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GUESS THE SECRET WORD

Each guess must be a word. Semantle will tell you how semantically similar it
thinks your word is to the secret word. Unlike that other word game, it's not
about the spelling; it's about the meaning. The similarity value comes from
Word2vec. The highest possible similarity is 100 (indicating that the words are
identical and you have won). The lowest in theory is -100, but in practice it's
around -34. By "semantically similar", I mean, roughly "used in the context of
similar words, in a database of news articles."

Secret words may be any part of speech, but will always be single words. It's
tempting to think only of nouns, since that is how normal semantic word-guessing
games work. Don't get caught in the trap! Since our Word2vec data set contains
some proper nouns, guesses are case-sensitive. But I removed all but lower-case
words from the secret word set, and if your word matches the secret word but for
case, you win anyway. So if you want to know if the word is more like nice or
Nice, you can ask about both.

The "Getting close" indicator tells you how close you are --if your word is one
of the 1,000 nearest normal words to the target word, the rank will be given
(1000 is the target word itself). If your word is not one of the nearest 1000,
you're "cold". (By "normal" words", I mean non-capitalized words that appears in
a very large English word list; there are lots of capitalized, misspelled, or
obscure words that might be close but that won't get a ranking. Those get marked
with "????").

You will need more than six guesses. You will probably need dozens of guesses.
There's a new word every day, where a day starts at midnight UTC or 1:00 your
time.


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SEMANTLE - OVERALL STATISTICS

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Wins:0
Win streak:0
Give-ups:0
Did not finish:0
Total guesses across all games:0
Average guesses across all games:0
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Today is puzzle number 780.The nearest word has a similarity of 82.34, the
tenth-nearest has a similarity of 50.05 and the one thousandth nearest word has
a similarity of 28.46.









The nearest word has a similarity of 82.34, the tenth-nearest has a similarity
of 50.05 and the one thousandth nearest word has a similarity of 28.46.

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SEMANTLE - OVERALL STATISTICS

Total games played:0
Wins:0
Win streak:0
Give-ups:0
Did not finish:0
Total guesses across all games:0
Average guesses across all games:0
Total hints used:0

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FAQ

What's new with the format on Semantle Jr?

The biggest change is that we are counting DOWN for the nearest top 1000 words.
Thus, the closest word to the secret word will be at 1. This seems to be more
intuitive for new users. Additionally we have made some design changes. Hope you
like!

When does the new word come out?

Midnight UTC or 1:00 your time

Can I see yesterday's word?

Yes, "component". The words before that were: "expert", "analyze", "stir",
"situation", "automatically", "cream", "bow".

How do I save stats across devices?

To save your stats, login with Twitter (cloud icon above) using the
browser/device you normally use, AND complete a game on this page to start.

Can I play yesterday's game?

Yes, you can now play yesterday's puzzle here.

What words were closest to yesterday's word?

element, components, aspect, ingredient, facet, factor, determinant, elements,
part, integral, in descending order of closeness. More?

Why is the similarity so different from what I was expecting?

I can think of at least four reasons for this.

 1. Your guess, or the target word, is polysemous, and the meaning that is
    similar is rarely used. This is why "leather" is far from "patent."
    Sometimes one usage is simply more popular (among newspaper reporters, which
    is the corpus): "display" is more often a verb than a noun, and its vector
    reflects this.
 2. You capitalized your word. SmartKey and some other keyboards stupidly ignore
    the autocapitalize settings that I have explicitly set in the HTML, and
    there does not seem to be anything I can do about this. I added a checkbox
    to help you avoid this.
 3. Your word and the target word belong to different parts of speech. Sometimes
    this matters a lot. Sometimes it matters only a little.
 4. By "similarity", we really mean "used in similar contexts". The principle
    was articulated by John Rupert Firth, who wrote, "[Y]ou shall know a word by
    the company it keeps." So, "love" and "hate" may seem like opposites, but
    they will often score similarly. The actual opposite of "love" is probably
    something like "Arizona Diamondbacks", or "carburetor".

The data set is what it is -- it's not perfect, and I can't afford enough
computing power (or a big enough corpus) to try to make a better one. The
technique has limitations. Sometimes, they'll bite you and you'll lose.

Can I play more than once per day? Can I play old games?

