40.29 (700/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
new pb :D today’s word is actually a bit difficult (judging from the list of closest words) but I got lucky as one of my starters was just a different form of the target word
― Roz, Sunday, 17 April 2022 02:24 (two years ago) link
Wow 8, congratulations! I managed it in 110, but really should have got it much earlier: I had 'philosophy' at guess 49, but it took me another 60 guesses before it occurred to me to try the adjectival form.
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 17 April 2022 07:22 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #78 in 86 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -2.30. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #45. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 23.79.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 17 April 2022 07:28 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #78 in 169 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.54. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #92. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 46.21 (939/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 17 April 2022 09:03 (two years ago) link
Got it in 104 but gutted that I managed it without my usual guess of philosophy and, when that's green, epistemology, ontology, etc.
― ledge, Sunday, 17 April 2022 11:24 (two years ago) link
Fuuuck, I got two different forms of the word really early, but frittered my time away on epistemology, existentialist, nihilism, poststructuralism, etc when I knew I should be honing in better. Too much my topic, far too many fun options open to me. It only took me 86 in the end, but it should have been in the 30s, honestly.
― emil.y, Sunday, 17 April 2022 12:25 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #78 in 69 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.87. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #30. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 38.66 (557/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Would have had it 14 guesses earlier but I misspelled the word!
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Sunday, 17 April 2022 13:27 (two years ago) link
Got it in 104 but gutted that I managed it without my usual guess of philosophy
"philosophy" is often one of my first guesses too, and the alt text of this xkcd comic is probably partly to blame
someone needs to create a hard mode semantle where the secret word isn't limited to the most common dictionary words and could potentially be something like "chthonic" or "eleemosynary" (or maybe even "thicc" or "whoadie"). regular semantle just isn't as efficient as it could be wrt triggering mental breakdowns and dominating 99% of your headspace for hours on end
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Monday, 18 April 2022 01:01 (two years ago) link
104 for Semantle #79. Prob should've gotten it earlier - my highest word at one point was 'dog' so i was busy trying canine-related words when I should've just guessed different types of animals.
― Roz, Monday, 18 April 2022 02:29 (two years ago) link
Got it 10, probably my best ever. car (a word I often start with) - train - carriage - wagon - FOUND!
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 18 April 2022 02:44 (two years ago) link
Nice!
― Roz, Monday, 18 April 2022 03:35 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #79 in 59 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.95. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #51. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 5.95. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Lots of aimless noodling then first green was #336 and next green was target word. Enjoyable!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Monday, 18 April 2022 04:20 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #79 in 42 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.45. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #33. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 38.71 (624/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 18 April 2022 04:41 (two years ago) link
13, a new pb! Guess #7 was animal.
― ledge, Monday, 18 April 2022 05:11 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #79 in 80 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 19.78. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #31. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 12.96. https://semantle.novalis.org/
just guessed barnyard animals until i landed on the right one, as a toddler might
― ✖, Monday, 18 April 2022 05:29 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #79 in 57 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.73. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #20. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 49.01 (890/1000).
Had animal on guess #20 but still took me another 40-odd guesses to get there.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 18 April 2022 06:09 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #79 in 146 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.28. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #86. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.08. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Manure was my first green so went down a gardening rabbit hole, before switching to farming which got me there in the end.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 18 April 2022 08:43 (two years ago) link
Nice one today, where the sequence of guesses proved useful early on:
I solved Semantle #79 in 33 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.96. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #30. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 29.96 (41/1000).
had the good fortune to guess some words regarding gambling, including lottery and casino, but then had my only 2 greens with 'breed' and then 'race' and so figured out out.
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 18 April 2022 09:09 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #79 in 16 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 15.78. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 49.36 (894/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― johnny crunch, Monday, 18 April 2022 11:05 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #80 in 26 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 14.70. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 26.83. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Weird one - my four greens went soldier, man, teenager, child after getting to soldier from knight
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 02:16 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #80 in 37 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 14.45. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 15.06. https://semantle.novalis.org/
second guess was "lawyer," futzed around with different professions (including "soldier" as well) until getting into the 800s with "nurse," then futzed around with medical terms until i thought of "nursing" and immediately solved it yay
― ✖, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 03:19 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #80 in 43 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.27. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #28. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 74.14 (988/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Took me almost 30 guesses to get to green - finally landed one with bedroom, which led me to house - home - spouse, then fairly easy from then on
― Roz, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 06:40 (two years ago) link
34. My first guess of love was quite high (though not green) so messed around for a bit too long with similar verbs & nouns before trying lover.
― ledge, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 06:51 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #80 in 8 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.00. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 76.33 (993/1000).
omg new pb! Hit a low green with one of my starter words person and went quickly from there.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 07:50 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #80 in 29 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 58.40 (948/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 64.27 (972/1000).
should've got it a lot quicker seeing as my 1st guess was 'baby', grr.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 09:04 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #80 in 26 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.44. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #22. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 73.55 (986/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 11:07 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #80 in 13 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.34. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 66.43 (982/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
New PB.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 12:42 (two years ago) link
19 today, 36 yesterday. Games going by too quickly at the moment.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 12:43 (two years ago) link
Used the same starter word as anagram to get going. Quite independently of course.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 12:44 (two years ago) link
14. woke up, listened to dizzee rascal, first guess was rascal, that got me to toddler, pretty easy from there.
― brisk money (lukas), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 17:30 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #81 in 44 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.71. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #40. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 13.01. https://semantle.novalis.org/
one green
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 00:12 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #81 in 15 guesses (can't remember if that's my best effort). My first guess ("read") had a similarity of 23.85 (754/1000). I'd feel smarter if I'd gone straight from "notebook" (guess #7, 111/1000) to "note", but "read", "book", "paper", and "page" were all (frustratingly) ranked much higher, so I didn't immediate make that leap
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 00:28 (two years ago) link
Got it in 70 - a bit flukey as I only had 2 greens. Messed around for an age with feelings/emotions, then senses and struck green with 'see', followed by 'notice' and quickly got to the answer.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 01:47 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #81 in 16 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.36. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 6.87. https://semantle.novalis.org/
lol very random, no greens and my highest guess was just 11.12 similarity. it was “money” and I was trying words related to that.
― Roz, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 03:18 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #81 in 55 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -0.81. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #45. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 2.80.only 3 greens. My breakthrough word was 'word'
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 06:43 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #81 in 45 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.57. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 13.71.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 08:30 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #81 in 155 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.51. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #22. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 1.88. https://semantle.novalis.org/
I stumbled around with a bunch of greens no higher then 878 then nailed it after some deeper consideration. Weird game.
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 13:52 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #81 in 133 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.96. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 13.89. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Spent too long getting specific, with letter as my top word, I was going deep into both the minutiae of what you need to write letters (envelope, signature etc) and more wildly stabbing at word-based things (syllable, monogram, comma etc). Fairly sure I do worse at games where the paths are close to my specialisms - see also philosophy-related words where I fritter my time away on things like poststructuralism and epistemology. Anyway once I sat back for a bit the target word was a much more obvious next step than what I was doing, eh.
After I finished, I noticed that they've put in a hint button - anyone tried that yet?
― emil.y, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 14:07 (two years ago) link
129 guesses on this one -- I was completely stuck, my wife walked by and looked at my list of green words and was like "what about [correct answer]" so there you have it
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 14:07 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #81 in 150 guesses with 1 hint. My first guess had a similarity of 12.33. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #23. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 23.04 (678/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
i tried the hint. highest word was 956 and it guessed 978 for me.
― ✖, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 23:34 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #82 in 25 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.27. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 16.43. https://semantle.novalis.org/
”money” putting me on the right path for the second day in a row. From there, I got “gift” and the solution came pretty quickly after.
― Roz, Thursday, 21 April 2022 03:10 (two years ago) link
average guesses now down to 120 yay (from 150+ earlier). Trying to get it down to under 100.
― Roz, Thursday, 21 April 2022 03:13 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #82 in 127 guesses with 1 hint. My first guess had a similarity of -1.58. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #66. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 13.20.
Tried the hint on my 115th guess.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 21 April 2022 06:09 (two years ago) link
Completely bogged down after 70 guesses and several greens, tried the hint and got it immediately after. Not sure the hint is a good development though, the occasional complete and utter frustration is an integral part of the game!
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 21 April 2022 06:50 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #82 in 15 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.15. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.64 (710/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
It is always a rush when they’re quick! Got “prize” early and then pretty straightforward from there - although sat on #998 (“donation”) for a while wondering where next - was quite surprised when I got the target word, I’m normally not so good at those little intuitive zigs and zags
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Thursday, 21 April 2022 11:00 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #82 in 110 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.41. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #15. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 32.49 (931/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Thursday, 21 April 2022 12:16 (two years ago) link
got it in 42 today from getting history on 6th guess. I didn't notice there was a hint button, not keen on this development at all even if some days it can be frustrating when you are 200+ and getting nowhere.
― calzino, Thursday, 21 April 2022 12:28 (two years ago) link
Gave up in the high 300s, today's was really frustrating. Probably because I got a decent green hit on work early and got stuck in multiple endless loops spinning out of that.
Fwiw, the hint was not very helpful imo.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 April 2022 15:33 (two years ago) link
spoiled today's for myself by accident so decided to check out the hints a bit more. looks like they always give you the answer halfway between your latest guess and 1000. hint with no greens it'll give you 1/1000, hint again and it'll give 500/1000, then 750/1000, etc.
― ✖, Thursday, 21 April 2022 18:20 (two years ago) link
*highest guess, not latest
got stuck on 993, was about to give up and used the hint, got it immediately and felt incredibly dirty - never again! giving up is more honourable
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Friday, 22 April 2022 06:20 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #83 in 121 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.94. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.72.
yeah I also got stuck on #993 and got it with the help of a thesaurus. no regrets.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 22 April 2022 08:12 (two years ago) link
my biggest problem with this game continues to be that I can hit on a word like assist on guess #33 but the target word never occurs to me until almost 100 guesses later even though the semantic leap from one to the other is very short
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 22 April 2022 08:16 (two years ago) link
I also tried the hint today after getting no higher than 977 for over 70 guesses :/
It gave me 988 which helped put me in the right ballpark.
