Semantle: Can you think like a computer?

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

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 #24
My 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!

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/

lol the share c&p called this game 53 but really it was 56

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

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/

I’ve got 990, 995 and 998 but I’m struggling to make the breakthrough.

^^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

Gave up too, doubt if I was going to get it very quickly.

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.

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?

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/

Bizzare list of closest words.

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.

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.

Haha same.

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.

Are pimantles just old semantles with the added visual element, or are they their own puzzles?

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.

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/

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

Finally got it after TONS of greens. Thanks to Roz's tip!

On to #57, and I have 990, 993, 994, 996, 997 and 998, plus a zillion other greens. Fuck this game!

OK, finally got it in 61 guesses, having first hit the high greens at guess 9

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!

I do appreciate a reason to try vomitous and stank, though.

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/

got this one in 29, thanks to guessing antonyms.

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

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

Ok got it in 169 but ugh

151 for me - which sounds terrible but I have given up on the last two!

#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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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"

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.

Wow, that took ages. Tons of greens (all the awful synonyms). 996/1000 was the tipoff for me.

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!

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.

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/

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

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

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

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!"

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.

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.