Semantle: Can you think like a computer?

Fuckity fucking fuck! Finally! A horrible game.

I solved Semantle #72 in 362 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.29. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #60. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 12.52. https://semantle.novalis.org/

Gave up #72, somewhere over 300 guesses. There were SO MANY cold high-20s...

I solved Semantle in 36 guesses. my first green word was fight (guess #12, 572/1000), and I continued in a combative mode for a while (with green words like "compete", "argue", "oppose, "wrestle") before hitting upon "persist" (990/1000) on my 31st guess. from there it was a fairly painless path from "continue" to "persevere" to "endure" to the secret word

*Semantle #72, that is

I solved Semantle #72 in 66 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 19.57. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #25. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 44.56 (988/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

oh fuck me wrong code sorry

Got #73 in a nice and easy 33 guesses. My route in: rural - farm - crop - wheat - wine - grape - fruit - FOUND!

I solved Semantle #73 in 110 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 15.25. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #100. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 64.10 (997/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

so many dead ends before green

110 apple 100.00 FOUND!
109 fruit 64.10 997/1000
104 lettuce 44.96 827/1000
101 vegetable 44.70 820/1000
106 kale 41.34 642/1000
107 carrot 39.26 454/1000
100 crop 38.93 414/1000
102 corn 38.27 324/1000
103 okra 34.26 (cold)
105 grain 33.34 (cold)
97 awl 31.81 (cold)
99 farmer 31.80 (cold)
35 fairy 30.03 (cold)
94 wood 28.56 (cold)
98 farm 27.51 (cold)
80 puppy 25.15 (cold)
62 fish 24.83 (cold)
81 kitten 22.41 (cold)
90 lop 21.98 (cold)
92 chef 21.69 (cold)
6 rot 21.56 (cold)
85 penis 21.15 (cold)

I solved Semantle #73 in 3 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.06. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 64.10 (997/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

OMG

Three guesses! Is fruit one of your starter words?

It would flatter my game to pretend I have anything as organised as starter words - I just blunder in and try and cast the net as widely as I can, mixing up nouns and adjectives mostly. First guess was “poor”, then “fruit” - cue near total paralysis while I consider best options for guess #3!

After playing this game for a few months now, knocking over Semantle in under a minute is definitely a “fucks with the fabric of time” experience.

amazing, emsworth.

I got it in 88 - got sidetracked a little bit by farming/grain-related guesses: my early greens were "wheat", "rye", "corn", "cereal". changed tack and went down the bakery route which let me to "dessert" and "fruit" to the target word.

I solved Semantle #73 in 55 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 11.09. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 32.21.

54 - beat you by one! Managed to work my way up fairly steadily from non-greens: animals, dairy (cheese was my first green), various foods - chocolate was high so tried other sweet things.

I solved Semantle #73 in 99 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.57. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 64.10 (997/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

Went through pretty much every vegetable I could think of, then thought laterally, entered fruit and got it in two.

At the risk of disparaging perfectly normal fruits from other parts of the world here's some fun from the top 1000: apote, etrog, boletus, pattypan, charoset, profiterole, scurf, mucilaginous, spag

mucilaginous? makes sense with okra just outside the top 100

Bit of a spoiler in your non-hidden text ledge!

argh sorry!

I solved Semantle #73 in 45 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.41. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #38. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 64.10 (997/1000).

this was a relief after yesterday's nightmare

I solved Semantle #73 in 67 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.53. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #29. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 56.08 (979/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

had 16 guesses in the 900s lol but finally got this in 116 guesses

I solved Semantle #73 in 1 guess. My first guess had a similarity of IT WAS THE RIGHT WORD. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #1. My penultimate guess had a similarity of NOTHING, BECAUSE IT ONLY TOOK ME ONE GUESS.

Sadly, it's because I thought "oh, I'd better check the semantle mod thread in case someone posted about spoilers, then I'll know to avoid the main semantle thread until I've done it myself". But the spoiler was coming from inside the thread. (Basically, ledge posted fruits and then I tried the most obvious one I could think of, and it was the right one.)

Sorry! My attempt to be helpful in the mod thread backfired. What a disaster for Semantle #73. Hopefully it's done your stats some good!

Ha, it's fine really, just a bit of an amusing accident.

Oh, and seeing as there have now been 50 games since stats started recording, anyone fancy sharing their stats? Despite the statistical outlier today, I am still on 132.74 as my average number of guesses, which I suspect is higher than most of you. However, since recording I have not given up once, nor failed to finish. I am persistent.

I'm 122 on desktop, around 115 iirc on mobile aka weekend games, I have given up a few times which obviously brings those down a bit.

I bet I'm the worst out of all of youse. 142.22

my avg is 87.58, i do give up sometimes usu after 100+ guesses

Give-ups don't affect your average, which is no. of guesses divided by no. of games played (incl. give-ups).

so if you're a giver upper you'll have a lower average than someone who hammers on beyond 400 guesses.

ah ok

average of 134.42, with three give ups

I solved Semantle #73 in 100 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.85. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #54. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 59.36 (991/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

Got stuck for a bit in a loop looking for types of cheeses when "camembert" scored as my highest green, even higher than "cheese" itself before branching out

42 today

50 games playes, 71.7 average with 2 giveups

I solved Semantle #74 in 111 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.61. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #79. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 74.55 (998/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

That was painful. I had 987/1000 at guess 6, and 998/1000 at guess 30. And yet I didn't strike FOUND until guess 77. Almost gave up there, having basically run out of synonyms.

This one clearly shows the sports bias in semantle. I mean when I think of today's word, I think more of books, songs, movies etc

I solved Semantle #74 in 96 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.04. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #19. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 42.90 (965/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

I solved Semantle #74 in 44 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.24. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.73 (248/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

got in early with "dream" (771), "dream come true" led me to "triumph." kind of surprised it ended up being such a nondescript word after landing every variation of "champion" in the 990s. i don't think i would've thought of the word without a thesaurus if i wasn't familiar with pro wrestling and vince mcmahon's obsessive rule about only referring to championship belts as "titles"

I solved Semantle #74 in 80 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.10. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #20. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 37.81 (942/1000).

After a give up and a skip, this was nice.

First game: 24
Total days played: 50
Wins: 40
Win streak: 1
Give-ups: 7
Did not finish: 3
Total guesses across all games: 9161
Average guesses across all games: 183.22

Two 500+ games and three 300+ games and, well, yeah.

I solved Semantle #74 in 105 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.52. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #36. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 30.55 (817/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

Got to #994 on guess 54 but pussy footed around before getting there. Never heard of 988 and 989 are they American usage?

I solved Semantle #74 in 110 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.97. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #17. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 8.74. https://semantle.novalis.org/

Also spent a long time in the 990s on this one.

I solved Semantle #74 in 94 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.02. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #15. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 7.69.

Hit #999 on guess #51 but took me another 43 guesses to get it. Infuriating

I got 987/1000 on guess three, 120 guesses later i now have all but three of the ten closest, including 999, and i still can't get it :/

Gave up. Ridiculous.

Ha, me too!

I solved Semantle #74 in 64 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.74. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #23. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 75.60 (999/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

I solved Semantle #74 in 41 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.76. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #19. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 60.48 (996/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/

I solved Semantle #74 in 62 guesses. Was also surprised by literature-related words not really making an appearance, I took a solely sports-based approach up to the word.

I solved Semantle #74 in 67 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.06. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #19. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 17.88. https://semantle.novalis.org/

Considering I had 999 at guess 32, that took a frustrating path to get there.