― Roz, Friday, 22 April 2022 08:51 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #83 in 27 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.46. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.13. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― johnny crunch, Friday, 22 April 2022 10:43 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #83 in 16 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.64. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 14.38. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― nxd, Friday, 22 April 2022 15:47 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #83 in 57 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.07. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.15. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Friday, 22 April 2022 16:58 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #83 in 18 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 14.02. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 11.67. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― ledge, Friday, 22 April 2022 19:27 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #84 in 116 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.55. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 31.61 (906/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
This was brutal today, 994 on guess 17 and 996 on 28 but still took me another 88 guesses before I got it.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 23 April 2022 10:17 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #84 in 123 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -9.18. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #48. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 24.34 (253/1000).
Yes, today's was horrible. Lots of guesses connected with hitting, throwing and squeezing before I got there, and I am sure many who got there quicker would have done so via other routes.
― Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 23 April 2022 11:45 (two years ago) link
Also took me 123. Didn't feel like it was too brutal, tbh, just took throwing a lot of words at it.
― emil.y, Saturday, 23 April 2022 13:06 (two years ago) link
stuck on 991 with 193 guesses, having a mare today.
― calzino, Saturday, 23 April 2022 13:18 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #84 in 111 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.23. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 34.39 (950/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Deceptively difficult!
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Saturday, 23 April 2022 13:22 (two years ago) link
took a couple of days off, back on my bullshit
I solved Semantle #85 in 46 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 14.89. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #14. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 10.49. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 24 April 2022 00:19 (two years ago) link
75 but needed a hint. :/
― Roz, Sunday, 24 April 2022 05:18 (two years ago) link
got it in 6! set < group < join > mix < assemble, bingo
― ledge, Sunday, 24 April 2022 08:34 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #85 in 39 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.40. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #19. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 31.44 (832/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 24 April 2022 10:16 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #85 in 28 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.77. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.43.
yesterday's took me 205, but I got forge early today and it was quite a straightforward path to the answer.
― calzino, Sunday, 24 April 2022 10:19 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #85 in 28 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.37. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 11.05. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Easiest one for me in a while, which was nice.
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Sunday, 24 April 2022 16:27 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #85 in 65 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.83. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #19. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 17.63. https://semantle.novalis.org/
first green was "sit" at 923 which was unfortunate, dawdled around for too long with that before prepare > organize (989) and then took way too long to get the answer from there
― ✖, Sunday, 24 April 2022 19:34 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #86 in 54 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.26. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #36. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 29.35 (518/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
A relatively painless one, for once.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Monday, 25 April 2022 00:40 (two years ago) link
70. Got sidetracked a little bit by guesses related to extreme sports (bungee, skydiver, paraglider etc), but getting "rock" put me back on track
― Roz, Monday, 25 April 2022 01:23 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #86 in 88 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.32. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 23.51. https://semantle.novalis.org/
got stuck on bodies of water...the rivers and the lakes that i'm used to
― ✖, Monday, 25 April 2022 01:41 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #86 in 31 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.81. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 52.95 (995/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 25 April 2022 01:43 (two years ago) link
Got tower at 4, that lead to a bunch of castle/fortress/roof/etc. stuff
Gave up today after 96 guesses.Was never going to get it. Got fixated on words relating to sleep and the end of the day having had a reasonably high Green- bed - on guess 4.
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 25 April 2022 07:54 (two years ago) link
38, rather unexpectedly. heaven and paradise were my highest not greens so went for beach, then a few sea related words, then cave, and got it on the next guess.
― ledge, Monday, 25 April 2022 08:05 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #86 in 111 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.30. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #77. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 35.73 (864/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 25 April 2022 08:17 (two years ago) link
i’m terrible at this and usually wander off but today i decided to try and finish it for once and then suddenly got it in 33. my nearest word was 24.93 (cold) so it was surprising and almost unsatisfying to get the FOUND! announcement
― estela, Monday, 25 April 2022 08:58 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #86 in 47 guesses. Almost got stuck on watery terms but waterfall was the prompt to move to other topographical features, and wasn't too far from there.
― emil.y, Monday, 25 April 2022 12:16 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #86 in 79 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.62. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #21. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 27.74 (346/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
The word was the last thing mountain-related that I hadn't guessed.
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Monday, 25 April 2022 12:51 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #86 in 121 guesses with 1 hint. My first guess had a similarity of 1.87. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate (hint) guess had a similarity of 48.48 (984/1000).
After a week off, I was about to give this up, then decided to try the hint function and found it on the next guess. :-|
― weatheringdaleson, Monday, 25 April 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #87 in 228 guesses with 1 hint. My first guess had a similarity of 6.52. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #19. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 55.64 (995/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
that sucked, stuck forever after cleanup at 121 after wasting a bunch of time because poop and litter were my first two greens.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 00:25 (two years ago) link
136. Didn't even get close until 129th attempt.
― calzino, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 01:17 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #87 in 82 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.64. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 48.89.
That penultimate guess was oilspill 48.89 ???? which I guessed after getting oil at 899/1000. Making a two-word phrase a compound word is maybe an underused search technique?
― weatheringdaleson, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 03:43 (two years ago) link
got it after 138 with that hint, i was on the pollution track and up in the 980s but was stuck thinking about oil slicks and the like, didn't think of going more general.
― ledge, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 08:04 (two years ago) link
389, lots of greens, can't get there. Should probably give up!
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 12:25 (two years ago) link
Finally!
I solved Semantle #87 in 392 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.76. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #53. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 40.49 (974/1000).
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 12:27 (two years ago) link
Fucking hell, 176. Thought I was having a hard time with it but sounds like a lot of you had it worse. Was entirely stuck on disaster at 989, lots of synonyms and also subtypes of disaster. Finally broke through with leak.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 18:56 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #87 in 165 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -2.30. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #29. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 12.56. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Lol, my game went exactly the same as emil.y's.
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 20:01 (two years ago) link
So that's what it feels like!
I solved Semantle #88 in 16 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -0.18. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of -0.99.
― weatheringdaleson, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 00:47 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #88 in 25 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.28. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #21. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.29. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 02:22 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #88 in 68 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.81. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #65. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 9.05. https://semantle.novalis.org/
could've had this about 40 guesses sooner but i've developed a stupid habit of just ignoring my highest non-greens for more random guesses. i had "cancer" as my highest guess for a long time, finally decided to use that and went toxic > poison (300) > alcohol
― ✖, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 03:19 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #88 in 3 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 26.49 (227/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 35.43 (851/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
I will never top this lol
― Roz, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 07:52 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #88 in 72 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.93. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 10.42. https://semantle.novalis.org/
My first green was sex at 843 which looking at my guesses was a revealing window into my mind, broadened it eventually to debauchery and was fairly straightforward.
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 08:04 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #88 in 133 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.29. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #112. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.10. my 1st green was 'sugar'
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 08:19 (two years ago) link
24 - food was my first green, after fairly high scores for animal, water, eat. When the answer's a very common word it does seem to help to work up from general terms and pay attention to the cold guesses.
― ledge, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 12:20 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #88 in 81 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.33. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #25. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 56.92 (994/1000).
A case of a lot of illegal gateway drugs leading me onto booze
― calzino, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 13:20 (two years ago) link
Wow, shit, I had such a different game from the rest of you. I ended up getting it in 172 with ZERO greens. None of the starter words I could think of today got me anywhere, eventually I was getting closest with religious terms, which took me to 'forbidden things', which finally took me to 'prohibition' (still not in the green but my best hit), which gave me the target word.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 14:59 (two years ago) link
40 - 1st significant green was blood
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 16:37 (two years ago) link
Onto #89 and this is a first for me: I've got 999/1000 and I still can't get it. I'm going to feel like a right moron if I give up.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 28 April 2022 00:47 (two years ago) link
gave up at 981
morality, chivalry, religions were not leading me to equality
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 28 April 2022 01:00 (two years ago) link
This is a first: I solved Semantle #88 in 158 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.25. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #157. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 47.35 (971/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
156 guesses without a green, then #971, then the word.
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Thursday, 28 April 2022 01:07 (two years ago) link
This was on alcohol.
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Thursday, 28 April 2022 01:08 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #89 in 38 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.09. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #31.
piece of pish!
― calzino, Thursday, 28 April 2022 01:10 (two years ago) link
Well that was a mighty slog, got it in 171. First green was marriage, which led me down all sorts of rabbit holes, but eventually got to gender, then feminism, then emancipation (999/1000) which had me stuck for a while...
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 28 April 2022 01:14 (two years ago) link
from prejudice my last half dozen guesses were top greens and I just knew I'd nail it fast.
― calzino, Thursday, 28 April 2022 01:19 (two years ago) link
#89 in 87. weird game, my highest guess was 942/1000. landed on the solution abt 25 random guesses after.
― Roz, Thursday, 28 April 2022 03:56 (two years ago) link
This was on [show hidden text].
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Wednesday, April 27, 2022 9:08 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
i'm impressed you solved it in such a state
― ✖, Thursday, 28 April 2022 06:34 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #89 in 100 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.34. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #74. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 36.38 (672/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
when the list of greens covers this much ground it leads to some real frustrating games. communism was outside the green but socialism was 948. republic was outside the green but democracy was 988. etc
― ✖, Thursday, 28 April 2022 06:36 (two years ago) link
A slog indeed!
I solved Semantle #89 in 185 guesses with 2 hints. My first guess had a similarity of 8.11. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #29. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 24.58.
went round the houses with words connected with religion. Used the hint twice. Not sure I will bother again!
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 28 April 2022 09:41 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #89 in 57 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.92. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #34. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 50.28 (975/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
One of my better ones today with a relatively straightforward run from first green to finish.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 28 April 2022 12:39 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #89 in 117 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.59. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #53. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 57.67 (997/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Thursday, 28 April 2022 12:41 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #89 in 45 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.09. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 28.64.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 28 April 2022 12:42 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #89 in 68 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.74. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #28. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 38.15 (771/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
First green was 'marriage', stuck on general stuff surrounding that until I hit on 'gay', easy from there.
― emil.y, Thursday, 28 April 2022 13:32 (two years ago) link
feeling very dim but i'm stuck, with #998 and (after a hint) #999 and all the words mentioned in spoilers above.
