I thought I was quite a good lateral thinking but clearly not! After my first green at 16, it took me bloody ages to finally get it. I think my cognitive powers are on the slide, I'm too literal and always get stuck thrashing around in synonyms.
I solved Semantle #103 in 111 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 7.51. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 59.36 (997/1000). semantle.com/