If you need a distraction from things

[ElegantlyTouched]

Try Semantle.

It's like Wordle in that you need to guess the word of the day, but works by semantics. So you input a word and it will tell you how close you are. You have infinite guesses.

For example, ysterday's word was 'costly' with expensive, cumbersome and burdensome being the three closest words.

I'm currently 840 words away with a similarity of 47%. I started at under 2%.

Anybody else attempting it?

Well that seems to have done the trick!

I solved Semantle #33 in 120 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.77. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #20. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 18.21. semantle.novalis.org/

But looking at the list, I would never have made those connections!

Can someone please PM a hint, stuck on 800 for ages!

stuck at 941
But only took 8 to get there (lucky first word)
I'll take a hint!

953....

981...

I'm getting the hang if it now...
I solved Semantle #33 in 130 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.77. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #40. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 27.53 (516/1000). semantle.novalis.org/

I solved Semantle #33 in 61 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.72. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #47. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 55.15 (996/1000). semantle.novalis.org/

Getting the hang of it, do you think, or just dunb luck, lol?

*dumb

There's a certain amount of luck - some of the quite high ranking words aren't all that obviously linked, in one or two cases more like antonyms even. (That last part doesn't apply to any of the numbers I've noticed on this thread btw)

I solved Semantle #33 in 118 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.41. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 13.20. semantle.novalis.org/

But... I cheated and ended up resorting to a thesaurus after I was stuck at similarity of 49.76 for ages and was worried I'd waste the rest of the day on it!

I solved Semantle #33 in 41 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 45.39 (987/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 3.88. semantle.novalis.org/

I solved Semantle #33 in 137 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.77. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #50. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.35 (63/1000). semantle.novalis.org/

I got there in the end.

I solved Semantle #33 in 81 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 19.36. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #7. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 46.28 (989/1000). semantle.novalis.org/

I got stuck on 387 on guess 2, I’d got to 969 on guess 19 then guess 23 was 982, guess 33 was 991. I can see the link but find it odd that two of my guesses were in the 20s and I think they’re linked too!

I solved Semantle #33 in 36 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 14.61. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #2. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.87. semantle.novalis.org/

I’m still stuck on 966.

Haha, oops.

Phew got it in 60 after such a good start.

Thanks to a clue from @ZiaMcnab

Woohoo!!!

I solved Semantle #33 in 99 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.78. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 59.54 (998/1000).

(I really want to know what word 999 is…

@AngeloMysterioso

Woohoo!!!

I solved Semantle #33 in 99 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.78. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 59.54 (998/1000).

(I really want to know what word 999 is…

You can see all the nearest words by clicking on the link in the purple box at the top of the page. It makes for very interesting, rather mindblowing reading! Although word 999 makes a lot of sense, at least.

I solved Semantle #33 in 243 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 1.80. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #19. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 7.81. semantle.novalis.org/

Finally! I went on quite the journey to get it!

stuck on 938 - someone put me out of my misery!

Finally

I solved Semantle #33 in 143 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.89. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #15. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 45.04 (986/1000). semantle.novalis.org/

Thank you @EdwinsActsOfKindness

Hmmmm - we’ll need a new thread for tomorrow’s

@ElegantlyTouched what have you started?!

Could somebody bail me out a bit please?
I'm going round in circles...

@Heronatemygoldfish I’ll pm you