― ledge, Thursday, 28 April 2022 14:52 (two years ago) link
after getting #999 i was disappointed it wasn't manumission
― ledge, Thursday, 28 April 2022 14:53 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #89 in 129 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.17. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 13.87.
I had peace/happiness/prosperity, but I didn't really have anything until universal/inclusive!
― weatheringdaleson, Thursday, 28 April 2022 15:16 (two years ago) link
163, yes i am very dim.
― ledge, Thursday, 28 April 2022 15:20 (two years ago) link
I had 4 ???? words though which is some consolation.
― ledge, Thursday, 28 April 2022 15:21 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #90 in 83 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.94. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #50. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 14.54. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Another weird one. Took me ages to get to green, then kind of lucked into the solution -was trying variations of “device”, “gadget”, randomly punched in “phone” which was a lower green, got it right after.
― Roz, Friday, 29 April 2022 04:00 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #90 in 149 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.11. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #74. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 76.54 (998/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Yeesh 135 earplugs 62.11 994/1000 134 earplug 56.81 990/1000 98 earmuffs 52.54 986/1000 97 earmuff
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 29 April 2022 05:02 (two years ago) link
Best one in a while!
I solved Semantle #90 in 36 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.03. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 58.42 (991/1000). the word that set me on the right track today was 'guitar'. Although it was the 3rd of my 7 greens, it was def the one which was crucial.
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 29 April 2022 08:15 (two years ago) link
100 guesses and still no greens.... this is going to take a while
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 29 April 2022 08:21 (two years ago) link
got it in 98 after loads of greens (stereo, boombox, microphone), another day where i couldn't dislodge the obvious word from my brain. another four mystery words though - walkman, discman, ipod, hifi.
― ledge, Friday, 29 April 2022 10:00 (two years ago) link
117 but I cheated and succumbed to the hint button because I was getting nowhere. Never doing that again it just totally ruins the whole game. I feel empty and worthless!
― calzino, Friday, 29 April 2022 10:05 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #90 in 218 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.12. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #121. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 24.34.
music is one of my regular starter words but today I didn't try it until guess #146, go figure
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 29 April 2022 10:12 (two years ago) link
best words: pantyhose, bra, scrotums, argyle, gurgly, wiggler, tss, lavalava, auscultation
― ledge, Friday, 29 April 2022 11:05 (two years ago) link
self-rejected thread ideas: list 1000 words closer to 'headphones' than 'scrotums'
― ledge, Friday, 29 April 2022 12:34 (two years ago) link
one of my cop-out hints was scratchable ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― calzino, Friday, 29 April 2022 12:36 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #90 in 149 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.83. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #57. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 76.54 (998/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
This one took me way longer than it should have.
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Friday, 29 April 2022 13:19 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #90 in 157 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 36.12 (771/1000). My penultimate guess had a similarity of 13.59. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Also feel like this took me longer than it should have, especially after the good green to start. Got loads of unusual words today, you can see the paths I was going down: autotune, arpeggiator, wifi, ringtone, boop (yeah, I don't know why I tried 'boop' either but I did also try 'beep' and 'bleep'), tremelo (oddly, this misspelling scored higher than the correct spelling I tried immediately after), bluetooth, dongle. Most enjoyable unusual word I can remember was from a few days ago, where it accepted 'shitstorm' as a valid but odd answer.
― emil.y, Friday, 29 April 2022 14:25 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #90 in 34 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.12. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #22. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 76.54 (998/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
thought I'd done this before lol
― nxd, Friday, 29 April 2022 15:37 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #90 in 243 guesses with 1 hint. My first guess had a similarity of 7.82. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #84. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.76.
Highest green was microphone at guess 112, until the hint at guess 238 -- earplug. Aargh!.
― weatheringdaleson, Friday, 29 April 2022 21:22 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #91 in 117 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.53. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #14. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 40.47 (972/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 30 April 2022 00:54 (two years ago) link
I did not know Bill Paxton was in a new wave bandhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkz0Lx6VyxA
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 30 April 2022 00:56 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnxOY4soITM
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 30 April 2022 00:58 (two years ago) link
oops
Slogged my way through 143 guesses before getting it. Once again, the game shows its bias towards sports, because I'd have thought the other meaning of the word would be more common.
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 30 April 2022 02:00 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #91 in 178 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.89. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #103. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 12.65. https://semantle.novalis.org/
One of those ones when being a Brit and not following American football was a disadvantage.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 30 April 2022 07:05 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #91 in 136 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.96. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 16.43.
100 more than yesterday! I think I was hindered by my first Green, 'yard', being a mere sliver of a green and one with multiple meanings. But yeah, once I twigged it was a sport one I cycled through a ton of related guesses.
― Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 30 April 2022 08:41 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #91 in 267 guesses with 3 hints. My first guess had a similarity of 6.42. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #96. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 59.92 (997/1000).
It wasn't necessarily a sport one. I had 'vile' at guess #130 which is more or less a synonym of the target word, but I still didn't try the target word for another 140 guesses and 3 hints.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 30 April 2022 12:21 (two years ago) link
77. highest green before I really got on the right track was game, also had football and when I started thinking about the american version I quickly got it.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Saturday, 30 April 2022 12:37 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #91 in 70 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.86. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #34. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 29.76 (738/1000).
I got campaign quite early which led me towards words of war.
― calzino, Saturday, 30 April 2022 12:51 (two years ago) link
my pc died this week so all my stats on this and wordle are gone, but at least my shameful use of the hint button is wiped off the slate as well.
― calzino, Saturday, 30 April 2022 12:57 (two years ago) link
113 today - helped by reading the Ukraine ilx thread at the same time.
― emil.y, Saturday, 30 April 2022 13:41 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #91 in 26 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 18.22. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 24.18 (244/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Basically went disgusting>foul>obscene>answer with only a couple other guesses in between. Weird one.
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Saturday, 30 April 2022 17:06 (two years ago) link
i got #91 in 168 but after reading Dan Worsley's post, it took me only a few more guesses to get it I am American and grew up watching NFL on tv with my dad
― sarahell, Saturday, 30 April 2022 17:56 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #91 in 221 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 14.90. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #73. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 18.53.
The sport angle didn't come until very late with blitz at guess 214 (and I was still thinking "war"). It was the dual lines of blitz/attack and vile/vulgar which finally got me there.
― weatheringdaleson, Saturday, 30 April 2022 21:38 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #91 in 125 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.74. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of -1.47. https://semantle.novalis.org/
i also never got the football angle, my answers were 100% about war and general violence. i guessed "sport" early on and abandoned the concept when it didn't hit. i think i have to stick with "ball" instead.
― ✖, Saturday, 30 April 2022 22:53 (two years ago) link
1 butts 21.20
― ✖, Sunday, 1 May 2022 04:39 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #92 in 53 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.33. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 10.91.
Good one today.
― weatheringdaleson, Sunday, 1 May 2022 05:22 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #92 in 62 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.20. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 20.38. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― Roz, Sunday, 1 May 2022 05:39 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #92 in 116 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.54. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #43. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 20.06. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Got in a groove and when I got the theme, I started singing lyrics to Ebony and Ivory and got it nearly straight away.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 1 May 2022 08:41 (two years ago) link
I got #92 in 27 guesses -- got in the middle green with guess #2 which was basically a recurring word in a conversation with a friend from earlier tonight
― sarahell, Sunday, 1 May 2022 09:36 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #92 in 228 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.86. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #17. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 20.05.
second day in a row of more than 200 guesses. at least this time I didn't resort to a hint.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 1 May 2022 11:47 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #92 in 177 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.96. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 33.42
found the going a bit tough today, was mainly pursuing words related to work and "collaborate" opened it up
― calzino, Sunday, 1 May 2022 12:05 (two years ago) link
got it in 54, no idea how. was fruitlessly pursuing words related to 'love' at #611, got a lower green with 'relationship', without much hope tried 'joint', #991, got it next guess.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Sunday, 1 May 2022 12:12 (two years ago) link
semantle seems to be using a different language for the closest words: gether(#999 wtf), jelling (is this a u.s. spelling?), comradery, agreat. also grandads, asses, butts, tanoa, grubbies, cheesecloth, gogos, feis.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Sunday, 1 May 2022 12:37 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #92 in 83 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.51. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #22. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.50.
― Grandpont Genie, Sunday, 1 May 2022 14:06 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #93 in 16 guesses. My first guess (word) had a similarity of 26.44. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3 (essay, 994/1000). My penultimate guess (precis, which was too uncommon a word to be a likely solution) had a similarity of 29.68.
kinda hurts to stumble upon a top 10 word so early in the game only to flounder around for the next 12 guesses. this time I was obsessive enough to compile a list of possible guesses in a text file before deciding which ones to try out, but I don't think that helped much
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Monday, 2 May 2022 00:16 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #93 in 23 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.69. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 64.56 (995/1000).
I had lyric and song, then got verse on guess 22. Glad I didn't go on about songsmiths and such.
― weatheringdaleson, Monday, 2 May 2022 00:31 (two years ago) link
Woah - in 16 and 23 guesses! I'm up to guess 86 and have been stuck on 992/1000 for the past 10 guesses - desperately trying to hold off from the humiliation of the hint button...
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 2 May 2022 00:39 (two years ago) link
And amazingly got it the very next go. I'd been pursuing a musical tangent, which obviously wasn't quite right, despite the myriad greens for the likes of song, hymn, ballad, concerto, lullaby etc
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 2 May 2022 00:43 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #93 in 30 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.59. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 64.56 (995/1000).
I got lucky with "novel" on my 9th guess, yeah good job because I'm supposed to be getting up early
― calzino, Monday, 2 May 2022 00:46 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #93 in 60 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.63. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #40. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 0.89. https://semantle.novalis.org/
also got to 992 semi-quickly via vague religious terms at the top of my non-greens > prayer > hymn. luckily guessed song next which didn't get me totally stuck in religion, more song terms, and then straight from that to the answer.
