What a devious tool! Also, it would take insanely long to figure out how your own word associations related to what the computer has connected, and I don't really want to learn and internalize the computer's patterns.
In short, what's mine is mine. I don't want that thing spying on me and collecting information, and I don't want to use my mind to collect information about it.
Sorry, I'm raving... after following MadisonMan's link (in last night's café):
https://semantle.novalis.org/
A little harder than wordle. Explanation for how it works at the website.By the way, we have a family word game — invented by my son John (I must have described before on this blog, but where?) — that's a bit like Semantle but more fun and less devious.
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I have not yet -- after 3 days -- gotten close to a word before giving up. Per the website, it seems like the "relationship" in the word choices comes from written news articles, so I try to guess with that in mind. But there are so many variables to consider how words might relate -- location, time, season -- that I've gotten nowhere fast.
It seems an insane waste of time to me.
I'm thinking of a word. Guess. Good luck!
This is an obvious method of gathering data on your preferences for sale to advertisers. I google Mahindra tractors (fine machines but of zero use to me) and browse for a few minutes every couple of weeks, just to make sure I get tractor ads online rather than suggestions for new blogs to read.
I suggest playing Semantle to lose. Try to get as far from the word sought as possible. Maybe answer with "casino" every few tries. See where that gets you in the game, and enjoy the ads from Vegas in your sidebar.
I tried it, too, and found it to be ridiculous. I agree with Temujin’s assessment. Perhaps this creator is looking to ride Wordle’s coattails to an NYT buy.
I won't spoil today's, which I only know because I gave up, but the closest guesses, per the score, were not what the closest words would have been in my mind. Had they had the one that I thought was closest, after I saw the word, as the highest score, I likely would have gotten it fairly easily. As it was, I was sent off on a pointless tangent. Now that I see that it has to do with analysis of news articles, I am even less interested.
Semantle Shemantle
I won't spoil it either, but I entered 100 guesses, and got as close as 980/1000 before giving up. I did not find it enjoyable. Will not play again.
Absurdle has been kinda fun. Meant to work the same as Wordle but the computer cheats.
The shortest path through the thesaurus from suspicious to happy is
suspicious doubtful apprehensive expectant ready happy
Thesaurus entries aren't synonyms mostly, but rather the words as used in changing stories.
Furze and gorse are the only exact synonyms in English.
"This is an obvious method of gathering data on your preferences for sale to advertisers."
The advertisers don't know me. Today, I was reading the Washington Post, which I read every day, and the ads I got were for men's T-shirts (just plain black, white, and gray things) and for a protective device worn by race car drivers (which I clicked through just out of curiosity about what I was looking at (I thought maybe a strange sort of child seat for a bike)).
I like Absurdle, it's like trying to nail jello to a wall though, I had it down to one letter, but it dodged me twice. Note that I didn't use my old favorite as a first guess, I have been switching up my first guess lately.
Absurdle 6/∞
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⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜
🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩
🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Like everything else popular and entertaining, someone's gotta wreck it...
I'm back to Countdown as soon as Rachel is back. I miss the maths puzzles...
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In short, what's mine is mine. I don't want that thing spying on me and collecting information...
Too late. Somewhere there is an AI reading your blog, working to comprehend your thought processes, and slowly going the way of HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey
I got today’s Semantle in 37 guesses. Absurdleis also fun. I feel that I have solved Wordle for all intents and purposes.
why not letterboxed ? connect 12 letters around perimeter [within 2 words optimally]
The real import of this story is that "progressives" have finally run up against an issue that normal people are willing to defend: their children.
Oh let's be clear here. They weren't protesting masks or the teaching of CRT to Elementary School Children.
It was when high-achieving Asian-American children might not be admitted to the school with the AP classes that this all blew up.
My cousin turned me on to Quordle three days ago. It's like Wordle, but you are entering the same word to try to guess four different words in a maximum of nine tries. There is one official word per day, but you can also play an unlimited number of practice games, and it also tracks those practice stats. In the Daily game, I'm 3-0 with an 8 all three days. In the practice games, I'm 40-7 with a max streak of 23; eleven 7's, twenty 8's, nine 9's. I just missed a 6 on the last game; got three words in 5 and guessed SHOUT on the fourth word on #6, but it was SPOUT, so another 7. It's tougher than Wordle and a different beast entirely.
www.quordle.com
I should clarify: There is one official GAME per day, which has four words to guess.
That was fun. I got today's but it took 77 guesses. LOL.
"I started to play Semantle but found it way too revealing of the patterns of my own mind."
What a devious tool!...I don't want that thing spying on me and collecting information...
Golly. Was the word of the day “paranoia”?
If you’re seriously concerned about this sort of thing, I hear tin hats can be quite effective.
"Golly. Was the word of the day “paranoia”?"
You think it's paranoid to suspect that websites are gathering information about you, to be used for their purposes?
"It was when high-achieving Asian-American children might not be admitted to the school with the AP classes that this all blew up."
Lowell isn't the only school with AP classes. It's the test-based admissions school that Asian immigrants go to, because whites aren't that interested. Whites leave SF or pay for private but have no interest in Lowell. This is a pattern you can see everywhere--in the 8 specialized high schools, in Thomas Jefferson HS in VA, and so on.
But yeah, that's why. Also the math policy, which would affect Asian students throughout SF.
"That was fun. I got today's but it took 77 guesses. LOL."
Me too! I loved it, and I'm glad Ann mentioned it. Fun game. And it wasn't random or computer generated. Very logical.
Also, Ann, your blog has the "I'm not a robot" captcha checker that is almost certainly used to help computers identify images for some kind of advertising somewhere.
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