Semantle: Can you think like a computer?

76 today, fun way getting there

love the nearest word list, almost poetic

74 for me. Once I was on the right track this one wasn't too hard to get.

I'm done with this, several of my words which really should have been extremely close were nowhere near today.

what words?

done in 36 btw

I solved Semantle #24 in 35 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.91. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 12.39.

You know what? I found that much less satisfying than getting it at ~100 guesses. And also now I have nothing to do with my day, boo.

I solved Semantle #24 in 218 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 14.26. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #122. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 8.55. https://semantle.novalis.org/

Wow, that one was a struggle. Took me over 120 guesses to get into the green, another 50 guesses to get into the 900s, & a further 50 guesses to nail it. Satisfying finish, tho, enabled by a surprising intuitive leap at guess 211.

79 guesses for #24, sheer luck as I was banging in words at random.

I solved Semantle #24 in 113 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 14.26. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #46. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 20.93. https://semantle.novalis.org/

I'll take it. Once I got a sort of close guess (851) thinking laterally not literally definitely helped - this one time anyway.

lots of "most x thing in the world" in the top 1000, and one of the highest is "horniest".

did it in SEVEN today, fuck yeah

This one took me 228 guesses. I was stuck for a really long time at 977, then got one guess a few steps higher than that and immediately found the solution.

I solved Semantle #25 in 167 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.00. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #46. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 73.47 (999/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

I'm not proud but I'll take it. I think I have a new Playing Semantle at Work strategy - make a bunch of guesses, get stuck, do something else and come back to it later.

Which is probably a good Semantle strategy even without the "at work" part.

Yet again, swimming in a sea of green, well into the 900s, and yet I can't get it. Will take the above advice and take a break.

did it in SEVEN today, fuck yeah

― kinder, Tuesday, February 22, 2022 12:25 PM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i don't understand how this is even possible

i made it to 998 today and still ended up giving up

Taking a break at guess 700 today. got to 992/1000 and I'm stuck.

BTW:

The Twitterverse also likes to tweet at the Wordplay account and, in the early days of the digital game, one particularly incensed solver drove home the point that the word RAFFIA should be accepted, by mailing a package of the palm fiber ribbon to the home of crossword editor Will Shortz, to Mr. Shortz’s complete bewilderment.

This was a buddy of mine who did this! He was proud it got called out in the article.
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Friday, October 22, 2021 4:26 AM (four months ago)

I solved Semantle #25 in 46 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.61. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #40. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 34.87 (832/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

a lot of luck in this game

ugh after being so cold i tried something completely different i got 972/1000 on guess 8 and quickly got to 993/1000 on guess 10 and…. now i’m on guess 25 and stuck.

Stuck at 998 and >300 guesses. :/

I cheated. I don't think I would have got today's.

I gave up despite once again getting a couple of 990s. Think I could have got it if I'd persevered.

stuck on 997 and heading towards 200 guesses

same, but I'm on 998

998 really lulls you into a sense of false confidence, I could never get that close to the answer and think I still need to change direction. The jump from 998 to 999 makes some sort of theoretical sense I guess but all of my answers in the 990s were related to cumbersomeness or convolutedness, had to assume I just wasn't hitting the right synonym. Costliness feels like a whole different world

972 is my best so far, but unlike Fizzles I have yet to progress further from it.

plenty of time, mike. i'm still stuck on 993 despite picking it up occasionally and throwing in increasingly desperate tangents.

I gave up after being stuck at 998 for 200 guesses. Boy, my early stats are really not looking great lol

I have had a few tries at this in the last couple of weeks and have got literally nowhere (like punch in 40+ words at random and never see any green) before giving up.

Today I am closer - the thrill of seeing that green bar for the first time! - and am stalled on 987 after a miraculously low (for me) 95 goes.

I solved Semantle #25 in 197 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.00. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #99. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 21.08. https://semantle.novalis.org/

felt like finishing below 200 was an accomplishment today.

finishing that was far more satisfying than my best score of 35 the other day tbh. Mo struggle = mo fun!

133! What a boost.

I put the right answer in as part of a bunch of words chosen in exasperation with not getting anywhere with the full expectation of not getting anywhere.

My first reaction was to think I'd crashed the browser.

Got in the top 100 after 15 guesses but rage quit at 157 today

I'm at 278 and can't seem to get any closer at all, not quite at the point of rage quitting but getting close.

Gave up

Gave up at 447.

my first white flag today, got most of the closest ones leading up to 998

I'm stuck at 998, just hit 300 guesses. Going to go away for a while and do something else. I will not be defeated!

I'm stuck at 998, just hit 300 guesses. Going to go away for a while and do something else. I will not be defeated!

I'm never giving up again, play to the death every time! I took a couple of breaks from it earlier and resisted the urge to rage-quit.

i’m on guess 49 and have had seven in the 900s.

no way devilish should be 1.64 imo.

the way computers think these days, eh!

i think it was the most recent one where i typed in "world" and got a similarity of 0.00

had to ponder for a moment if this had any deeper philosophical significance and then decided it was just a bug

FUCK YOU PUZZLE #25 I BEAT YOU IN 657 GUESSES HAHAHAHA FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING FUCK

that's the spirit!

Apologies for the outburst, but I feel it was warranted.

Gave up after 200 guesses and one mid tier green. almost all of the top few hundred are adjectives and maybe I rarely guess adjectives? Either way don't think I would ever have got this.

I think I got this because all my biggest scoring greens where adjectives - I was on the hunt for one.