― ✖, Monday, 2 May 2022 01:43 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #93 in 53 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 19.40. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #50. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 61.53 (991/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 2 May 2022 01:54 (two years ago) link
knight and medieval stuff eventually lead to opera>story>novel>novella>poem
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 2 May 2022 01:55 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #93 in 21 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.79. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 65.75 (996/1000).
good to have a successful day after a long streak of nightmares
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 2 May 2022 07:30 (two years ago) link
i got #93 in 81 guesses -- the variants are what made this take so long, i had poet, poetry, and poetic and then spent 20 more guesses before I returned to guessing variants -- either the words are getting easier, or it's just dumb chance that this the first time I've gotten two in a row at under 100 guesses.
― sarahell, Monday, 2 May 2022 07:49 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #93 in 256 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.40. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #67. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 23.64. https://semantle.com/
Hard work today, got portrait as first green then got bogged down in art and artistic terms for too long.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 2 May 2022 08:02 (two years ago) link
ugh -- I've definitely been there before -- I feel like, as I've played this game for a bit now, that the words tend to be more common and general (or at least have more generalistic meanings) so I didn't spend time on this one guessing stuff like villanelle
― sarahell, Monday, 2 May 2022 08:17 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #93 in 66 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 17.29. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #37. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 37.23 (569/1000).
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 2 May 2022 12:32 (two years ago) link
My earliest green was book which helped a lot. Probably would've got there quicker were it not for a diversion into component parts of the book such as chapter, page etc.
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 2 May 2022 12:35 (two years ago) link
*boom*
I solved Semantle #93 in 22 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 21.38. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.63. https://semantle.com/
― emil.y, Monday, 2 May 2022 13:15 (two years ago) link
Similar level of difficulty to yesterday.
I solved Semantle #94 in 56 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -3.66. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #22. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 49.59 (998/1000).
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 02:29 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #94 in 276 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.26. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #26. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 13.36.
Much more difficult than yesterday lol.
― weatheringdaleson, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 03:46 (two years ago) link
Indeed - took a hint after 200 guesses and it was a word I'd never heard of! drupa
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 03:54 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #94 in 93 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -2.40. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 17.46.
was mainly thinking about receptions, entrance halls in public and residential buildings and "tent" sent me in the right direction.
― calzino, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 06:28 (two years ago) link
Took be 134 to get a green yesterday and another few dozen to get the answer; got my first green in 34 today but it was completely misleading and i eventually solved it in 329, after a hint at 293! my first green was machine which led nowhere, after a while it looked like it was leaning towards recording technology (with a side helping of office equipment), if i'd brainstormed things you might find in a recording studio i might have got it, but the hint of 'aisles' set me on the right track.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 08:35 (two years ago) link
Haven’t played this for a while - was actually amazing for productivity to take this out of the day’s schedule, it is devilish addictive. Anyway had a good first go back.
I solved Semantle #94 in 32 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -3.66. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #18. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 31.68 (957/1000). https://semantle.com/
Got “shop” quite early and wasn’t too hard from there.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 10:32 (two years ago) link
i got #94 in 183 guesses, including a hint from the game as well as ledge's ... in hindsight, i had gallery, showroom, shop, storefront, store, window, vitrine I should have gotten it earlier
― sarahell, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 12:58 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #94 in 39 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.97. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 49.59 (998/1000). https://semantle.com/
After yesterday’s drudge this was a breeze. First green was lunch, soon became clear it wasn’t directly food related so thought of things which occur when having lunch and moved quickly from there.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 14:42 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #94 in 122 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.19. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #14. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 24.32 (745/1000). https://semantle.com/
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 18:15 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #95 in 87 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.50. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #31. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 62.28 (997/1000). https://semantle.com/
Could have had this anywhere after guess 65:65 mother 51.18 987/1000After that, I only had three cold guesses.
― weatheringdaleson, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 01:58 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #95 in 86 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -0.05. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #54. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 40.02 (914/1000). https://semantle.com/
I’d gotten “child” (994/100) at guess #55 but of course I guessed every other single family member before the one that was the actual word -_-
― Roz, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 02:01 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #95 in 15 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 20.42. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 60.62 (996/1000). https://semantle.com/
my best ever i think. woman as one of my first guesses > female family members > grandmother > etc
― ✖, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 02:26 (two years ago) link
Slogged through 101 guesses. I got 'teacher' 558/1000 early on which sent me off in all the wrong directions. Interesting that grandmother and mother are way higher than grandfather and father.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 03:56 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #95 in 135 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.12. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #49. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 38.24 (885/1000).
that was quite a slog, didn't even get close until 80 odd guesses where infant sent me in the right direction.
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 07:00 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #95 in 23 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 22.86. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 5.49.
could have had this in even less, had grandmother at guess #16 but didn't think to try the target word for another seven guesses.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 07:47 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #95 in 70 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.58. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #42. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 46.30 (966/1000). 1st green was 'baby'. Lots of family-related words to churn through!
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 08:42 (two years ago) link
This is killing me. 114 guesses and I've got 992, 993, 994, 995, 996, 997.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 12:29 (two years ago) link
i'm so dumb.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 12:42 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #95 in 53 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.88. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 44.22 (953/1000). https://semantle.com/
I had nearly the entire top 10 before getting the word.
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 12:49 (two years ago) link
42. Basically the same as lots of other people here - got on the right track fairly fast but had to go through an entire family tree to hit the right word.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 13:13 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #95 in 17 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.73. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 46.30 (966/1000). https://semantle.com/
― nxd, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 15:58 (two years ago) link
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Wednesday, May 4, 2022 5:29 AM (four hours ago)
i was there ... I got it in 100 but it took me a while to get there keep going on the family track
― sarahell, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 17:14 (two years ago) link
Whoa, I got it in 13 guesses. Effectively the same story as ✖, above
― a legible shriek (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 17:47 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #96 in 11 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.02. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 37.86 (909/1000). https://semantle.com/
ok wtf
― ✖, Thursday, 5 May 2022 00:09 (two years ago) link
second guess "woman" again because why not... 751. then "man" which was only 302, so some more womanly words... aunt/womanly/female/girl, none of which hit. "person" was 607. so switch to professions. "lawyer" is always one of my first guesses. that was 909 so i tried legislator. i'm never going to have this luck again
― ✖, Thursday, 5 May 2022 00:16 (two years ago) link
Got it in 49 guesses. Similar, albeit more long-winded path to X. First green was person, then it was just working through professions etc.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 5 May 2022 00:24 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #96 in 123 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.59. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 5.31. https://semantle.com/
43 greens
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 5 May 2022 00:24 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #96 in 22 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -3.02. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 65.57 (996/1000). https://semantle.com/
politics is always one of my earliest guesses so fairly quickly from there.
― Roz, Thursday, 5 May 2022 01:42 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #96 in 132 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.59. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 57.96 (992/1000).
Every word but the word (50 greens).
― weatheringdaleson, Thursday, 5 May 2022 01:45 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #96 in 84 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.01. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 61.65 (994/1000).
spent most of my time going through education/academia until I diverted into law professionals to finally get there.
― calzino, Thursday, 5 May 2022 06:40 (two years ago) link
Yeah this was turning out like yesterday (after 70 guesses I had 998, 997, 996, 994) so I turned to the thesaurus :/ I'm not sure I'd have come up with it myself, it doesn't strike me as a common word at all - maybe more so in the US?
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Thursday, 5 May 2022 08:27 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #96 in 192 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -6.35. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 31.05 (701/1000).
politics is normally one of my starter words but today I didn't enter it until guess #148, go figure
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 5 May 2022 09:55 (two years ago) link
had politician at guess #152 but the target word didn't occur to me for another 40 guesses.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 5 May 2022 09:56 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #96 in 106 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.41. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 27.70 (443/1000).
There are so many potential wrong turns in this one. I got fixated on various words to do with educators, which scored quite highly.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 5 May 2022 10:17 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #96 in 8 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -5.39. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 29.46 (598/1000). https://semantle.com/
It helps when you get 998 with guess #6.
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Thursday, 5 May 2022 12:52 (two years ago) link
Got #96 in 40! Unusually good showing for me. 8 guesses, PBKR, wow! I thought this would be a hard one because the word is kind of unusual even in the US and if you went through a mental list of elected officials like I did I'd think the word would often be missed.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 5 May 2022 13:01 (two years ago) link
xps nice work, i was stuck on 998 for a long time lol
― nxd, Thursday, 5 May 2022 16:20 (two years ago) link
Stuck on 999, tempted to give up but will keep trying.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 5 May 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
don't get done, get thesaurus!
― calzino, Thursday, 5 May 2022 19:48 (two years ago) link
Got there in the end, annoyingly I’d tried legislate and legislation much earlier.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 5 May 2022 20:49 (two years ago) link
I gave up on Semantle #97 in 433 guesses with 12 hints. My first guess had a similarity of 7.50. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #27. My last guess had a similarity of 56.59 (999/1000). https://semantle.com/
https://media.giphy.com/media/vg7o2ov3Nm34Y/giphy.gif
― weatheringdaleson, Friday, 6 May 2022 02:15 (two years ago) link
I gave up on Semantle #97 in 334 guesses with 4 hints. My first guess had a similarity of 7.09. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #202. My last guess had a similarity of 32.96 (837/1000). https://semantle.com/
now that's more like it
― ✖, Friday, 6 May 2022 02:23 (two years ago) link
Yeah I gave up as well after 200-odd guesses and a hint. And I'm not sure I'd have guessed it had I persevered. I think adverbs are inherently more difficult than other parts of speech in this game.
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 6 May 2022 02:25 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #97 in 128 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.45. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #78. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 21.22. https://semantle.com/
this was hard! After over a hundred cold guesses and very low greens, I started randomly punching in words without thinking too hard and got lucky with “seldom” and “sometimes” which put me on the right path. Needed a thesaurus to get past 999/1000 though.
― Roz, Friday, 6 May 2022 03:55 (two years ago) link
What a nightmare. One of my worst. 332 and counting...
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 6 May 2022 07:59 (two years ago) link
Gave up on 382 :-(
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 6 May 2022 08:29 (two years ago) link
another day of all the greens, i've got #999 even. 'only' at 141 guesses though!
