Semantle: Can you think like a computer?

I solved Semantle #48 in 36 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -9.42. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #14. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.42. https://semantle.novalis.org/

My wife shouted the answer to me as I was thinking out loud.

I've been on a run and I am within sight of getting my average guesses below 100.

I solved Semantle #48 in 98 guesses.
My first guess had a similarity of 3.25.
My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #71 with “work” (636/1000). *WHAT IF* I had tried that word right after “job”, my guess #7? But you know, that one scored 7.73 🤷🏻‍♂️

108 today. Not bad, but got stuck in a bit of a synonym rut again.

I solved Semantle #48 in 63 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 16.29. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 3.44. https://semantle.novalis.org/

I solved Semantle #48 in 66 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.70. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #13. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 47.89 (991/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

I solved Semantle #49 in 30 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 15.66. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #17. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 63.15 (998/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

Most straightforward for a while, for me.

I solved Semantle #49 in 30 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 15.66. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #17. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 63.15 (998/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

Most straightforward for a while, for me.

I solved Semantle #49 in 156 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 13.42. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #9 fish, 507/1000. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 8.16. https://semantle.novalis.org/

That first word in the top 1000 threw me way off. No idea how it's related.

I solved Semantle #39 in 53 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.50. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #15. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 58.75 (998/10

I did it all on my phone and it printed an old one from the clipboard

I solved Semantle #49 in 55 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.22. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #22. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 27.76. https://semantle.novalis.org/

once it seemed obviously to be cooking pan related it was a piece of piss

I solved Semantle #49 in 105 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 15.17. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #100. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 63.15 (998/1000).

Guesses 100 -- weed (964/1000) -- through 105-FOUND, were the only ones in the "green".

I solved Semantle #49 in 211 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.59. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #15. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 11.11.

I solved Semantle #49 in 252 guesses.
My first guess had a similarity of 10.46.
My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10 with “flower” and guess #11 got me as high as 657 with “garden”. Than “bulb”>”tuber”>”herb” (989! at #125!). Tried all kinds of gardening and food/cooking stuff, got lots and lots of greens (fittingly!), but was only thinking of the edibles (!) themselves and forgot about the utensils, until I tried “pan”, which turned out to be…my penultimate guess - it had a similarity of 37.06 (928/1000).

Have to say, although it was my worst score ever, I thoroughly enjoyed this one. Don’t think I’d ever gone beyond 150 guesses without giving up, but it was fun (rather than frustrating) just to keep the greens coming (I racked up 53 in the end, got me real hungry!) in the knowledge that it was probably going to be the most basic word imaginable (I had seen there were quite a number of low scores).
Seeing the list with closest words made it even more fun. To think that “rhubarb” was the closest non-drugs-related word!

Solved in 122, bit of a weird one, took me a while to get to herb, various varieties of which were all high greens, took a detour through houseplants and I could have got it from there, instead I went 'herb... cannabis!'

I solved Semantle #49 in 56 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.30. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #26. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 28.95 (230/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

I'm not sure how I got there how I did. soup was my closest and I had barely any greens.

I solved Semantle #49 in 95 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.19. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #24. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 29.36 (312/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

first green was herb & then took a while to guess marijuana & then had a real block thinking of synonyms of that lol

I solved Semantle #49 in 85 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 17.10. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #35. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 23.63. https://semantle.novalis.org/

Lol, my path was: DRUG scored high but not in the green, HERB was the first green so I thought "oh, so it's not actually drugs" and tried a bunch of actual herbs, then MARIJUANA hit super-high -> "oh shit, it *was* drugs after all" -> tried every synonym and a bunch of other drug-related terms until *finally* I came up with the right one. Was surprised it was that one as I would've thought cooking-related terms would be much higher than drug-related terms in that case.

I also really have a bad case of "think of every synonym except the right one" for all of these games.

I solved Semantle #49 in 23 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 20.78. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #20. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 26.96.

I solved Semantle #49 in 93 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.89. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #55. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 35.59 (891/1000).

