Took me 62 guesses to get a green, then another 20 to get 981 (by which point I was just entering random things I could see around me/ about my day) and then the very next guess, which I expected to be a step along the way, was the target.
I seem to have missed the theme entirely. My only other green was 682 which should really have been helpful, except I was thinking of a different sort.
I solved Semantle #117 in 82 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 6.98. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #62. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 47.98 (981/1000). semantle.com/