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Friday, 6 May 2022 08:30 (two years ago) link
I thesaurus cheated after 224, which is as bad as giving up imo. I guess I might have got it if i'd continued to wrack my brain to think of another word for the same thing I'd already thought of twenty words for.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Friday, 6 May 2022 12:59 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #97 in 200 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.44. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #81. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 14.15. https://semantle.com/
Absolutely brutal. Took me so long just to get a couple of minor greens. Could have probably taken even longer.
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Friday, 6 May 2022 13:11 (two years ago) link
I gave up on Semantle #97 in 291 guesses with 3 hints. My first guess had a similarity of 11.00. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #160. My last guess had a similarity of 24.09. https://semantle.com/
Good to see I wasn’t the only one having a stinker.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 6 May 2022 21:06 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #98 in 188 guesses with 1 hint. My first guess had a similarity of 11.52. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #28. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 29.40 (771/1000). https://semantle.com/
Another tough one
― Roz, Saturday, 7 May 2022 07:53 (two years ago) link
My second giving up in a row. Got into the 970s but just couldn't crack it. I'm getting worse at this :(
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 7 May 2022 08:01 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #98 in 239 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -2.60. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #73. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.91 (244/1000). https://semantle.com/
Another killer. That last jump or two took forever.
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Saturday, 7 May 2022 13:50 (two years ago) link
Oh dear god. I have had 999 for a while now and I *think* I've done all the possible variations on it, but I've run out of synonyms (for my other top words, too). I refuse to give up but I'm running out of options here.
― emil.y, Saturday, 7 May 2022 16:19 (two years ago) link
Fuck, finally! Power of posting, I think. 412 guesses.
― emil.y, Saturday, 7 May 2022 16:32 (two years ago) link
372 guesses with 2 hints ... my first guess was 905 ...
― sarahell, Saturday, 7 May 2022 17:47 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #98 in 361 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 16.27. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #31. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 27.72 (682/1000). My first yeesh was....
― weatheringdaleson, Saturday, 7 May 2022 18:02 (two years ago) link
I got #982 after 35 guesses, no desire to carry on 30 guesses later so I cheated - I can see I wasn't very close.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Saturday, 7 May 2022 19:12 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #98 in 254 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.00. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.29 (133/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 7 May 2022 21:30 (two years ago) link
Considerably easier today, thank God - got #99 in 78 guesses
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 8 May 2022 01:03 (two years ago) link
definitely easier! I got #99 in 38 guesses. it helped that i had to work today
― sarahell, Sunday, 8 May 2022 01:07 (two years ago) link
I got Semantle 99 on my first guess! https://semantle.com/
my first guess always actually came in, ridiculous
― nxd, Sunday, 8 May 2022 01:27 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #99 in 70 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 19.57. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #70. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 2.79. https://semantle.com/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 8 May 2022 01:35 (two years ago) link
Not quite dumb luck but close - no greens but bartender/chef/player scored higher so I decided it was something professional
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 8 May 2022 01:37 (two years ago) link
having so much trouble with this after getting into the 400s on my first guess. topped out at 740.
― ✖, Sunday, 8 May 2022 02:16 (two years ago) link
Definitely easier today - got it in 23.
― Roz, Sunday, 8 May 2022 02:51 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #99 in 25 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.25. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #24. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 34.39 (924/1000).*happy keanu gif*
― weatheringdaleson, Sunday, 8 May 2022 04:50 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #99 in 31 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.10. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #21. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 37.54 (962/1000). https://semantle.com/
Got my mojo back after two days of hints and abandonments. First green was pretty, after trying a few around appearance thought of The Sex Pistols and got it in three steps.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 8 May 2022 05:38 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #99 in 44 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 17.01. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #32. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 12.16. decent one today. 1st green was 'honest', my next was 'wage'
― Grandpont Genie, Sunday, 8 May 2022 09:22 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #99 in 17 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.12. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 37.93 (965/1000).
I got boss on my 6th guess!
― calzino, Sunday, 8 May 2022 09:43 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #99 in 16 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 18.05. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #15. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 31.28 (867/1000).
a relief to be back on something approaching form after the last few days
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 8 May 2022 12:18 (two years ago) link
not sure what's up with 996 though.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 8 May 2022 12:21 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #99 in 78 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 19.97. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 23.43 (303/1000). https://semantle.com/
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Sunday, 8 May 2022 17:15 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #99 in 40 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.31. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #22. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 12.77. https://semantle.com/
weird. managed to get 791/1000 with business at guess 31, and lucked into the answer on 40 -- even though my guess at 39 should have turned me in the opposite direction? i wrote occupation and it was cold??? but sometimes i just think of 3 words at once and just type em all regardless of hits, so im glad that worked out for me...
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Sunday, 8 May 2022 23:18 (two years ago) link
if you imagine a couple of é's in there it makes more sense
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Sunday, 8 May 2022 23:19 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #100 in 118 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.74. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #61. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 57.40 (997/1000).
Cute.
― weatheringdaleson, Monday, 9 May 2022 01:18 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #100 in 19 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.56. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.64. https://semantle.com/
needed this after yesterday's disaster. i can only imagine mr. semantle has been playing redactle.
― ✖, Monday, 9 May 2022 06:10 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #100 in 49 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.72. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 50.04 (993/1000).
a very straightforward path from monument>history>epoch>millennium etc, last two have been a piece of piss, but worth remembering on saturday I was on 180+ guesses and was too lethargic to finish it.
― calzino, Monday, 9 May 2022 06:42 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #100 in 26 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.13. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #23. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.67 (611/1000). https://semantle.com/
Another good result, sure it won’t last.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 9 May 2022 06:47 (two years ago) link
I think I got lucky with my first green, most of the answers in top 100 would have taken down a totally different rabbit hole.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 9 May 2022 06:51 (two years ago) link
terrible day, 160 guesses, it took me a while to sidestep from nation, colonial, history rather than trying to get more specific.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 9 May 2022 07:20 (two years ago) link
45 yesterday, 96 today, yeah i had nation, world, continent was going nowhere till i remembered i hadn't tried my usual time.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Monday, 9 May 2022 07:52 (two years ago) link
Indeed!
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Monday, 9 May 2022 08:01 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #100 in 2 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 32.55 (947/1000). My penultimate guess had a similarity of 32.55 (947/1000).
Had a hunch, went with it and it paid off.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 9 May 2022 08:26 (two years ago) link
Whoa, nice!
Meanwhile, I struggled today - finally got it in 209. Same as others, I was stuck on history, empire, nation, etc and "times" was very low-scoring so it took me a while to try a different variation ("era").
― Roz, Monday, 9 May 2022 08:30 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #100 in 46 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.21. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #38. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.59 (597/1000). https://semantle.com/
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Monday, 9 May 2022 13:13 (two years ago) link
Got #101 in 102 guesses, but only by getting a couple of hints, which I regard as cheating. After the easy run yesterday, back to the nightmare, basically.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 07:07 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #101 in 44 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.82. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #24. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 21.79. https://semantle.com/
“exercise” was a high cold but tried “rights” after “workout” and “gym” came back lower, and that set me on the correct path
― Roz, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 07:24 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #101 in 74 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.57. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #14. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 24.28 (175/1000). https://semantle.com/
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 12:47 (two years ago) link
Couldn't get this one, think I've lost my mojo.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 13:11 (two years ago) link
Got #102 in 32 guesses, best effort in a while. Got in the high greens early with 'politics' and riffed from there.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 00:59 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #102 in 95 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 18.08. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 35.05 (850/1000). https://semantle.com/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 01:10 (two years ago) link
Got #102 in 25! Basically was very lucky to randomly guess imbroglio at #11 and from there it was just working my way up the green ladder.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 01:28 (two years ago) link
14. :) ”politics” was my fourth guess.
― Roz, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 04:39 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #102 in 69 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.16. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 3.27.
politics was my seventh guess but I didn't think to try the target word for another sixty-odd guesses after that.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 06:19 (two years ago) link
people, you have twitter/facebook/etc to show yr big brainies. this messageboard is reserved crappy pop culture opinions.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 07:48 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #102 in 71 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.22. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 26.96 (369/1000).
Should have got it earlier as was into the greens quickly.
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 07:55 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #102 in 128 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -2.57. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #33. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 21.33. https://semantle.com/
Embarrassing. Had vote, candidate, election and everything else political, then got sidetracked into every synonym for conflict, war, disagreement, etc. etc..
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 12:16 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #102 in 88 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -0.90. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #46. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 27.41 (434/1000). https://semantle.com/
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 14:29 (two years ago) link
#102 in 102, was worried I wasn't going to get it over the line again.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 14:32 (two years ago) link
the closest words escalate pretty quickly.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 14:38 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #102 in 123 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.30. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 28.64 (551/1000). https://semantle.com/
Middling today, loads of greens in the 900s before the breakthrough.
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 15:51 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #102 in 81 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.95. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #72. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.79 (205/1000). https://semantle.com/
― nxd, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 16:00 (two years ago) link
took too long to hit green lol
― nxd, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 16:01 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #103 in 38 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.33. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #30. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 33.11 (909/1000). https://semantle.com/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 12 May 2022 00:04 (two years ago) link
Got it in 22. 'Space' was a high cold, hit green with 'rocket', then airplane - flight - FOUND!
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 12 May 2022 00:11 (two years ago) link
I got #103 in 81 guesses (hey that is good for me ok) ... was lucky because i start with random words that pop into my head from recent conversations and emails and my coworker was telling me about a friend of his that was going on a solo sailing trip
― sarahell, Thursday, 12 May 2022 01:18 (two years ago) link
197. Took way too long to get past flight, pretty much guessed every other aviation-related word
― Roz, Thursday, 12 May 2022 02:56 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #103 in 23 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.51. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 59.36 (997/1000).
Hit a middling green with air early on which took me to aircraft and flight in short order.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 12 May 2022 07:42 (two years ago) link
51. Much the same trajectory as ZZ except I tried a few more plane and flight related words, then thought of the answer, then thought 'nah it can't be that'. luckily i tried it anyway.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Thursday, 12 May 2022 07:44 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #103 in 33 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 30.46 (826/1000). My penultimate guess had a similarity of 59.36 (997/1000).
my 1st green was 'crew', followed by 'cabin' so it was a question of whether I focus on boats or planes. Went the right way.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 12 May 2022 07:49 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #103 in 85 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.65. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #30. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 59.36 (997/1000). https://semantle.com/
Didn't get past move for the longest time.
