Semantle: Can you think like a computer?

I solved Semantle #30 in 162 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.82. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #27. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 6.78. https://semantle.novalis.org/

hard one!

Despite hitting the green at guess 6, I'm still completely lost at guess 99.

I solved Semantle #30 in 322 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 26.76 (509/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 15.14. https://semantle.novalis.org/

my first two greens were guess #1 and guess #143

I solved Semantle #30 in 93 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.69. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #14. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 29.21 (718/1000).

I got 963/1000 at #19 and then it was a slog

Yep - 963/1000 is my top green so far, and I've tried everything and am no closer

My new rule is to give up if I haven't got it by 200 guesses, so I don't destroy the entire day with it. Accordingly, gave up on this one despite a sea of green - but I wasn't conceptually that close to getting it, highest guess was 982/1000. Tough one indeed!

I'm baffled that you're baffled! It's amazing how this game reveals the different types of semantic leaps people make. I didn't get 999 but I got a very similar one in the high 990s and then immediately guessed the answer. But then there have been games where I've had several in the high 900s and still given up.

― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 27 February 2022 07:13 (yesterday) link

Now that I know the answer I remain baffled. The 999/1000 word was “violin”. I thought for sure that meant it had to be viola or cello. From a musical perspective piano is so much further away than any number or other possible musical instruments or words.

I didn't get 'violin', but I did get 'guitar', so I just immediately thought common musical instruments. Of which, piano was the first to come to mind.

I solved Semantle #30 in 137 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.37. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #26. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 11.28. https://semantle.novalis.org/

Trickier! But not brutally unfair I don't think - again, was stuck on a certain line of thinking and had to make a little conceptual nudge sideways.

Now that I know the answer I remain baffled. The 999/1000 word was “violin”. I thought for sure that meant it had to be viola or cello. From a musical perspective piano is so much further away than any number or other possible musical instruments or words.

Yeah I was really fixated on "members of the orchestra" for this one - whereas if you're looking more broadly at "musical instruments" then it shakes loose a bit I think.

I was down to racking my brain for orchestral instruments past timpani before I took a flier on piano on that one.

not finished the last few - flailing around in the 700s/800s - pleased to get back on track.


I solved Semantle #30 in 33 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.15. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 56.11 (996/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

interesting that my penultimate guess at 996 would have probably had me giving up if i’d come at it from a different angle. not sure idve made the leap.

I solved Semantle #30 in 139 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.28. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #95. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 62.64 (997/1000).

Best ever!

I solved Semantle #30 in 39 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.03. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #22. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.94.

Jesus, totally stuck on this one. Highest is 963, I have a definite subject area my greens are all in - military shit - but not everything there hits and can't seem to find the right tangent.

I solved Semantle #30 in 613 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.90. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #85. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 17.08. https://semantle.novalis.org/

ugh well i sure made a meal of that.

The 999/1000 word was “violin”. I thought for sure that meant it had to be viola or cello. From a musical perspective piano is so much further away than any number or other possible musical instruments or words

It's not about a strictly musical perspective though. Say you're reading a magazine article about music. If the article mentions the violin, then it's more likely to also mention the piano than it is to mention either the viola or the cello.

I solved Semantle #30 in 177 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.54. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 46.44 (979/1000)

Can’t tell if I’m getting better at this or not

I solved Semantle #30 in 51 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.63. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.83.

Now that I know the answer I remain baffled. The 999/1000 word was “violin”. I thought for sure that meant it had to be viola or cello. From a musical perspective piano is so much further away than any number or other possible musical instruments or words.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, February 28, 2022 4:09 AM (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Totally same. I tried every band and orchestral instrument, musical terms, component parts like "reed" and "armature," and would never have guessed piano because I don't think of a piano as part of the orchestra (rightly or wrongly). Too much human brain!

One thing I think a lot is that often the answer is something much easier and more common/less specialist than I think it is. Except for IDEOLOGICALLY or whatever.

