Semantle: Can you think like a computer?

I solved Semantle #19 in 33 guesses. https://semantle.novalis.org

I'm improving.

30 but could have been quicker! First green was guess 15 with drink/981 then i messed around too long with synonyms for that (verb and noun) instead of trying related concepts.

Today's, #19 - 21 guesses.
Was about to sack off this game but now I'm back in!

49. Had 997 on my 20th guess but got fed up of firing related guesses with no luck so resorted to a thesaurus.

Today's word is v close to a word that I got stuck on yesterday (but which barely had any relation to yesterday's word) so it was in my mind

This game reminds of that scene in Seinfeld where Kramer tries to guess Georges bank card password "Bosco". He straight away goes in for the food area and quickly hones in on chocolate. Then chases George out the apartment yelling all the wrong chocolate products.

Gave up on 200, got within 178 early on but every other guess was cold.

Got it in 60 with only one guess in the 900s. I've been too focused the last few days on related words (synonyms) instead of the underlying process, so that change helped.

yeah I got super caught up on a specific vector of do - manage - require etc

Got this one in 19, but very lucky again

In 16 rather. I had a bunch of cold guesses (26 was the highest) and then I randomly hit on a super close word that made it easy.

Sigh. I just spoiled today's puzzle (#19) for myself because I un-hid Neando's post thinking it was about yesterday's. Using the puzzle number is more useful than I had realized because it changes in the evening during prime "working on stuff" time.

The page also shows yesterdays word, so be weary of that too

But you can't play previous days' games.

I think someone upthread said they'd found a way of doing it

or i'm telling big fat fibs

Oh maybe you can do it by changing the system clock idk

oh that could have been it, I guess they wouldn't see the new page with the answer then

Yeah, if you leave the tab open, it's still operational the next day.

212 today. Got to 997/1000 very early, pretty much at random, but was struggling for a bit to nail it.

#19 took me 193. I genuinely thought I was going to get a really low score, but it turned out my green guesses were related to creation (PRODUCE, DISTRIBUTE, SYNTHESIZE, GENERATE), when I needed things more related to destruction (DIGEST, EAT). The key to my turn was actually scoring high with DEFECATE, hehehe. Got it fast after that.

8th guess botches!

16 on puzzle #19!

My best yet and feels like less of a fluke than my previous best, where after getting 15-20% on "person" I typed in a random profession which turned out to be half-connected to the answer. (Even then I spent a while going through the wrong half of the concept and guessing other related professions.)

51 today

a relative saunter

This one (#20) took me 117, but the solution actually popped into my mind much earlier and then popped out again, so I convinced myself that I had already guessed it and didn't try it for ages.

#20 took me 74 - got to green relatively quickly and then spent an absolute fuckload of time (and probably 40+ attempts) racking my brain for Perry Mason words - there are an awful lot of 'em!

fuck fuck fuck.

got it in 143. but I was...once again, in the right ballpark by like 80. I went through every courtroom related word imaginable too.

I solved Semantle #20 in 117 guesses. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Guess 23 was sentence which got me to the top 10, then I futzed around trying every related word I could think of.

This was a weird one for me because I only had three guesses in the green before I solved it, but I had more than 100 completely cold guesses.

it was the opposite for me!

I solved it in 70 but 38 were green guesses - it was pretty clear what the ballpark was, just a matter of hitting the right term

ok so i have a query and maybe someone with word2vec smarts can help me out and sorry if it's totally dumb - but in #20 the trail leading to the target word was very courtroom-based, which is fine - but in this case the word itself isn't exclusively a "court" word - like, it's a word with general meaning that i guess is used most commonly in a courtroom context, esp in media - but words like "implore" and "beg" i would consider very similar in meaning, but these are way down the list - does that mean that being 'usage adjacent' is more significant to the dataset than being 'meaning adjacent'?

Mr semantle I love it. Probably too niche to look at but doesn't work on qutebrowser. Submit button doesn't seem to do anything.

does that mean that being 'usage adjacent' is more significant to the dataset than being 'meaning adjacent'?

I'm not an expert (I've taken a couple classes on computational linguistics and played around with Python NLP libraries) but word embedding (which is the essence of what Word2vec does) is about inferring semantic relationships between words based on what words they appear next to and how often in a large corpus... the algorithm correctly inferring meaning adjacency is sort of the goal.

(Semantle #20 took me... 201 guesses)

I solved Semantle #20 in 46 guesses. https://semantle.novalis.org/

Which is worse than it sounds, given that my first guess was trial. Wall of green guesses.

92 today.

so frustrated with yesterday’s: followed a hook from “lasting” through “sustainable” up to “dispose” “burn” “calories” “incinerate” which got me in the green, the last one 700 odd and then just got stuck. didn’t turn it round from waste to the consumption part.

107. I'm gradually improving at this but still haven't done it in less than a hundred ffs! But consider me addicted to the green rush!

I was sent on a red wild goose herring and did not could.

Up to 306 so far today, I suppose I've avoided the feeling of having finished wordle, quordle, semantle and worldle and having nothing left to do.

^^all that plus spelling bee and nyt crossword lol

aside from the xword and tough days on semantle, most of these take less than ten minutes each tbf

stuck around late 900s for quite a few guesses now hmmm

I got a 996 answer and still ended up giving up, after 50 more tries. Ruined my day!

ha i was at 996 too
got it in 62 in the end :)

You found it in 553!

Had mind (296) fairly early and got stuck on that for about 250 guesses, then psychiatrist (615) for another 100, then a slow crawl up from cries (702). Weird that 'cries' and 'calls' are up in the top 1000, 'cry' and 'call' aren't but the word itself is singular.

I got a 996 answer and still ended up giving up, after 50 more tries. Ruined my day!

997 but yup :(

urgh, one average green out of 100 guesses. Gave up.

Im so good at this game. I got it in 37 today after 2 green

obviously luck has a lot to do with it

you've got to be bare forensic as well, innit! I think I need to slow down and be a more selective and thoughtful with my guesses instead of rapid firing them off like a maniac.