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Thursday, 12 May 2022 12:06 (two years ago) link
53 today. Went into the top words because I wanted to see if there were any related to the meaning of the word indicating the corridor bit at the top of stairs. There were not, as far as I could see, which led me to question if that's even a thing in American English? Do you guys call it something else? I mean, obviously it could just be that it is a much 'lesser' meaning, but I am curious now.
― emil.y, Thursday, 12 May 2022 12:48 (two years ago) link
yeah i was curious too, stairs is fairly high but not green.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Thursday, 12 May 2022 13:27 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #104 in 17 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 17.41. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 64.86 (998/1000). https://semantle.com/
lucky this was one of the occasional days i remember to guess "ball"
― ✖, Friday, 13 May 2022 01:28 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #104 in 94 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.85. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #28. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 50.10. https://semantle.com/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 13 May 2022 01:45 (two years ago) link
the meaning of the word indicating the corridor bit at the top of stairs. There were not, as far as I could see, which led me to question if that's even a thing in American English?
yes, that's what we call it in American English ... at least in my line of work, which deals with such things regularly
― sarahell, Friday, 13 May 2022 07:24 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #104 in 63 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.39. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 13.39.
Had soccer on guess #5 and tournament on guess #26, but didn't think of the target word for another 37 guesses after that.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 13 May 2022 10:35 (two years ago) link
35, despite getting #998 on guess 2.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Friday, 13 May 2022 10:48 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #104 in 54 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.30. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #51. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.24 (296/1000). https://semantle.com/
Stumbled around then went team>group>side>word.
― daBobo (PBKR), Friday, 13 May 2022 12:55 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #104 in 35 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.85. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 21.13.
been too busy to do this for a few days, that felt like an *easy* one.
― calzino, Friday, 13 May 2022 20:46 (two years ago) link
Got #105 in 133 guesses. No hints, but did resort to a thesaurus, and probably wouldn't have got it otherwise. Eventually narrowed it down to something you wear on your head/face, was stuck on 995/1000 (sunglasses) for an age.
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 14 May 2022 01:12 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #105 in 219 guesses with 1 hint. My first guess had a similarity of 13.53. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #162. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 4.72. https://semantle.com/
First green was cupholder... tried every automotive thing I could think of
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 14 May 2022 02:00 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #105 in 124 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.99. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #57. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 24.65. https://semantle.com/
Had windshield/windscreenat 80 and 81, so should have gotten it sooner.
― gonna make you sweat the technique, gonna make you groove is in the heart (PBKR), Saturday, 14 May 2022 13:48 (two years ago) link
161. First green at #86 was jacket, then tried every clothing word I could think of before getting in the 990s with helmet and then goggles.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Saturday, 14 May 2022 13:58 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #105 in 48 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.75. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 45.72 (979/1000).
Enjoyed that one. 1st green was 'glass'
― Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 14 May 2022 14:25 (two years ago) link
179 guesses -- no hints, no thesaurus -- i figured it was some sort of protective garment or term related to such things about 90 guesses in after getting in the green for "knee," "ankle" "wrist" and "shoulder" earlier on
― sarahell, Saturday, 14 May 2022 19:08 (two years ago) link
238 guesses, up to 100 my only greens were carve and chisel, another 80 to luck into stab.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 15 May 2022 00:47 (two years ago) link
Weird one - solved in 81 guesses with no greens, think that’s the first time that’s happened. my highest guess was “stitch” at 30.39
― Roz, Sunday, 15 May 2022 10:36 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #106 in 126 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.78. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 13.30.
― Grandpont Genie, Sunday, 15 May 2022 10:51 (two years ago) link
162. I got that it was some kind of small and cute gesture quite quickly, but it took me ages to get to the actual one.
― emil.y, Sunday, 15 May 2022 13:34 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #106 in 203 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.80. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #36. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 33.03 (480/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 15 May 2022 19:34 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #106 in 30 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.33. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.80. https://semantle.com/
I kind of got this one out of the blue. First one in a while feels like.
― gonna make you sweat the technique, gonna make you groove is in the heart (PBKR), Sunday, 15 May 2022 22:10 (two years ago) link
Got #107 in 70 guesses. Fairly straightforward run there: into the greens with space, then scope, then free - which eventually led to unrestricted - restricted - FOUND!
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 16 May 2022 01:38 (two years ago) link
114, 'huge' and all related words, then 'infinite', 'finite', bingo.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Monday, 16 May 2022 09:54 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #108 in 186 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.84. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 0.87. https://semantle.com/ - took me to 150 to get past eat and meat in the low 100s.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 01:55 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #108 in 133 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.12. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #19. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 12.16.
just firing words out of the thesaurus, hit stick and got to the target word straight from there.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 07:56 (two years ago) link
i got #108 in 72 guesses! Very uncharacteristic! I had "meat" and "athletic" as the two closest guesses to the word -- #52 and #58 -- and I tried words that could be related to both of these
― sarahell, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 08:06 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #108 in 109 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.97. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #69. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.43.'stagger' was the crucial green for me.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 10:57 (two years ago) link
leaning toward giving up
drunk and inebriated in the greens, lead nowhere until I tried tipsy and amorous... nowhere then the hint was persnickety - are we getting words from my great-grandmother's diary?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 02:33 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #109 in 63 guesses with 2 hints. My first guess had a similarity of 14.33. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #59. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 34.06 (298/1000). https://semantle.com/
the more time i commit to redactle the worse i get at semantle. i tried every variation of "memory" i could think of because it was in the high colds.... could have solved it quickly if i'd remembered to guess antonyms but gave up and hinted myself to drunkard > drunk > forget > forgetful
― ✖, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 05:55 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #109 in 32 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.26. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #29. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 11.21.
weird one, my first green was forget but it was a low one so I tried the target word expecting to go a bit higher but not that much... bingo
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 07:37 (two years ago) link
I have a million greens but can't seem to crack it
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 08:16 (two years ago) link
same, can't seem to get past 996. :/ i also have 991, 992 and whole lotta greens below
― Roz, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 08:56 (two years ago) link
Gave up in the end, despite getting into the 990s. Don't think I would have got it though.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 09:53 (two years ago) link
Gave up today. Sounds like my experience is/was similar to a lot of you. I had a very early green which was high scoring - lazy, 4th guess, 979/1000, but it didn't help!
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 10:36 (two years ago) link
finally got it but it was a struggle. 209 guesses
― Roz, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 13:10 (two years ago) link
Having had a rough few days, I fluked #110 in 9 guesses - one of my habitual starter words was 991/1000 and I got it next go.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 19 May 2022 00:17 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #110 in 6 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 24.41. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 32.12 (893/1000).
^ same
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 19 May 2022 06:36 (two years ago) link
i got #110 in 4 guesses -- definitely fluke!
― sarahell, Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:43 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #110 in 23 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 26.98 (491/1000). My penultimate guess had a similarity of 7.48. https://semantle.com/
and here I was feeling good about that score...
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 19 May 2022 18:29 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #111 in 78 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.14. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.31 (109/1000).
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 20 May 2022 06:50 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #112 in 61 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.02. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #30. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 3.77. 1st useful green was 'healthy'
― Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 21 May 2022 10:30 (two years ago) link
first word was #864, knight - no surprise a dead end, then I started getting a bunch of sports related stuff - tennis, soccer, volleyball, baseball all above 900. Tournament was only #492 below all those
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 22 May 2022 00:38 (two years ago) link
#113 in 75 guesses guess 9 was "art" in the green, and guess 16 was "skill" even higher; guessed things related to training/education, trades, and sports and all were cold
― sarahell, Sunday, 22 May 2022 01:29 (two years ago) link
113, my best in a while :( - didn't guess sport till about 70, got some 8/900s with various sports then tried 'math' for the lulz and got a higher green so I thought what's in between sport and math...
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Sunday, 22 May 2022 15:24 (two years ago) link
got #114 in 63. One of the easier ones, I reckon.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 23 May 2022 00:59 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #114 in 23 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.72. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.61. https://semantle.com/
got to 993 after 8 so maybe cudda done better
― nxd, Monday, 23 May 2022 04:23 (two years ago) link
43, got sidetracked on a banking tangent for a while as my first greens were accountant, bank and management
― Roz, Monday, 23 May 2022 05:26 (two years ago) link
#114 in 90 about 1/3 of my guesses were green as I can easily rattle off common business related terms
― sarahell, Monday, 23 May 2022 05:46 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #114 in 13 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 20.39. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 41.78
that's my best result in ages, recently I keep giving up. My first guess was "cost" as when I started it there was someone talking about the cost of living crisis on the radio and it was a straight path from there.
― calzino, Monday, 23 May 2022 05:58 (two years ago) link
that's my best result in ages, recently I keep giving up.
14, same and same.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Monday, 23 May 2022 07:49 (two years ago) link
only just discovered you can make your own custom semantle...
excellent stuff
― nxd, Monday, 23 May 2022 08:14 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #114 in 52 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 15.38. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 10.17.
would have got this a lot sooner if I hadn't gone down the wrong route of plant
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 23 May 2022 09:04 (two years ago) link
Wow!I solved Semantle #114 in 10 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.68. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 11.69. 8th guess of 'manager' was crucial here.
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 23 May 2022 11:43 (two years ago) link
Got #115 in 159, but I took a couple of hints so that's cheating. Non-Americans may have an issue with this one...
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 00:42 (two years ago) link
#115 in 14, oddly got there from waffle
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 00:57 (two years ago) link
38, non-american here but am familiar with the term. got green on my first guess with logic, took a detour through maths and related concepts, then puzzles - got ???? for sudoko - then tried chess.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 08:49 (two years ago) link
I'm sure it was inevitable, but I had been enjoying the ad free experience.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:46 (two years ago) link
Also "tepid" now too?
The appearance of the field to post your guesses in has changed too. And it seems it takes two clicks on the button to get your guess to register.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 18:38 (two years ago) link
don't mean to blow up his spot but david sold semantle and is exploring the idea of becoming a full-time game developer.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 22:29 (two years ago) link
wow congrats to him
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 22:31 (two years ago) link
Good on him! He created a great game, might as well reap some rewards.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 22:34 (two years ago) link
ah good for him :)
― nxd, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:16 (two years ago) link
nice, congrats david!
