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Anybody else playing this? I am having the worst time getting a handle on how it works. Even after knowing the answers, I look at my guesses and cannot fathom how one was closer than the other.

Anybody have insight as to how this game defines “closeness”?

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So, here’s an example from today’s puzzle. The answer was gopher.

I began with “thing” which was relatively low, and then went to “object” which scored closer than “animal” on this list. I just don’t see how the darn thing defines “close.”

animal#18465

plunger :fire:#131

rubber#1104

thing#1695

eraser#2695

ball#2706

stopper#2852

plastic#3685

glass#3956

hard#4881

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I don’t know about that puzzle specifically, but it seems to be like Semantle. That uses an AI concept for determining semantic similarity called word2vec. So it’s not so much about strict conceptual similarity as it is “what words might be found in similar contexts” across a large number of texts.