Semantle: Can you think like a computer?

My highest guess beforehand kind of had two relevant meanings to it

Got there in 70.

gave up, this game is too hard for me

ok someone give me a hint > 950 (this would be a good feature to add!)

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

This game is maddening.

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.

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.

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.

first time ever getting it today after playing for about a week... in 69 guesses O_o

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 ~

139 today. early guesses in the 10s were all small things -- pea, corn, dust -- which led me astray.

johnny fever, i thought the same thing. i hit on manufacture which was one of my warmest guesses, but your word got nowhere.

I'll get as far as 30 guesses before I can't resist and give up ha.

i like the concept but the space is too vast and the goal too opaque. restricting to 5 letter nouns might help

makes me think a fun application of GPT-3 would be to play 21 questions with it

I like the idea of the long game, chipping away at it throughout random times in the day though.

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!

I still have yesterday's loaded and haven't solved it yet. Now worried about trying today's.

What's happening to the Similarity column? It's all out of order. I can't tell what's working and what's not.

I’m seeing similarity sorted properly, but with your most recent guess at the top, which is a very welcome feature!

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.

spoiler alert: the word "penis" is slightly closer than the word "university" and slightly further away than "paint."

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.

I got it in 7.

well, at least that was the point I launched my computer over the balcony and put on Peacemaker instead

86 today. I find there's a certain point when I just start entering words I know aren't going to be right.

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.

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!

Think I'm getting the hang of this, took me 80.

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.

oh sorry I get it. Most recent goes at the top no matter what but everything else sorted by similarity.

Got it in 60 - are we all getting the hang of it or was it just easier today?

136 for me, easier than yesterday but think I need more practice.

118!
Yesterday's was more 'nebulous' I think - has connotations of law, science, application... bit more straightforward word today.

Mr kinder got it in 33

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.

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...

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.

it's further complicated by the fact that, apparently, sometimes a direct synonym of one sense of the word can be cold.

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?

42 today, was in the hundreds for the last couple

Found today's in 110 after skirting around it for ages.

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.

70 today, felt like i steadily advanced on the target for oncd - previous goes have seen some pretty wild & uneven lurches towards the answer

*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.

a score of 20 I mean

oh hey cool i just started today! 206 baby. proud i didn't give up (almost did about... 180 times)

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.

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.