probably put a couple hundred guesses into this fella during a boring work meeting and got no higher than 566 (or so) (my only “getting warmer@ guess also)
then had another go at home and got it in 8
have often found this with cryptic crosswords, where a change of scene will reshuffle the neurons and offer new insights
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Thursday, 10 February 2022 07:56 (two years ago) link
this game is impossible and makes no sense
― flopson, Thursday, 10 February 2022 09:11 (two years ago) link
stuck on 950/1000 and can't think where to go next, have free-associated my head off.
― ledge, Thursday, 10 February 2022 09:34 (two years ago) link
I've got a few 'warm' words, highest is 872/1000 and I'm also stuck. Might go back to it.
― kinder, Thursday, 10 February 2022 09:35 (two years ago) link
I've guessed 386 words ;_;
― kinder, Thursday, 10 February 2022 09:45 (two years ago) link
Oh God I just hit on it!
― kinder, Thursday, 10 February 2022 09:51 (two years ago) link
My highest guess beforehand kind of had two relevant meanings to it
― kinder, Thursday, 10 February 2022 09:53 (two years ago) link
Got there in 70.
― hamicle, Thursday, 10 February 2022 10:24 (two years ago) link
gave up, this game is too hard for me
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 10 February 2022 11:27 (two years ago) link
ok someone give me a hint > 950 (this would be a good feature to add!)
― ledge, Thursday, 10 February 2022 11:47 (two years ago) link
I’m at 936/1000, which is so annoyingly close but I’m totally stuck.
Yesterday’s wasn’t so bad, got it in 82
― Roz, Thursday, 10 February 2022 11:58 (two years ago) link
This game is maddening.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 10 February 2022 12:37 (two years ago) link
i got stuck at 673/1000 with domains which i thought was close, but that was the first one i've done, and after giving up and seeing the answer, i realise now i was miles from the secret word. the progress bars gave me false hope. can't see that i'd have guessed.
― .xlsm (P. Flick), Thursday, 10 February 2022 13:01 (two years ago) link
I didn't even get into the 900s. I browsed a few wiki pages for some of the words I had which gave me inspiration. No it's not cheating... (Most of the key terms I'd already tried).Also I think it's key to try different variations of words e.g. (not related to today's as far as I know) literate, literature, literal. Some are cold when others are warm.
― kinder, Thursday, 10 February 2022 13:25 (two years ago) link
I gave up after about 350 guesses. I can obviously see the connection between the answer and my closest guess license but i'm not sure how i could have got from one to the other without external inspiration - and I'd already tried all the nearest synonyms - or other than sheer luck guess one of the closer words. Still, I'll come back tomorrow for more punishment.
― ledge, Thursday, 10 February 2022 14:02 (two years ago) link
first time ever getting it today after playing for about a week... in 69 guesses O_o
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 10 February 2022 14:04 (two years ago) link
of my guesses, the one deemed literally furthest away make seems imo like it should be closer to the secret word? but im not (yet) a computer so idk ~
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 10 February 2022 14:09 (two years ago) link
139 today. early guesses in the 10s were all small things -- pea, corn, dust -- which led me astray.
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 10 February 2022 14:26 (two years ago) link
johnny fever, i thought the same thing. i hit on manufacture which was one of my warmest guesses, but your word got nowhere.
― kinder, Thursday, 10 February 2022 16:06 (two years ago) link
I'll get as far as 30 guesses before I can't resist and give up ha.
― Ste, Thursday, 10 February 2022 19:10 (two years ago) link
i like the concept but the space is too vast and the goal too opaque. restricting to 5 letter nouns might help
― flopson, Thursday, 10 February 2022 19:29 (two years ago) link
makes me think a fun application of GPT-3 would be to play 21 questions with it
― flopson, Thursday, 10 February 2022 19:30 (two years ago) link
I like the idea of the long game, chipping away at it throughout random times in the day though.
― Ste, Thursday, 10 February 2022 21:13 (two years ago) link
Today turned out to be brutally difficult -- it's just stuck off in its own arm of the semantic space. Sorry about that. Maybe tomorrow will be easier. Or maybe not!
― David Turner (semantle), Thursday, 10 February 2022 21:31 (two years ago) link
I still have yesterday's loaded and haven't solved it yet. Now worried about trying today's.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 10 February 2022 21:38 (two years ago) link
What's happening to the Similarity column? It's all out of order. I can't tell what's working and what's not.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 10 February 2022 21:47 (two years ago) link
I’m seeing similarity sorted properly, but with your most recent guess at the top, which is a very welcome feature!
