Semantle: Can you think like a computer?

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.

Yesterday I got close with “beak” but then didn’t get a chance to finish. Not sure “tail” ever would have occurred to me.

David I'm curious what you're doing to try to remove stupidly hard words?

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.

I cheated. The word is a (an) adjective while most of the words I found near it were conjunctions or adverbs, i think.

I gave up based on this thread, but probably shouldn’t have. I was closer than I thought.

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?

Kim, same here.

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.

xp to kinder, i was wondering the same - it is not an uncommon word by any means.

I had subsequent and second in my top three, so it might have happened!

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.

Incidentally, I likewise had those ones.

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.

I'm scoring just under 30 and my top 4 words don't have anything in common with each other.

This better be hilarious.

Got it in 134 guesses :)

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

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