I solved Semantle #30 in 291 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 20.38. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #96. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.24.

High number of guesses because my first green bars were romance, fling, tryst.

I solved Semantle #30 in 172 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.69. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #163. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 17.64. https://semantle.novalis.org/

i was stuck for ages on movie, drama, bikini, watch lol how did I not get it until immediately after i got a green with secret

I solved Semantle #30 in 117 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.90. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #33. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.96. https://semantle.novalis.org/

I've found I'll quite frequently get it after a very cold guess, because at that point I'm searching around a bit more widely than just using synonyms for my top guess. Big exception was getting ideology when I knew it should be a different form of the word, that's my only jump from 999 to the correct answer I can think of. My route today was through crime and criminals, getting up to hackers and terrorists and assassins, then to the right answer.

route for me was via oft used helicopter, airplane, rocket, satellite, intelligence. if i’d hit intelligence at 997 without coming in via satellite, i would have been doing a lot of guessing in the wrong area!

Heh kinder that wasn’t my route (which was similar to emil.y’s) but I got it immediately after that last green too.

I’ve also found that I tend to waste a lot of guesses trying out different forms of a word which was very confusing today cause assassin was ranked higher than assassinating, but hoaxing was higher than hoaxer, and pretending was green but pretender was not even close to warm

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also:
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Tried it today for the first time, got it in 153. Interesting feeling to look at your old guesses and see how they're connected to the answer, especially the cold ones hovering around 25 similarity. Started to get it with "assassin" but still took me another 50 guesses to figure it out.

This was naaasty

I solved Semantle #31 in 158 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.26. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #65. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.99. https://semantle.novalis.org/

118 guesses. Not the easiest...

I solved Semantle #31 in 241 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.24. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #128. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 21.76. https://semantle.novalis.org/

rough... stuck on 997 forever

I solved Semantle #31 in 227 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.65. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #173. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 38.73 (969/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

horrible, so horrible i am ashamed to share the number of guesses it took me

guess 61 and reached a dead end at 982 - been messing about in the greens for some time now. will come back to it later.

I solved Semantle #31 in 336 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 32.01 (893/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 45.24 (986/1000).

that was a real hard slog

I solved Semantle #31 in 157 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.56. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 29.50 (819/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

Thought I was going to string it out for a lot longer. Closest for ages was 'relevant' at 907, on a whim I tried 'nice', and remembered its old fashioned meaning of 'precise/exact', which somehow led me to 'fitting/appropriate'.

34 guesses today - my best I think. Partially luck though.

spoke to soon about this getting easier, nightmare couple of days lol
168 today

I solved Semantle #31 in 90 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.12. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 31.62 (875/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

my problem is now, using the same intro words as my initial guesses has me always following the same pattern of guesses, which sometimes results in gold, but often times gets me wasting ten guesses and going down the wrong path.

I just like starting with "tree" because it's easy, but it almost always winds up an 8-10%er, then I wind up guessing "building", "house", and then sometimes that means I'm coming at it from the wrong angle.

I'm going to go random today and see how that helps.

Gave up at 186, but my best guess was so close (998/1000)!

123 for me. Wouldn't feel too bad about it but I made my boyfriend start playing and he got it in 50-something.

I do 'tree' 'woman' 'world' 'know' early on but they don't always help. Today I was channeling Borat on my 12th guess/1st green guess...

I didn't solve #31. Got to 982 or so and then got stuck.

I solved Semantle #32 in 189 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.88. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #74 (skin). My penultimate guess had a similarity of 71.74 (997/1000).

I'm still having fun with this game.

I solved Semantle #32 in 40 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.05. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #36. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 23.27. https://semantle.novalis.org/

I had fun today! But yesterday was pure suffering.

i am completely lost on today's

Got today's in 27 after just one guess in the green.

I solved Semantle #32 in 247 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.39. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #209. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 51.10 (962/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

That was painful

Did it in 17, my best ever, but it was just random luck.