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 10 February 2022 22:35 (two years ago) link
Wow, I don't have the patience to come up with 600-800 words, plus I find that my brain gets stuck and just keeps coming up with similar words to the ones I've already guessed, even where they only score like 25. I literally don't think I ever would have gotten today's.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 February 2022 22:48 (two years ago) link
spoiler alert: the word "penis" is slightly closer than the word "university" and slightly further away than "paint."
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 February 2022 22:51 (two years ago) link
LOL Wondering if starting with a seed word - say, the 1000th-closest word - would make the game more appealing. I’m fascinated by it & can’t wait for the next drop (after having pulled the plug on today’s) but the early stages are a bit of a slog tbh. I didn’t like the idea of hints, but maybe just a wee one? Say, calling for a hint gets you the word that’s one closer from the target word vs your highest guess, like if you had word 950 and you called for a hint you would get word 951. (And if you were stuck on 999, it would give you 998.) One per day.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 10 February 2022 23:10 (two years ago) link
I got it in 7.
well, at least that was the point I launched my computer over the balcony and put on Peacemaker instead
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 February 2022 23:12 (two years ago) link
86 today. I find there's a certain point when I just start entering words I know aren't going to be right.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 11 February 2022 00:19 (two years ago) link
gave up yesterday. not sure i ever would have gotten it. even after i knew the answer, it was hard to come up with similar words.
then got super lucky today and got it in 21.
― brisk money (lukas), Friday, 11 February 2022 04:48 (two years ago) link
84 today, gave up yesterday. I like the new addition of numbering the words and having the most recent guess come up at the top!
― Roz, Friday, 11 February 2022 06:51 (two years ago) link
Think I'm getting the hang of this, took me 80.
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Friday, 11 February 2022 07:46 (two years ago) link
Just trying today. I have the 'guess number' but the similarity isn't sorted by highest for me (Firefox). So it's not sorted by either similarity or guess number.
― kinder, Friday, 11 February 2022 08:50 (two years ago) link
oh sorry I get it. Most recent goes at the top no matter what but everything else sorted by similarity.
― kinder, Friday, 11 February 2022 08:51 (two years ago) link
Got it in 60 - are we all getting the hang of it or was it just easier today?
― ledge, Friday, 11 February 2022 08:56 (two years ago) link
136 for me, easier than yesterday but think I need more practice.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 11 February 2022 08:59 (two years ago) link
118!Yesterday's was more 'nebulous' I think - has connotations of law, science, application... bit more straightforward word today.
― kinder, Friday, 11 February 2022 09:08 (two years ago) link
Mr kinder got it in 33
― kinder, Friday, 11 February 2022 09:13 (two years ago) link
What is the strategy to adopt here? Is there a number of overall concepts that can be tried with a view to narrowing it down? I'm thinking of Roget's Thesaurus which is divided into six classes - existence, relation, quantity etc.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 11 February 2022 09:18 (two years ago) link
Had to give up yesterday and today. I'm impressed by those who got them both -- I doubt I would have even if I'd kept guessing for another hour. The possibilities are just so vast, frustration sets in after 100 cold guesses...
― Sam Weller, Friday, 11 February 2022 09:52 (two years ago) link
Is there a number of overall concepts that can be tried with a view to narrowing it down? I'm thinking of Roget's Thesaurus which is divided into six classes - existence, relation, quantity etc.
I tried it with the thesaurus subcategories that today's word appears in and they are all cold - I would guess they're too far away vertically, you need words that are more synonymous rather than more general, so it's just a case of blundering around till you hit on something.
― ledge, Friday, 11 February 2022 10:35 (two years ago) link
it's further complicated by the fact that, apparently, sometimes a direct synonym of one sense of the word can be cold.
― ledge, Friday, 11 February 2022 10:39 (two years ago) link
Got today's in 80. I don't think I'll ever be on super-low scores, as my tactic is to get as many data points as I can, rather than hoping to get lucky/be precise in a few guesses. Yesterday's was the first that made me give up, I got to 990 with INVENTIONS but couldn't make the leap.
I do like the new ordering system, but it was very confusing at first. How about adding a line space between the most recent guess and previous guesses?
― emil.y, Friday, 11 February 2022 11:08 (two years ago) link
42 today, was in the hundreds for the last couple
― devvvine, Friday, 11 February 2022 11:21 (two years ago) link
Found today's in 110 after skirting around it for ages.
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 11 February 2022 11:31 (two years ago) link
I've been struggling with this for a few days, but today I got it in 36.
My first non-cold guess was #14 (758/1000). I then did 20 more cold guesses before getting 943/1000 on #35. And then next guess I got it. Half satisfying, half a shrug of randomness.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 11 February 2022 12:01 (two years ago) link
70 today, felt like i steadily advanced on the target for oncd - previous goes have seen some pretty wild & uneven lurches towards the answer
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Friday, 11 February 2022 12:10 (two years ago) link