― Roz, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 01:15 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #116 in 266 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.81. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #79. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 7.92.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 06:37 (two years ago) link
64… prob should’ve gotten it earlier though considering I had 995/1000 at guess #22
― Roz, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 09:11 (two years ago) link
60 - got into the greens early, had #992 at 38 but had to zoom out a bit to get there.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 09:19 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #116 in 108 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.72. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 29.06 (913/1000). Also got into the greens early, a lot of them to do with sight and seeing
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 13:25 (two years ago) link
Was stuck in synonym hell today.
But I got there!I solved Semantle #117 in 151 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.60. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #43. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 41.52 (934/1000).
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 26 May 2022 09:11 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #118 in 314 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.78. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #40. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 14.70.
needed three hints, including one at #995
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 27 May 2022 13:16 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #119 in 23 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 17.02. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3: ”city” (433) >> “mayor” (#8/810) >> “election” (#15/990)
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Saturday, 28 May 2022 08:58 (two years ago) link
6 guesses! best in a while, third guess was “politics”
― Roz, Saturday, 28 May 2022 13:14 (two years ago) link
Today's defeated me but I got the Junior one in 18 ;)
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 28 May 2022 13:46 (two years ago) link
got today's and Thursday's in 85 & 98, gave up on yesterday's after 100 guesses, though it was easily gettable.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Saturday, 28 May 2022 14:28 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #119 in 25 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 31.86 (831/1000). My penultimate guess had a similarity of 24.73 (356/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 28 May 2022 21:54 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #120 in 51 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.50. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #48. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 27.45. https://semantle.com/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 29 May 2022 02:34 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #120 in 28 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.31. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 37.06 (310/1000).
― Roz, Sunday, 29 May 2022 05:44 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #120 in 9 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 22.65. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 32.93.
luckily art is one of my starter words, it was a short hop from there.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 29 May 2022 07:45 (two years ago) link
solved it in 7, but that’s because I read anagram’s hidden text by mistake
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Sunday, 29 May 2022 09:35 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #120 in 32 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.39. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #15. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 61.72 (981/1000).
― Grandpont Genie, Sunday, 29 May 2022 21:25 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #121 in 171 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.05. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 8.68. https://semantle.com/
Bit painful this one.
― Roz, Monday, 30 May 2022 03:28 (two years ago) link
wow! I solved Semantle #122 in 16 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.62. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 55.30 (998/1000). I just ran the first song title that came to mind through the word grinder after the first few failed guesses; it happened to be “I Want To Know What Love Is” - and the rest is history!
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 18:47 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #123 in 31 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -2.86. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 50.14 (992/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 07:58 (two years ago) link
I got yesterday's in 44 even though love was my first guess. today's in 19! seemed like it was something physical not abstract so i basically went house, brick, stone, build... bingo!
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 11:59 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #123 in 6 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 20.91. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 50.14 (992/1000). https://semantle.com/
2nd pb!
― nxd, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 15:45 (two years ago) link
my pb wont be bettered unfortunately as the answer was my starting word lol
looks like for some reason they've changed it halfway through the day?
"We changed Puzzle #123 after it went live. Thus, you might have had a different word than someone else, and some similarity scores might be intermingled. Our apologies. This should not happen again!"
― nxd, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 15:47 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #123 in 55 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -2.89. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #17. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 29.62 (600/1000). https://semantle.com/
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 15:54 (two years ago) link
yeah, it was originally 'rifle' but that got pulled after like an hour when people pointed out the sensitivityxp
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:16 (two years ago) link
Got it in 38 after hitting a 993/1000 word somewhat randomly.
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:49 (two years ago) link
Got #124 in 61 guesses. I knew it was some sort of receptacle from guess 10 or so, but then took another 40 guesses to nail it.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 2 June 2022 05:44 (two years ago) link
three good days in a row (28, 17, 35) - feels weird, like I’m not playing semantle unless I’m busy yelling at my phone after 100 cold guesses
― Roz, Thursday, 2 June 2022 11:52 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #124 in 24 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 31.58 (628/1000). My penultimate guess had a similarity of 23.49.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 2 June 2022 11:58 (two years ago) link
#123 in 18 guesses word was related to my job
#124 in 78 guesses guessed a lot of words related to domesticity and water, because those are related to my job
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:46 (two years ago) link
I'll be interested to see if anyone gets #125 without any hints, because I certainly couldn't have (125 guesses, but with 2 hints so cheating).
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 3 June 2022 01:07 (two years ago) link
lol I gave up… nature is healing etc
― Roz, Friday, 3 June 2022 02:37 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #125 in 82 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.62. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #44. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 54.24 (998/1000).
no hints used, realised what kind of word we were looking for when I got "you" at #65 but it still took me another 17 guesses to land on the right word.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 3 June 2022 07:52 (two years ago) link
I got it in 124, had #980 'like' at guess 2 but that wasn't much help - by about guess 50 and 20 random greens I figured it wasn't yer typical verb/noun/adjective, and even started guessing pronouns but 'like' remained stubbornly at the top and 'mine' wasn't even green - because of the other meaning I suppose - so I didn't go through them all straight away.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Friday, 3 June 2022 08:13 (two years ago) link
plenty of high greens here, can't seem to crack post 950 though
― nxd, Friday, 3 June 2022 16:24 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #126 in 8 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 41.61 (856/1000). My penultimate guess had a similarity of 26.49. https://semantle.com/
quick one again. first guess was champagne
― Roz, Saturday, 4 June 2022 01:01 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #126 in 41 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.12. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #25. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 53.62 (995/1000).
― Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 4 June 2022 08:47 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #126 in 27 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 23.06. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #23. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 37.71 (616/1000).
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 4 June 2022 09:18 (two years ago) link
Trying to establish a good set of first guesses, at the moment I'm going for things like water, earth, art, move
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 4 June 2022 09:21 (two years ago) link
My opening moves vary but are usually something like car, city, person, strategy, happy, military, politics, ball... with the idea of nailing down early what part of speech, whether we're talking about something abstract or concrete, and covering some of the obvious domains. Doesn't always work, but today's was relatively straightforward, got it on 38
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 4 June 2022 09:45 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #127 in 93 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.84. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #82. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 37.67 (893/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 5 June 2022 06:49 (two years ago) link
took me ages to get into the greens today but once I had this was straightforward
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 5 June 2022 06:50 (two years ago) link
Other way round for me, Joni M. Lots of greens to do with touching, tickling, etc, before I got it.
I solved Semantle #127 in 81 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.80. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #27. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 17.36.
― Grandpont Genie, Sunday, 5 June 2022 07:48 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #127 in 88 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.17. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 54.31 (990/1000). https://semantle.com/
Got a bit sidetracked with cooking terms for a while as my first few greens were burn, overcook, overdo and skewer
― Roz, Sunday, 5 June 2022 09:44 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #127 in 59 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 14.30. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #52. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 8.97.
Starting to get back into it after I shared with a friend who's keen! Got lucky with this one, no clue taken.
― Keep the Aspidistra TikToking (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 5 June 2022 10:53 (two years ago) link
Got it in 102 but I did get a cheating hint, which was interesting in itself: it was 'piss', which at least put me in the direction of a bodily function and I got it soon after
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 5 June 2022 11:08 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #127 in 39 guesses. Got there via “thought”>”think” into “ponder” (first green at #13) and “ruminate” (926 at #24). Stayed on the figurative track instead of going straight for the bodily/physical, but that brought me the solution anyway.
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Sunday, 5 June 2022 14:49 (two years ago) link
56: once I got green with eat I got it in four. yesterday's: can I think of a material which isn't plastic or wood or metal and might be used in construction? apparently not! Well I guess there were a lot of distractions that day.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Sunday, 5 June 2022 15:31 (two years ago) link
Got #128 in 21 guesses - I think the first time I've got in the green with my first guess which was 'car'. Then 'passenger' in the 900s and I got it soon after.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 6 June 2022 00:07 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #128 in 25 guesses. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11, with “job” (341), after “work” at #10 had scored -0.84 - ah, those adorable “quirks” of Semantle! “office” and “chair” took me where I needed to be.
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Monday, 6 June 2022 14:31 (two years ago) link
Man, I am struggling with #128 for some reason. 150 guesses and only two very, very low greens which haven't proved helpful thus far.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 June 2022 15:08 (two years ago) link
yeah i had to get hints for this one, some of which were not at all useful.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Monday, 6 June 2022 15:09 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #128 in 243 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.09. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #112. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 24.85 (643/1000). https://semantle.com/
Yeah, that was ugly and required two hints. Got lost in a major detour when "purse" and "briefcase" got me relatively high greens and went down that path far too long.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 June 2022 15:22 (two years ago) link
Got it in 150. My stupid detour was incumbent, candidate, reelection stuff, which did help in the end, but completely distracted me initially.
― emil.y, Monday, 6 June 2022 15:27 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #129 in 140 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.63. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #39. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 54.12 (996/1000).
Went through tons of nouns and verbs to do with water and weather before I got there!
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 08:19 (two years ago) link
109, had ice at 74 so a bit slow here too.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 12:39 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #131 in 150 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.33. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #100. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.45.
another nightmare, didn't even get into the green until #100
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 9 June 2022 07:43 (two years ago) link
103. Took me ages to get green too but once I did, it was relatively quick
― Roz, Thursday, 9 June 2022 08:41 (two years ago) link
over 300 guesses yesterday and gave up after 150 today, mojo = gone. got stuck on synonyms for bizarre.
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Thursday, 9 June 2022 13:22 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #136 in 91 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 14.85. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #37. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 41.81 (989/1000). https://semantle.com/
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 14 June 2022 14:25 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #137 in 41 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -4.45. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 16.07. https://semantle.com/
― Roz, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 09:37 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #138 in 62 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.14. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 28.90. Pretty good given all the ways this could've potentially gone given my early greens.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 16 June 2022 06:48 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #140 in 116 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.99. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 45.40 (971/1000). https://semantle.com/
Wall of greens: hit almost every word in the 980s and 990s before I finally got it
― Roz, Saturday, 18 June 2022 07:12 (two years ago) link
WTF is going on with today's semantle? I'm on 400 guesses, still refusing to give up, but it seems to be all over the place.
