Maserschmidt told us about Semantle, here. There’s more details in that post, but as an overview, Semantle is a guess-the-word game, only based on semantic similarity rather than the letters it contains (as in the case of Wordle).
So as not to hijack the Wordle thread any further, I figured I start this thread.
I got today’s word today’s word in 11. I’m going to play it over the next couple of days and see if it leads to me giving up in disgust.
The game can be found here. Anyone else want to give it a go?
From the other thread, eschrodinger, you said you had a word that got you within 17 of today’s. Just curious which word that was.
I feel like that game did something weird to my brain. I hovered around a 23 similarity for about 35 tries (with plenty of negatives in there), hit one in the top 1000, then got it on the next try at #39.
I did # 59 a few hours ago Detroit time. Got in high 40’s by 59 th guess. Trying to hurtle exceed outpace rocket (cold) then gave one up.
I don’t see my stats but already #60 is up.
I started with same. Brain hurts where is the tip list?
Just got Semantle #60. Took 80 tries, which wasn’t really an issue as I started it last night when chela pointed out that it was available, and then kept going back to it today when I needed a break from what I was actually supposed to be doing.
Really fascinating. The word is principle and and because it is polysemous (a word I just learned on the Semantle FAQ), it was quite the journey. I cycled through many senses of the word - legal and mathematical/logical - until I got there. Love this game. Really makes you think of the web of meanings a word can have.
I tried it once. I spent hours making guesses, I think over 200. I got really close but didn’t get it.
I went back the next day for the answer, and the answer was one of my early guesses. For some reason it didn’t count it. So I chased my tail for hours for nothing.
I’ve yet to solve this game. I’ve gotten the green bar within 976/1000 but remain stumped. Always surprised at the word and that the solution was not obvious to me.
I know I repeat guesses too.
It is somewhat meditative, I find my guesses often heading into space literally.
Today I started with chaste and now I’m up to miserly and have to get much much closer from there I don’t know where this one is going to end up.
After 162 guesses, I’m at 994/1000. Not at all sure how to proceed. This is my first time trying it. Are spoilered guesses okay? I’d be happy to collaborate with other folks on it.
I finally got there at 111. I find this addictive, but also frustrating; the use of many similar roots had me inputting a bunch of different word endings (see examples below in spoiler box, which does include the answer).
Still, the process of narrowing in, like a game of linguistic Battleship, is quite fun.
111
cooperation
100.00
FOUND!
105
collaboration
60.83
998/1000
94
partnership
53.41
995/1000
84
mutual
48.95
985/1000
82
agreement
44.51
970/1000
80
alliance
43.78
964/1000
100
accords
43.03
957/1000
92
accord
42.17
949/1000
106
collaborate
40.46
944/1000
83
pact
40.32
942/1000
98
partners
36.52
895/1000
95
partnering
34.52
859/1000
97
allies
33.05
823/1000
81
treaty
32.41
803/1000
102
deal
30.79
730/1000
42
support
29.50
660/1000
96
ally
29.13
632/1000
86
arrangement
28.24
558/1000
108
collaborates
26.87
454/1000
ETA though I should probably pay more attention to successful word forms (noun, verb etc) as that’s indicative I think of the final form?
