Used the same starter word as anagram to get going. Quite independently of course.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 12:44 (two years ago) link
14. woke up, listened to dizzee rascal, first guess was rascal, that got me to toddler, pretty easy from there.
― brisk money (lukas), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 17:30 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #81 in 44 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.71. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #40. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 13.01. https://semantle.novalis.org/
one green
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 00:12 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #81 in 15 guesses (can't remember if that's my best effort). My first guess ("read") had a similarity of 23.85 (754/1000). I'd feel smarter if I'd gone straight from "notebook" (guess #7, 111/1000) to "note", but "read", "book", "paper", and "page" were all (frustratingly) ranked much higher, so I didn't immediate make that leap
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 00:28 (two years ago) link
Got it in 70 - a bit flukey as I only had 2 greens. Messed around for an age with feelings/emotions, then senses and struck green with 'see', followed by 'notice' and quickly got to the answer.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 01:47 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #81 in 16 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.36. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 6.87. https://semantle.novalis.org/
lol very random, no greens and my highest guess was just 11.12 similarity. it was “money” and I was trying words related to that.
― Roz, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 03:18 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #81 in 55 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -0.81. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #45. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 2.80.only 3 greens. My breakthrough word was 'word'
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 06:43 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #81 in 45 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.57. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 13.71.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 08:30 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #81 in 155 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.51. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #22. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 1.88. https://semantle.novalis.org/
I stumbled around with a bunch of greens no higher then 878 then nailed it after some deeper consideration. Weird game.
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 13:52 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #81 in 133 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.96. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 13.89. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Spent too long getting specific, with letter as my top word, I was going deep into both the minutiae of what you need to write letters (envelope, signature etc) and more wildly stabbing at word-based things (syllable, monogram, comma etc). Fairly sure I do worse at games where the paths are close to my specialisms - see also philosophy-related words where I fritter my time away on things like poststructuralism and epistemology. Anyway once I sat back for a bit the target word was a much more obvious next step than what I was doing, eh.
After I finished, I noticed that they've put in a hint button - anyone tried that yet?
― emil.y, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 14:07 (two years ago) link
129 guesses on this one -- I was completely stuck, my wife walked by and looked at my list of green words and was like "what about [correct answer]" so there you have it
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 14:07 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #81 in 150 guesses with 1 hint. My first guess had a similarity of 12.33. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #23. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 23.04 (678/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
i tried the hint. highest word was 956 and it guessed 978 for me.
― ✖, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 23:34 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #82 in 25 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.27. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 16.43. https://semantle.novalis.org/
”money” putting me on the right path for the second day in a row. From there, I got “gift” and the solution came pretty quickly after.
― Roz, Thursday, 21 April 2022 03:10 (two years ago) link
average guesses now down to 120 yay (from 150+ earlier). Trying to get it down to under 100.
― Roz, Thursday, 21 April 2022 03:13 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #82 in 127 guesses with 1 hint. My first guess had a similarity of -1.58. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #66. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 13.20.
Tried the hint on my 115th guess.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 21 April 2022 06:09 (two years ago) link
Completely bogged down after 70 guesses and several greens, tried the hint and got it immediately after. Not sure the hint is a good development though, the occasional complete and utter frustration is an integral part of the game!
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 21 April 2022 06:50 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #82 in 15 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.15. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.64 (710/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
It is always a rush when they’re quick! Got “prize” early and then pretty straightforward from there - although sat on #998 (“donation”) for a while wondering where next - was quite surprised when I got the target word, I’m normally not so good at those little intuitive zigs and zags
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Thursday, 21 April 2022 11:00 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #82 in 110 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -1.41. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #15. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 32.49 (931/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Thursday, 21 April 2022 12:16 (two years ago) link
got it in 42 today from getting history on 6th guess. I didn't notice there was a hint button, not keen on this development at all even if some days it can be frustrating when you are 200+ and getting nowhere.
― calzino, Thursday, 21 April 2022 12:28 (two years ago) link
Gave up in the high 300s, today's was really frustrating. Probably because I got a decent green hit on work early and got stuck in multiple endless loops spinning out of that.
Fwiw, the hint was not very helpful imo.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 April 2022 15:33 (two years ago) link
spoiled today's for myself by accident so decided to check out the hints a bit more. looks like they always give you the answer halfway between your latest guess and 1000. hint with no greens it'll give you 1/1000, hint again and it'll give 500/1000, then 750/1000, etc.
