# I'll live to regret this, but here's the Semantle thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** board-card-word-game\ **Created:** [March 29, 2022, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-live-to-regret-this-but-heres-the-semantle-thread/961932 "2022-03-29T20:34:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-live-to-regret-this-but-heres-the-semantle-thread/961932/41 "2022-04-10T11:44:23Z")
I got today’s in 38. Afterwards, I kept guessing with words associated with synonyms of the answer, bar as a long piece of metal, instead of a tavern and they scored quite low. So that means that they are looking for a specific meaning of a word. ---
**Author:** ![emulsified](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emulsified/32/2915_2.png) [@emulsified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emulsified)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-live-to-regret-this-but-heres-the-semantle-thread/961932/42 "2022-04-10T21:03:22Z")
57 on #70 today, much better than yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-live-to-regret-this-but-heres-the-semantle-thread/961932/43 "2022-04-11T14:19:56Z")
I gave up today. What’s frustrating is that a couple of my guesses were synonyms for the answer, but scored relatively low. It put me off the track of solving it. ---
**Author:** ![emulsified](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emulsified/32/2915_2.png) [@emulsified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emulsified)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-live-to-regret-this-but-heres-the-semantle-thread/961932/44 "2022-04-11T14:46:17Z")
I gave up as well. Another one where I feel like I could’ve guessed all day and never got it. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-live-to-regret-this-but-heres-the-semantle-thread/961932/45 "2022-04-11T14:51:54Z")
Yeah, todays was disappointing. I guessed win and it was ranked pretty low. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-live-to-regret-this-but-heres-the-semantle-thread/961932/46 "2022-04-11T22:36:18Z")
My god, I swore I would always quit at 200, but I had so many in the 900s that I kept going to 229 before I got it. I had 19 other hits in the 900s! My brain hurts from trying to think of synonyms. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-live-to-regret-this-but-heres-the-semantle-thread/961932/47 "2022-04-12T12:48:46Z")
I’m so hooked on this. Todays I spent so long in the 800-900 before getting it at guess 84 ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-live-to-regret-this-but-heres-the-semantle-thread/961932/48 "2022-04-12T13:07:13Z")
Same, and I got there in 86. There were a handful of “aha!” moments, so it was much more enjoyable than yesterday. Interestingly, I tried a number of two-word common combinations that you might imagine since you know the answer, and it did score them, but instead of the green bars it gave me a bunch of question marks. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-live-to-regret-this-but-heres-the-semantle-thread/961932/49 "2022-04-12T13:49:42Z")
Yesterday was bizarre. I had one answer in the green and the got it, around 30. I was stunned. I haven’t tried any two word choices yet ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-live-to-regret-this-but-heres-the-semantle-thread/961932/50 "2022-04-12T13:59:06Z")
That was weird, my spoiler tag didn’t work, so never mind. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-live-to-regret-this-but-heres-the-semantle-thread/961932/51 "2022-04-12T15:05:36Z")
Today was more like it. Got the answer, but it was work. I’ve adopted a tiered strategy: I find a series of similar words that score well until I get to the next series of words that score higher and so on. Before, I would get hung up on whatever the highest scoring word I had found, but a lot of times, that word was still pretty removed from the actual answer. ---
**Author:** ![emulsified](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emulsified/32/2915_2.png) [@emulsified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emulsified)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-live-to-regret-this-but-heres-the-semantle-thread/961932/52 "2022-04-12T16:41:23Z")
Woohoo 53 today. Though I got 992/1000 on guess 19 and it took me that long to finish. I got stuck on a mental track. Edit: just found the share link: I solved Semantle #73 in 53 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.78. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 53.18 (967/1000). [https://semantle.novalis.org/](https://semantle.novalis.org/) ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-live-to-regret-this-but-heres-the-semantle-thread/961932/53 "2022-04-12T18:46:07Z")
I solved Semantle #73 in 84 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.87. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #39. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 48.29 (908/1000). [https://semantle.novalis.org/](https://semantle.novalis.org/) ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-live-to-regret-this-but-heres-the-semantle-thread/961932/54 "2022-04-13T12:55:11Z")
Spent a lot of time in the greens today. 77 turns ---
**Author:** ![emulsified](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emulsified/32/2915_2.png) [@emulsified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emulsified)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-live-to-regret-this-but-heres-the-semantle-thread/961932/55 "2022-04-13T13:12:15Z")
I solved Semantle #74 in 79 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.63. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #79. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 3.25. [https://semantle.novalis.org/](https://semantle.novalis.org/) Today I had nothing in the green before guessing the word. Bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-live-to-regret-this-but-heres-the-semantle-thread/961932/56 "2022-04-13T13:20:26Z")
That’s amazing. I had one day where I had one in the green (and not that high) before guessing the word, but to have no greens is quite the feat. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-live-to-regret-this-but-heres-the-semantle-thread/961932/57 "2022-04-13T14:34:39Z")
I gave up on Semantle #74 in 45 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.86. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #25. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 75.60 (999/1000). [https://semantle.novalis.org/](https://semantle.novalis.org/) And I had already used titleist which was accepted as a guess but too obscure for stats. So I gave up with champions at 999/1000. ---
**Author:** ![emulsified](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emulsified/32/2915_2.png) [@emulsified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emulsified)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-live-to-regret-this-but-heres-the-semantle-thread/961932/58 "2022-04-13T14:38:18Z")
You looked at the answer, I presume? You must’ve groaned. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-live-to-regret-this-but-heres-the-semantle-thread/961932/59 "2022-04-13T14:43:20Z")
Yes,I groaned! And griped and moaned too! ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-live-to-regret-this-but-heres-the-semantle-thread/961932/60 "2022-04-13T16:16:51Z")
What a trainwreck. My first green was on my 78th guess, and it was 176/1000. Nonetheless, if I had made the right association from that word, repeat, it would’ve helped a lot. Instead, it took me until 175! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-live-to-regret-this-but-heres-the-semantle-thread/961932.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-live-to-regret-this-but-heres-the-semantle-thread/961932.md?page=4)