As far as old games, you can access yesterday's game. You can also play Semantle
Junior, a daily, easier version of Semantle. As of May 31, you can access old
puzzles at the Semantle Archives on The Word Finder. That's about it. We don't
offer any other puzzles on Semantle.com. There are three reasons for this:

 1. Mindless imitation of that other word guessing game.
 2. A game designer I know found a site that let you play as much of the other
    game as you want. He immediately binged, and then got bored, and hasn't
    tweeted about it since.
 3. Another friend of mine said that she considered giving up on one day's
    Semantle, and then realized it would be another 24 hours before she could
    try again. So she persevered and got it.

But you can send your friend a custom game. And maybe your friend will send you
one back. Maybe the word will be flirtatious. Maybe you will conduct an entire
romance over Semantle. I met my wife through Zendo, so it's not impossible.

How did you come up with this?

Prior art. I discovered French Toast about 20 years ago, and immediately knew
that I had to tell Dominus about it. He replied that in fact he and Ranjit had
invented it ten or so years before that, and called it "Plenty Questions". Also,
the Divergent Association Task is the opposite of Semantle.

But I wasn't thinking of French Toast when I invented this. Instead, I was
thinking about Wordle and Worldle and about the dimensionality of data sets. I
considered Filmle, a movie guessing game: You say "The Matrix", it says "Keanu
Reeves has a bacon number of 3 where bacon is the lead actor in the target
film." (and so on for Carrie-Ann Moss, Laurence Fishburne, and Hugo Weaving for
actors at corresponding billings). But I don't care about movies. Too bad,
because IMDB actually has exactly the data that you would need to implement it
in a really easy form. Then I remembered word2vec, and here we are.

How does this work?

Here's an article on word2vec, the underlying technology.

What data set did you use?

GoogleNews-vectors-negative300.bin from late 2021

What does ???? mean?
Unusual word found! This word is not in the list of "normal" words that we use
for the top-1000 list, but it is still similar! (Is it maybe capitalized?)
What about the words "and" or "of"?

No clue why the data set doesn't include them. Perhaps they were just warping
the scores of everything else, since they are used in so many different
contexts?

URL change?

Yes, Semantle is moving to https://semantle.com. If you go to the old site, you
should get redirected to the new site. This will only happen the first time you
visit on a given UTC day (so we don't have to worry about transferring a day's
guesses over). Hopefully, your stats and preferences should also transfer over.
If you don't see your Novalis.org stats, please use this button below to migrate
older stats over from novalis.org.





Who owns Semantle?

Semantle was created by David Turner, and is now part of The Word Finder. The
Word Finder has its own word games and even solvers including an anagram solver
and a Wordle Solver.

What about UK spelling?

The data seems to be normalized to US spelling. Semantle tries to automatically
Americanize your spelling (in the cases where only the American version is in
the data set). Of course, they probably couldn't normalize some words, like
'biscuit', 'lift', or 'pants', so for those you're on your own.

Can I sort my guesses chronologically?

Yes: click on the "#" column header. Click it again to go reverse-chronological.
It will revert to similarity order when you enter a guess (or when you click the
"Similarity" column header).

Why do the nearby word ranks go up instead of down?

I was caught between a rock and a hard place here: on one hand, ranks are
usually descending, but on the other hand, here, the similarities are ascending.
I chose what I thought was the least bad option, but I don't think I would have
been happy either way.

How does my performance compare to others? What is the average number of guesses
across all players?

I don't keep statistics on this. But you are welcome to brag on Twitter, or n
the subreddit. A leaderboard (a) is not in the spirit of the moment, and (b)
likely to lead to unpleasant behavior.

Can I play in other languages?

Yes, Swedish, Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German (or a different German
one), Turkish, Russian, Dutch and Korean . Credit to enigmatix, author of
Cemantix for the collaborate and authentication features.

Can I play with a mob?

As of May 22, you can play on a team using a code to create a room. And with a
mob on Twitch, sometimes.

How do you pick the word of the day?

I grabbed a random list of the "most popular" 5,000 words in English, and
removed anything capitalized or with hyphens, and the word2vec stopwords ("and",
"if"). Then I shuffled it.

Hints?

Yes: click the "Hint" button at the bottom of your list of guesses (to the left
of "Give up"). You'll get a word that's slightly better than one of your best
guesses (unless you've guessed all of the nearest thousand except the target
word).

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