Pimantel #25 was a bad and awful experience for me. my 77th guess (and first in the top thousand) was "barrel" (15/1000). by my 110th guess I'd convinced myself that the secret word must have something to do with oil, so I racked up a bunch of high ranking words like "hydrocarbon" (56/1000), "refinery" (26/1000), and "crude" (9/1000 ffs) until it occurred to me to try "barrels". I generally only go for plurals when I'm frustrated and feel like mashing some keys with little expectation off success. I think I'd prefer it if plurals were excluded from the secret word pool, though I guess that would compromise the robotic purity of the exercise

(forgot to say that I ended up solving it in 149 guesses)

i swear to god i am going to guess every single fkn green in #50 (excepting the target word, naturally)

I got in 30!

arrrrgh!

If you want a hint: think about the Ukrainians!

Thanks ZZ - I had to give up before I saw this, it was wrecking my day!

i reckon i probably got 300 greens, they were mostly vanquish/conquer/triumph kind of words - there are a lot of these, we must be a very warlike bunch - and i got a few hints of something positive/reactive - absorb, ignore - but anyway glad to be out of it, stats be damned!

I solved Semantle #50 in 58 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.09. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 34.25 (775/1000).

quite straightforward today, first green was stop and it was nearly all greens thereafter.

i swear to god i am going to guess every single fkn green in #50 (excepting the target word, naturally)

It me

I solved Semantle #50 in 26 guesses.
My first guess had a similarity of 6.32.
My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12 with “face” (388), and then “confront” (976) two guesses later.
My penultimate guess had a similarity of 24.57.

I solved Semantle #50 in 107 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -4.60. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.37.

Got in in 133 with ZZ's hint. My top three guesses were ignore, reject, and tolerate which wasn't helpful in choosing between positive, negative, and neutral reactions. Though other guesses were leaning negative.

852/1000 is a mood.

I solved Semantle #50 in 304 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.04. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #21. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 48.48 (992/1000).

Stopping at 300 guesses, and having 991, 989, and 988 as top greens (out of many), I resorted to...ILX. I did not look at Zelda's hint or at anybody's hidden text. I checked 852/1000 to see if I had guessed it, but I had not. Was "a mood" a hint, I wondered. I tried to change my mindset -- to search for a mood in the form of a verb -- and four guesses later I found it.

I solved Semantle #50 in 160 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.78. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #49. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 24.60. https://semantle.novalis.org/

So much for my under 100 streak. This one was really hard for me. I had contemplate and consider forever and just got stuck in synonym land.

256 today, first blip in a while also

lol, that took me 375. Oddly it stayed fun and not frustrating, as I meandered through a bunch of enjoyable word-chains.

69/1000 lol

Took me 378 guesses, phew.

61 guesses Languished in the low greens with plan, proposal, system etc., until I hit on school and it was pretty straightforward from there. A bit surprised my guesses book, textbook, schedule, timetable were all cold.

I solved Semantle #51 in 57 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.21. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #23. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 34.32 (730/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

I solved Semantle #51 in 40 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.91. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 31.25 (572/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

Good result for me, surprised at the word they went with this time - more unusual than most

I solved Semantle #51 in 74 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.22. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 34.03 (719/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

Just glad to be in double figures after yesterday’s personal calamity.

I solved Semantle #51 in 105 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.65. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 5.26. https://semantle.novalis.org/

Thought this was going to be a quick one after landing 966/1000 on guess #10, but nope still needed nearly 100 more after that :/ one of those days where I got a lot of green guesses but not the actual word

I solved Semantle #51 in 145 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.44. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #24. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.01.

I solved Semantle #51 in 72 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.02. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #21. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 33.43 (691/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

Quite enjoyed this one, i had a lot of greens in the same area but not leading anywhere specific so i just kept on plugging away with as many terms in the same domain i could think of

I solved Semantle #51 in 83 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -3.12. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 26.52 (99/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

I had a lot of very close greens and should have gotten it a lot earlier.

I solved Semantle #51 in 23 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 18.77. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 35.11 (765/1000).

I solved Semantle #51 in 95 guesses.

Really thought I was going to finish much faster. This was, I believe, the first game where I thought of the concept of what the target word was but couldn't actually remember the word for it - my brain helpfully proposed "oh, you know, the whole gamut of schoolwork you have to do" - thanks, brain. Could have cut off at least 40 guesses if I'd sat back and waited for the word to come to mind instead of going ahead with my rapid-fire word association.

I solved Semantle #51 in 💯 guesses.
My first guess had a similarity of 16.06.
My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11 with “religion” (606/1000), followed by “theology” (904) at guess #29. Easy to see how this would steer me off the right path. Thankfully I was enlightened just in time to bag my first century.