Going to count myself lucky on this one.
I solved Semantle #92 in 70 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 15.04. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 7.65.
Semantle 92. Took me 68 and took me by surprise:
At 67, my top guesses were:
| 32 | love | 25.14 | 611/1000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 46 | like | 24.59 | 561/1000 |
| 31 | hope | 24.14 | 513/1000 |
| 63 | help | 23.19 | 370/1000 |
| 30 | faith | 22.15 | 210/1000 |
| 34 | friendship | 21.90 | 148/1000 |
My next guess was “together”, and I was a bit surprised to see the win screen.
Fun, but could’ve done better.
I solved today’s Redactle (#25) in 147 guesses with an accuracy of 57.82%.
I solved today’s Redactle (#25) in 28 guesses with an accuracy of 75.00%.
I solved Semantle #93 in 43 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.77. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #21. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 45.25 (892/1000).
Yeah, and that guess at #21 was 8 away from the target.
I solved Semantle #93 in 69 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 21.38. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 40.82 (775/1000).
Bah. Great start, terrible finish.
I noticed that Semantle will give you hints, now, so I gave it another goal. Still frustrates the heck out of me and not in a good way.
But Redactle! I’ve been loving Redactle. And since this is apparently also the Redacle thread…
What do y’all consider a ‘win’ on Redactle? There are some puzzles that are simply impossible if the correct answer isn’t floating somewhere in your mind. One of the first ones I did was Atahuallpa. I narrowed it down to the point that I knew it was the last Incan emperor, but that name simply isn’t in my lexicon. Another was exponential distribution. After lots of guesses, I’d figured out that it involved statistics and probability and even had a decent idea of what the concept was about. But short of randomly guessing the correct words, I was never going to actually solve the puzzle. Both of those required googling, but I still count it as a win. For today’s, I had to look at a map, but I knew where to look and so I count that as a win also.
A funny one was for “screw,” from a few days ago. I very early uncovered a heading with the phrase “versus natural language” and spent a ton of time in linguistics-related territory before finally veering in the right direction. I did solve that one eventually.
I solved Semantle #93 in 24 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.50. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 30.69. https://semantle.com/
Not a personal best, but close.
Re Redactle, I don’t consider googling to be out of bounds, though googling exact quotes from the article or limiting the search to wikipedia seems more of a gray area in my opinion.
Once I google I consider that abandonment, but that’s a personal preference.
193 redactle, surrendered semantle at 200. Bad day all around.
I solved Semantle #94 in 66 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.85. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #19. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 24.32 (745/1000). https://semantle.com/
Today was better, yesterday was brutal. Every once so often, I get a Semantle I just can’t get any traction on; yesterday I was a hundred guesses in and still hadn’t found green.
I solved today’s Redactle (#26) in 145 guesses with an accuracy of 68.97%.
I gave up today’s Semantle at Guess 216 after using 2 hints and my first green was guess 85.
Today will be better.
I solved today’s Redactle (#26) in 15 guesses with an accuracy of 86.67%.
That’s a personal best - my previous was Washington Post in 29 guesses.
Bah.
I solved today’s Redactle (#27) in 150 guesses with an accuracy of 41.33%.
Interestingly, I got ads today for the first time. I’ll change browsers for the next puzzle.
I solved Semantle #95 in 40 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.76. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 70.88 (999/1000).
I solved today’s Redactle (#27) in 47 guesses with an accuracy of 42.55%.
I solved Semantle #95 in 17 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.47. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 51.04 (986/1000).
This is a personal best on Semantle.
Nice semantle scores today. We are all improving.
I solved Semantle #95 in 39 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.77. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #22. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 30.65 (556/1000).
I solved Semantle #96 in 39 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 3.42. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #3. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.37.
The same count as @emulsified on the previous puzzle. 
Many versions of similar words, but I did finally get there.
I solved Semantle #96 in 40 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 29.61 (607/1000). My penultimate guess had a similarity of 86.24 (999/1000).
I solved today’s Redactle (#28) in 133 guesses with an accuracy of 31.58%.
I solved Semantle #96 in 19 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.05. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 50.01 (979/1000).
New personal best
I solved Semantle #96 in 31 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.36. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #6. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 27.70 (443/1000). https://semantle.com/
Two days in a row, it took me a long time to get the right answer because I thought I had already tried the word. I guess it’s a matter of slowing down.