― emil.y, Sunday, 19 June 2022 19:27 (two years ago) link
I gave up after 11 hints which took me right to the top. Would still never have got it.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 19 June 2022 21:19 (two years ago) link
I gave up too despite getting 989 and 990 (and 995 after two hints). I doubt I would’ve gotten it either.
― Roz, Sunday, 19 June 2022 23:49 (two years ago) link
Just had a look, very odd, it's like the neural net had a brainfart.
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Monday, 20 June 2022 08:34 (two years ago) link
Worst thing is I was actually closer to it before I resorted to hints. I had like and had even tried akin at one point, but they weren't notably high - they definitely made a lot more sense given the answer than clamored and spellbind, though, which completely threw me for a loop. Gave up at over 700 guesses and around 4 hints.
― emil.y, Monday, 20 June 2022 14:32 (two years ago) link
i was talking with Dave about Semantle lately and it turns out that when he originally shared the game with me, he didn't intend for me to share it with anyone else but it didn't occur to him to mention that. When I shared it here, this became the accidental beta audience. Its popularity apparently blossomed from this post. Good job everyone!
I've been test driving Dave's new game and he's been pretty explicit about not sharing it this time! Once it's ready to beta, I will ask if we can give it a go here. I can say that it is less abstruse than Semantle but is equally frustrating, at least in its current format.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 21 June 2022 06:42 (two years ago) link
I tried the app on my phone this morning and immediately uninstalled it. It looks like shit, they've tinkered with it and it doesn't accept UK spellings like "organisation" etc.. The original format was quite perfect and didn't need any improvements.
― calzino, Tuesday, 21 June 2022 08:15 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #144 in 68 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.65. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 29.96.
Rare for me to get it in less than 100 guesses these days
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 12:31 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #151 in 34 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.44. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #25. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 40.64 (374/1000).
not a bad run today, hit an early green with atom and it was a short hop from there.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 29 June 2022 09:10 (two years ago) link
Mine was a very slow progression from child - angelic - heavenly - planetary - cosmic - gravitational - FOUND! and as you could imagine, a LOT of wrong guesses in between. But I liked the journey there, got it in 112.
― Roz, Wednesday, 29 June 2022 13:07 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #152 in 49 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 21.90 (336/1000). My penultimate guess had a similarity of 18.04.
my first guess was a green, think that's the first time that's ever happened to me (except for puzzle #100 when I guessed "hundred")
#teamsemantle
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 30 June 2022 09:46 (two years ago) link
I got in 33 this morning, first one I've cracked in ages because I keep giving up after 40. I opened with circular which was low but a decent enough start.
― calzino, Friday, 1 July 2022 14:20 (two years ago) link
I rarely get any green before 50 or even 100 these days and yep I usually give up before then. got today's in 65 though - first green at 60.
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Friday, 1 July 2022 14:22 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #155 in 16 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 14.54. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 18.19.
that was the easiest one I've ever done, it helps getting 952/1000 on your 2nd guess though.
― calzino, Sunday, 3 July 2022 08:37 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #155 in 47 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.79. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 75.83 (999/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 3 July 2022 19:21 (two years ago) link
I still play daily but I do feel like I've been on a streak of playing poorly, not getting stuff until the multiple hundreds. Today was 81, kind of a middling show. I figured out the type of word it wanted quite quickly, just took me ages to hit on the right one.
― emil.y, Sunday, 3 July 2022 19:26 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #157 in 23 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.74. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #22. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 60.26 (991/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 07:42 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #161 in 39 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.01. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 32.10 (886/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 9 July 2022 13:14 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #164 in 135 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.17. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #54. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 48.54 (955/1000).
Got on the wrong track early on so it took me a while, but it helps if you were paying attention to the news today
― Roz, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 05:34 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #164 in 88 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.52. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #15. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 44.69 (912/1000).
That's a bit spoiler-y Roz. I was going to say I wonder if the choice of word was influenced by the news.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 08:19 (two years ago) link
What the fuck?I saw this thread on Site New Answers. Thought 'hey, I haven't done semantle in a while, let's give it a go.
I GOT IT IN ONE
I mean, kind of obvious why I guessed what I did, but....!
― kinder, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 21:39 (two years ago) link
haha I'm kicking myself for not guessing it sooner, but I got sidetracked by chasing down a rabbithole of sailing related terms
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 21:49 (two years ago) link
Got the Wordle in one a few days ago too, when it was FIELD<pulls tshirt over head, runs laps of the living room>
― kinder, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 21:57 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #165 in 33 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 20.41 (74/1000). My penultimate guess had a similarity of 65.49 (999/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 09:10 (two years ago) link
I got it in 1 tho! forks, you can tell Dave to send my prize now!
― kinder, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 10:03 (two years ago) link
The site appears to be down.Or has it moved?
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 13:09 (two years ago) link
yeah, semantle.com
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 13:15 (two years ago) link
Cheers, ledge!Got it eventually...
I solved Semantle #165 in 212 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.43. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #9. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 2.40.
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 18:56 (two years ago) link
Recently I have got a lot better at cryptic crosswords, yet, seemingly, I am no better at this :-/
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 18:58 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #166 in 118 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.21. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #32. My penultimate guess had a similarity of -0.65.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 14 July 2022 07:58 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #166 in 60 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.28. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 18.26.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 14 July 2022 08:25 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #169 in 134 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 30.58. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 11.40.
today's was food-related, with all the frustration that entails. It wasn't actually *a* food though, which I thought it was for ages.
― Grandpont Genie, Sunday, 17 July 2022 09:47 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #169 in 54 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 18.82. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 43.83.
I got 998 on guess 15, and then of course I guessed everything else BUT the target word :/
― Roz, Sunday, 17 July 2022 10:48 (two years ago) link
Best one in a *long* while. if it wasn't for the heat I wouldn't be awake now to trawl through it!
I solved Semantle #171 in 34 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 20.90. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 16.70.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 19 July 2022 03:36 (two years ago) link
Semantle fans, thanks for all of your support. Thanks to you, I was able to sell Semantle and try out a new career as an indie game developer. My next game is out now!
It's called Surfwords. Like Semantle, it's a very difficult word game. Unlike Semantle, it's played in realtime, and you'll be lucky to last thirty seconds.
I think you'll find it less frustrating (or at least differently frustrating) than Semantle: the word lists are carefully curated, and the game tries really hard to give you words that you will know -- but is willing to accept more obscure words if you enter them.
It's available now on iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux: https://surfwords.com/.
― David Turner (semantle), Tuesday, 9 August 2022 16:41 (two years ago) link
Great to hear buddy
will try this out later
― nxd, Tuesday, 9 August 2022 17:08 (two years ago) link
I've beta tested Surfwords a lot and David's not kidding about it being challenging.
I daresay anyone with solid scrabble dictionary tastes is going to find this to be their cuppa tea. Try it a bit slowed down to start and see if you can get up to speed. I never could!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 August 2022 17:42 (two years ago) link
A key thought going into playing Surfwords is that Dave was inspired by Super Hexagon and wanted to keep the same twitchy gameplay but have it activate your vocabulary centers.
Separate conversation that I'm curious about the board's opinion on: Dave is selling Surfwords for $5. Considering that money goes to the one-man programming team, does that seem like a reasonable price? Who here still buys games a la carte on the Apple/Android store?
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 August 2022 17:54 (two years ago) link
Anyone still playing?
I solved Semantle #199 in 40 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -3.91. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #31. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 28.37 (714/1000).
Better than yesterday's, when I had political in my first ten guesses but didn't think to try party for another 200 guesses or so.
Tried Surfwords, didn't like it. Sorry.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 09:49 (two years ago) link
Thanks for the reminder! Haven't played in ages, having a full-time job now is probably the reason,but seem to have hit the ground running....
I solved Semantle #199 in 15 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.24. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #9. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 49.99 (999/1000).
The $5 price tag, peanuts as it is, and totally needed to support the developer, does put me off trying Surfwords, esp as it appears not to be ti many people's taste so far.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 11:20 (two years ago) link
Bit more of a struggle today. One of those where I had early greens, then drifted away from it:I solved Semantle #200 in 117 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 22.41. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 21.00.
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 05:26 (two years ago) link
chicken not being anywhere in the top 1000 for today’s feels like a mistake lol
― Roz, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link
I got it in 20 today which is good for me. Lately I've been resorting to hints once I pass 200 guesses which happens frustratingly often. Thought yesterday's was really hard.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
I solved Semantle #255 in 171 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.88. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 55.68 (941/1000).
really weird one today
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
I solved Semantle #259 in 26 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 19.38. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #26. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 17.27. first one in a while. don’t think I ever guessed the word without having a green first. went from “flower” to “fresh” and “clean” (both with 23. similarity) to bingo
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 15 October 2022 14:41 (one year ago) link
better than me, took me 116. rarely takes me less than 200 guesses these days. yesterday I had "convince" early on but didn't try "convinced" for another 200 guesses.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Saturday, 15 October 2022 19:08 (one year ago) link
I solved Semantle #260 in 8 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 14.06. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 51.46 (984/1000).
― anvil, Sunday, 16 October 2022 04:24 (one year ago) link
I also played yesterday but didn't get a word higher than 40.00 in maybe 70 words. Didn't realize it would change before you finish
― anvil, Sunday, 16 October 2022 04:26 (one year ago) link
After Semantle, I quit my job to make games full-ish time. My latest is called Deco Deck, and it's a logic puzzle like Two Not Touch. If you like that sort of thing, you'll probably like this one. Give it a try -- it's available for iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, and Mac.
― David Turner (semantle), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 14:40 (one year ago) link
I will give that a try, my kakuro addiction is boring me to death and I need something new!
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 14:44 (one year ago) link
I tried it, pretty neat - looks good and it's certainly challenging, the mini was easy but I needed hints for the large after playing for nearly an hour!one thing I'm curious about for games like this with a single unique solution - how do you generate the games? I presume there's an algorithm but I wouldn't know how to begin to design one.
― ledge, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 19:23 (one year ago) link