Semantle: Can you think like a computer?

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.

some of my favourites from the top 1000: gigant, grough, snottily, whorehouse, podunk, kurus, booboisie

Haha

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.

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/

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!

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.

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).

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.

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

Got it in 32. My first guess was in the green, which I don't think has happened before.

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.

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'.

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

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.

good call about antonyms gg, though that was not my explicit thinking.

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.

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.

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?

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/

lots of red herrings today, fun
106 in the end

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!

Did in 78 guesses. A bit of a slog though, as I hit a green in the 700s on my second guess.

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

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.

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

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.

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).

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.