Semantle: Can you think like a computer?

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.

Whoa, got it in 27 today! Sheer luck that one of my first 10 words thrown at the wall hit close.

162! With the help of a thesaurus. I don’t know if I’ll ever get one of these without a crutch.

I gotta say Dave, I didn’t think this would get traction without adding a crutch but clearly it has some magnetism!

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.

lol okay I went from like 30% to 100% that was a day.

Took me 97 guesses

haha i keep giving up early, but I keep coming back to this sodding thing!

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.

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.

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.

found today’s an absolute bastard and gave up!

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.

134. Really tough going early on - think it gets easier once you get to the 900s, though not by much.

Found today's a nightmare and gave up after 248.

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.

Got up to 998 in 193 guesses, but it took me another 140 guesses to get the word from there. wtf.

131 today. Got bloody loads in the 'getting closer' range, but it took me a fair while to progress up to the final word.

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!

antonyms for my top words are still in the 900s which is puzzling me.

and synonyms are 'cold'.

OK I got it and had tried a variation of it ages ago and none of the 990+ words even mean the same thing!

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

Anyway, 188 with a gentle assist

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 full
Like nouns and verbs are probably easier

Spoilered just in case it's a clue

419 today, absolute nightmare

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.

My bad I am now at 995 but this is getting very silly.

In classic fashion my top two guesses are opposites of each other.

I solved Semantle #15 in 24 guesses. https://semantle.novalis.org/

Easiest one yet.

Got this one in 49. First one I didn’t give up on so far.

I have never yet guessed anything that wasn't a "cold"

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

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

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.

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.

stuck again, on 998, 995 and 994

after giving up on my first gl yesterday got it in 26 today.

56 for me. Best score I've had so far, but only just.

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

Just going to apologize in advance for today's. It's stupidly hard for no good reason.

128 guesses and still cold ;_;

Got to 999/1000 on turn 377 and I'm giving up for now.

I'm in the 990s...

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.

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)

I gave up and even knowing the word couldn't get something close to come up.