funny how everyone today is grumbling about the disproportionately big sports bias in the target words
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 18:00 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #45 in 147 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.85. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #65. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 27.53 (711/1000).
so many contexts to today's word, so not surprised it took me a while. My 1st green was 'pond', and rather than think "they are often round" I reeled off a list of things found in parks and gardens and finally hit on 'pyramid' which led me on to the various shapes.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 19:23 (two years ago) link
before i started guessing words related to sports i had gotten sky, blue and field so i had a bunch of guesses related to painting then i started on parks/outdoor recreation areas
― sarahell, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 19:51 (two years ago) link
Having failed miserably on the last one, I got #46 in a mere 17 guesses, having hit a high green on my third guess. Having looked at the list of greens, I think most people are going to find this one easier than yesterday's
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 00:08 (two years ago) link
omg
199 guesses
The big key guesses, in order of closeness, were: monologue -> harmony -> descant (?!) -> chorus -> prayer -> samsara (?! I get it now) and then it was about a hundred random dead-ends before pyramid got me on the right track
― flow, my crimson tears (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 00:25 (two years ago) link
Holy crap I just guessed it in 5!
Guess #2 was time, guess #4 was space, and then I got it.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 00:30 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 45 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 17.53. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 56.85 (998/1000).
I went through a stage of thinking why is North scoring higher than S + E + W and remembered junior school geography: Never Eat Shredded Wheat.
― calzino, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 01:49 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 43 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.47. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 42.96 (965/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
I had to get less specific instead of more in the end.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 01:52 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 34 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.98. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 14.30.
Average guesses across all games: 195.70Down from 250 at #38
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 02:01 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 68 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 15.14. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6 urban. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 56.85 (998/1000).
ty ilx
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 02:06 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 115 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.80. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 16.83. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Phew, not as grim as yesterday but still slow going - albeit I did always feel like I was getting closer. Need to practice my leaps of intuition!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 02:37 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 157 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.41. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 24.14.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 08:12 (two years ago) link
my first guess was green! I solved Semantle #46 in 22 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 28.99 (585/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 17.30. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― kinder, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 09:25 (two years ago) link
Weird one - needed only two greens.
I solved Semantle #46 in 42 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.58. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #31. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 3.99. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― Roz, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 09:35 (two years ago) link
Well whaddya know.
I solved Semantle #46 in 4 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.19. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 9.88.
― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 09:41 (two years ago) link
FOUR?! I was proud of seven a couple of weeks ago!
― kinder, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 09:48 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 56 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 15.44. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 28.99 (585/1000).
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 09:52 (two years ago) link
Found it in 37, average guesses across all games:120.00.Wonder how fizzles will get on with this one... I was caught up in specifics for a while (city, suburbs, downtown) before zooming out.
― ledge, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 10:08 (two years ago) link
Four guesses is wild!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 10:18 (two years ago) link
I know, blind luck. Though I do tend to use the answer as one of my early guesses on most days, so it just happened to be the winner today.
― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 10:21 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 54 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -0.59. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 33.91 (859/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Pretty straight forward and probably lots of ways to get there.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 10:46 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 12 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.32. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 32.16 (790/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
two 4's ! wow, took me 3x as long lol
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 11:25 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 34 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 32.27 (797/1000) with “rural”. Once again, Fizzles’ rural-urban opening gambit served me well, although that super score for “rural” had me thinking I was basically there already. Good thing I reminded myself to check out “urban” as well, just to make sure.
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 13:33 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 3 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 18.51. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 28.22 (517/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
how
― von kelson, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 13:40 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 65 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.90. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #14. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 53.97 (995/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 14:35 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 25 guesses.
These last two have been far too fast. 25 at least feels like it involved some work on my part, though, so I can be proud of it. 7 was completely random.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 14:58 (two years ago) link
The very weird close words 476-474 have given me the title of my new sexy mystery novel: Spadefoot in Cockloft
― emil.y, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 15:02 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #46 in 23 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.02. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 33.14 (828/1000).
― nxd, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 16:36 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #47 in 67 guesses. Average guesses: 90.95.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 17 March 2022 00:32 (two years ago) link
Got it in 44. Had 986/1000 on my 4th guess, but it took another 40 to get there.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 17 March 2022 00:50 (two years ago) link
currently at guess 156 with #978, #987, #988, #996 and #997 -- i am very not good at this game
― sarahell, Thursday, 17 March 2022 03:35 (two years ago) link
lol - 188 guesses and finally got #47 - it makes sense now that philosophy and rational were high in addition to the numerous synonyms
― sarahell, Thursday, 17 March 2022 03:48 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #47 in 120 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.67. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #97. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 48.97 (996/1000).
Not excelling at this game lately!
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Thursday, 17 March 2022 06:49 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #47 in 48 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.55. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16, straight in at 986 with “strategy”, and “goal” at #37 got me to 996. In conclusion, I could have gotten there a wee bit quicker than I did. But nice to have such a straightforward one.
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Thursday, 17 March 2022 06:59 (two years ago) link
zome zerious Zelda Zonk zynchronicity going on today, I zee!
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Thursday, 17 March 2022 07:02 (two years ago) link
Indeed, and I got the 996 as well!
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 17 March 2022 07:07 (two years ago) link
very much included that in my zynchronicity azzezzment
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Thursday, 17 March 2022 07:09 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #47 in 218 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.35. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #142. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 8.77.
another hard slog, I think I'm getting worse at this
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 17 March 2022 08:20 (two years ago) link
some just seem to be harder than others. after a high green at guess 10 i'm now over 200 and just plugging in words randomly.
― ledge, Thursday, 17 March 2022 09:38 (two years ago) link
going to start guessing some obscure american sports terms. jart, ganker, plex, truntle...
― ledge, Thursday, 17 March 2022 09:55 (two years ago) link
oh fuck
― ledge, Thursday, 17 March 2022 10:09 (two years ago) link
got it in 253; tenth guess was philosophy at 850, given that the subj/obj distinction is one of my perennial concerns in that area i might have fluked it a bit sooner.
― ledge, Thursday, 17 March 2022 10:15 (two years ago) link
discovered the secret: since catching covid, i've got all of these in under 60 guesses, and mostly under 40
― devvvine, Thursday, 17 March 2022 10:45 (two years ago) link
Semantle: Can you think like a covid-19?
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Thursday, 17 March 2022 11:05 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #47 in 74 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 20.22. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #27. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 32.46 (902/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Came in from view and opinion so had to flip it around a bit.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Thursday, 17 March 2022 13:06 (two years ago) link
surrendered today, had greens of 993, 996, 997 but could not crack it
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 17 March 2022 13:58 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #47 in 77 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.99. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #53. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.92 (416/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Came in from concentrate -> focus -> target, thankfully I missed any philosophy-related words or I might have been stuck guessing completely irrelevant stuff for ages.
― emil.y, Thursday, 17 March 2022 14:45 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #47 in 401 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.81. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #25. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 14.33. https://semantle.novalis.org/
That was ugly, but I didn't want to give up. And, yep, got caught in a philosophy related rabbit hole for far too long.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:27 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #47 in 79 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.96. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 46.51 (993/1000).
started this after midnight and was aimlessly going through synonyms of success. I cracked it this morning in a more computer like state of mind.
― calzino, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:29 (two years ago) link
“Synonyms of Success”, now there’s a title of a bestseller waiting to happen!
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:08 (two years ago) link