Semantle 8

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As requested! A place to scream, rant, and help each other with this wonderful / bloody awful game (delete as appropriate!).

Semantle can be found here.

Previous thread here.

Oh thanks @Wallawallakoala and @JaneJeffer, those really should have helped me but turns out I’m too dim to find anything other than colds now. And am blanking on any Americanisms at all! 🤦🏻‍♀️

I really wouldn't say it's an Americanism

@ZiaMcnab 528 is the second half of a type of (the thing the higher numbers are). In the global sense.

Oh, sorry @Wallawallakoala I misread your first hint. That’s probably a sign of how useless I am tonight, so I think I’m going to have to give up quite soon 😭

Nooo Zia you got this

Got any Man City fans around @ZiaMcnab?

Oh my god, these are such good hints @Wallawallakoala, @InMySpareTime, @JaneJeffer, what is wrong with me that I can’t get it?!! No Man City fans to be found anywhere useful unfortunately! Don’t suppose being a Leicester City fan would help me?!

@ZiaMcnab how would you describe someone who does 996, 997, etc.?

@janejeffer I can think of several words, but none of them would work as they’re either insulting or routed in jealousy!

If they weren't the answer they wouldn't be able to do those things.

The target word singular is a different part of speech to its plural.

@ZiaMcnab - think about where these might all happen. What do you refer to the someone's doing them as?

I got onto an early roll and then stalled a bit.

I solved Semantle #66 in 46 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 8.17. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #5. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 78.68 (999/1000). semantle.novalis.org/

Nope, 79 guesses since my first green and I was still no closer so had to give up and now hate my stupid self! All your hints were So Good, how did I not get it? Och well, it was a long day and I started pretty late. I’ll do better tomorrow!

Ah @ZiaMcnab I must admit I know that feeling! Sometimes it's just not the day.

Not my day either, I gave up. All of my greens were of no use. Better luck tomorrow!

Today's looks worrying, nearest has a similarly of 56.43 ?! That doesn't seem overly similar!

@Wallawallakoala

Today's looks worrying, nearest has a similarly of 56.43 ?! That doesn't seem overly similar!

90 guesses in and I got one green 47 guesses ago, and that’s just 133/1000.

Went reasonably today! I didn’t get many greens, but the ones I did get seemed to get me there.

I solved Semantle #67 in 44 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 9.27. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #21. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 4.48. semantle.novalis.org/

I solved Semantle #67 in 188 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 16.43. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 45.03 (994/1000). semantle.novalis.org/

Another death by greens. 45 of the buggers before I got the answer.

178 guesses!

42 greens. Only 1 was any use - #956! All the higher greens got me nowhere.

I solved Semantle #67 in 106 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.89. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #14. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 15.26. semantle.novalis.org/

And back to sleep I go.

Currently got myself stuck in a trail of higher colds and trying to make the leap to green but trying to work out how, or whether to go completely random.

Sheer fluke that my first green was a goodun..very pleased with myself.

I solved Semantle #67 in 55 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 10.83. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #23. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 25.46. semantle.novalis.org/

I solved Semantle #67 in 82 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 12.29. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #42. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 9.06. semantle.novalis.org/

little bit of help from google