# "Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 1)

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**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:** [March 29, 2022, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/2536 "2022-03-29T01:37:00Z")

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So I’ve been trying, and finally solved, a game called semantle that gives you as many tries as you want to find a word based on its semantic connection to other words.

Here’s a description of it. I don’t think I recommend it, but I enjoyed it.

> **[Meet Semantle — this Wordle alternative is impossibly hard](https://www.tomsguide.com/news/this-wordle-alternative-is-impossibly-hard)**
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> Semantle has you guessing the mystery word via semantic similarity, rather than spelling

> I solved Semantle #59 in 80 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.93. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #26. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 15.64. [https://semantle.novalis.org/](https://semantle.novalis.org/)

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