― ✖, Thursday, 21 April 2022 18:20 (two years ago) link
*highest guess, not latest
got stuck on 993, was about to give up and used the hint, got it immediately and felt incredibly dirty - never again! giving up is more honourable
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Friday, 22 April 2022 06:20 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #83 in 121 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.94. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.72.
yeah I also got stuck on #993 and got it with the help of a thesaurus. no regrets.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 22 April 2022 08:12 (two years ago) link
my biggest problem with this game continues to be that I can hit on a word like assist on guess #33 but the target word never occurs to me until almost 100 guesses later even though the semantic leap from one to the other is very short
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 22 April 2022 08:16 (two years ago) link
I also tried the hint today after getting no higher than 977 for over 70 guesses :/
It gave me 988 which helped put me in the right ballpark.
― Roz, Friday, 22 April 2022 08:51 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #83 in 27 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.46. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.13. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― johnny crunch, Friday, 22 April 2022 10:43 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #83 in 16 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.64. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 14.38. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― nxd, Friday, 22 April 2022 15:47 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #83 in 57 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.07. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #10. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.15. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Friday, 22 April 2022 16:58 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #83 in 18 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 14.02. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 11.67. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― ledge, Friday, 22 April 2022 19:27 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #84 in 116 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.55. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 31.61 (906/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
This was brutal today, 994 on guess 17 and 996 on 28 but still took me another 88 guesses before I got it.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 23 April 2022 10:17 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #84 in 123 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -9.18. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #48. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 24.34 (253/1000).
Yes, today's was horrible. Lots of guesses connected with hitting, throwing and squeezing before I got there, and I am sure many who got there quicker would have done so via other routes.
― Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 23 April 2022 11:45 (two years ago) link
Also took me 123. Didn't feel like it was too brutal, tbh, just took throwing a lot of words at it.
― emil.y, Saturday, 23 April 2022 13:06 (two years ago) link
stuck on 991 with 193 guesses, having a mare today.
― calzino, Saturday, 23 April 2022 13:18 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #84 in 111 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.23. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 34.39 (950/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
Deceptively difficult!
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Saturday, 23 April 2022 13:22 (two years ago) link
took a couple of days off, back on my bullshit
I solved Semantle #85 in 46 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 14.89. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #14. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 10.49. https://semantle.novalis.org/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 24 April 2022 00:19 (two years ago) link
75 but needed a hint. :/
― Roz, Sunday, 24 April 2022 05:18 (two years ago) link
got it in 6! set < group < join > mix < assemble, bingo
― ledge, Sunday, 24 April 2022 08:34 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #85 in 39 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.40. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #19. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 31.44 (832/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 24 April 2022 10:16 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #85 in 28 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.77. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #11. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 19.43.
yesterday's took me 205, but I got forge early today and it was quite a straightforward path to the answer.
― calzino, Sunday, 24 April 2022 10:19 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #85 in 28 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.37. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #8. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 11.05. https://semantle.novalis.org/
Easiest one for me in a while, which was nice.
― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Sunday, 24 April 2022 16:27 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #85 in 65 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.83. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #19. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 17.63. https://semantle.novalis.org/
first green was "sit" at 923 which was unfortunate, dawdled around for too long with that before prepare > organize (989) and then took way too long to get the answer from there
― ✖, Sunday, 24 April 2022 19:34 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #86 in 54 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.26. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #36. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 29.35 (518/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
A relatively painless one, for once.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Monday, 25 April 2022 00:40 (two years ago) link
70. Got sidetracked a little bit by guesses related to extreme sports (bungee, skydiver, paraglider etc), but getting "rock" put me back on track
― Roz, Monday, 25 April 2022 01:23 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #86 in 88 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.32. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 23.51. https://semantle.novalis.org/
got stuck on bodies of water...the rivers and the lakes that i'm used to
― ✖, Monday, 25 April 2022 01:41 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #86 in 31 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.81. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 52.95 (995/1000). https://semantle.novalis.org/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 25 April 2022 01:43 (two years ago) link
Got tower at 4, that lead to a bunch of castle/fortress/roof/etc. stuff
Gave up today after 96 guesses.Was never going to get it. Got fixated on words relating to sleep and the end of the day having had a reasonably high Green- bed - on guess 4.
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 25 April 2022 07:54 (two years ago) link
38, rather unexpectedly. heaven and paradise were my highest not greens so went for beach, then a few sea related words, then cave, and got it on the next guess.
― ledge, Monday, 25 April 2022 08:05 (two years ago) link
I solved Semantle #86 in 111 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.30. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #77. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 35.73 (864/1000).
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 25 April 2022 08:17 (two years ago) link